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Data is the specification: @kristjankorjus. Describes a method for solving complex problems at #tdconf19
Like autopiloted robots fleets
@kristjankorjus Use the vocabulary of machine learning, even when you aren't using machine learning (yet).
@kristjankorjus #tdconf19
A manifesto for solving complex problems that you can't full understand or specify: Dataisspec.github.io

@kristjankorjus #tdconf19
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Jessica Joy Kerr
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"Because of the pace that the market is moving, all of our application needs to be getting better all the time"
so the more of our app is SaaS, the less we have to keep constantly improving.
~ @zackkanter
Your tech debt is piling up without you doing anything.
Move as much of it off your balance sheet as you can.
#SaaS
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When the system gets complicated, we want to avoid touching something for fear it'll break.
Touch things as much as possible, so they break now instead of later, all at once.
~ @zackkanter
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Jessica Joy Kerr
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It is time to tackle the CSS Flexbox specification.
drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox-1/…
Motivating case: I have a layout problem. I'm tracking the movement of some processing (analysis of repositories) from Planned, to Going, to Finished, in three columns.

(this describes the "why" of that: blog.atomist.com/whats-lurking/)
Currently, I laid this out in divs using 'display: inline-block; width: 30%' because I am familiar with inline-block.
This looks fine when the analysis is in process:

github.com/atomist/sdm-pa… three columns all have stuff in them
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Jessica Joy Kerr
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Some tweets brought to you from a business magazine that someone left on the airplane.

There’s an interview about why out systems fail, “the Paradox of Progress”
András Tilcsik says there are two properties of modern systems that lead to surprising + high-consequence failures.

One is tight coupling, or lack of slack. “If something goes wrong, you won’t have much time to figure out what’s happening and make adjustments.”
Another is complexity: the system is a web, not a line. “Much of what goes on in these systems is invisible to the naked eye.”

Parts “interact in hidden and unexpected ways.”
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Dave Guarino
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I've been working on a piece of writing for some time, working title — "Start Where You Are"

The thrust: people working in complex problem spaces like government sometimes err tactically in making a dependency that others do some change before getting to work, producing value.
Put more positively:

I believe very strongly in starting by creating value in *some* way, shape, or form before ever even asking someone for their time and attention.

To most of the people working on complex problems, hearing someone's idea is a poor use of their time.
"Starting where you are", to me, means accepting that if you are an outsider, or without much power, in a system then the only winning first move is to create some value without requiring anyone else to do anything first.
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Emeka Azuka Okoye
@EmekaOkoye
This is a thread on the list of #technologies #Nigeria should start taking seriously if she has the ambition of becoming number 1 in #Africa and maybe among the top 30 countries in the world as we enter the 4th Industrial Revolution.
#Industry40 #stem #tech 1/7
1. Mobile Internet fifth-generation (5G)
2. Artificial Intelligence (#ai), machine learning (#ml), deep learning (#dl)
3. Virtual and Augmented reality (#vr,#ar)
4. Cloud technology (#cloud)
5. Internet of Things (#iot)
6. Advanced robotics (#robots)
7. Biometric technology

2/7
8. 3D printing
9. Smart Spaces: Smart Cities (#SmartCities), Smart Homes (#smarthomes)
10. Blockchain (#blockchain)
11. Quantum computing
12. Autonomous things: fully autonomous vehicles
13. Nanotechnology (#nanotechnology )

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🌎🌵the 🚀🌌cosmist 💣✊insurrection 🏴🚩
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The brain is so amazing—it literally encodes information so many different ways—chemically, DNA expression, electrically, physically (neuronal ties), neuronally (orientation), locationally, and as firing patterns.
What’s more, it processes information directly electrically, & chemically, and indirectly thru firing patterns, self-excitation & thru sensoriomotor loops
Like the salient feature isn’t just that the brain uses parallel computation rather than digital, but that it has several complementary parallel TYPES of computation occurring simultaneously, AND is part of several dynamic systems (body/senses/environment/tools/language/society)
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Dr Sheree Bekker
@shereebekker
[Thread: let's talk the #ThaiCaveResue, intervention research, and #complexity]

Struck by how Musk's mini submarine - “made of rocket parts and named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team”- is a teachable moment for intervention research in #complex settings

Let's take a look at why, using complexity theory.

Musk's rocket is indeed highly sophisticated and built through 'rocket science', yet on-site it has been deemed ill-suited for this complex rescue mission

How is this so and what can we learn from it?
First: good graphics here of what this labyrinth cave complex looks like, and what the rescue entails (or, at the very least, the *known* problems the rescue mission is likely to encounter)

news.com.au/world/asia/how…
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Tiago Forte
@fortelabs
1/ I'm speechless. I've discovered a complete knowledge and project mgmt methodology first developed decades ago w/ stunning parallels to Bldg a Second Brain framework developed completely independently
2/ It's called Structured Writing, summarized in this 1993 excerpt by Robert E. Horn, from journal Performance and Instruction web.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/topic…
3/ Horn is a well-known political scientist/professor who developed methods for info mapping, visual languages, writing technical documentation. Structured Writing dates to 1965 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E.…
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Davos Man
@TheDavosMan
Just got to Davos. Ready to fill the leadership vacuum with big ideas. My focus will be on privilege and women. Only going to #womanels #methree. Also, my alligator-skin boots got snow on them, anyone have a blow drier or an FT I can use to dry them off?
Thread 1/n: Small ideas feel big when I'm in my Gulfstream, so here it goes: We have to innovate on innovation. The 7th industrial revolution disrupts AND displaces. Artificial intelligence and blockchain can only solve resurgent populism with #compassion.
2/n We elites are critical to making this debate glocalized. Thought leadership also involves thought stewardship. Communities form the core of our economies. Blue collar workers must be re-conceived as #newcollar workers. Code is key.
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