Be careful what you’re measuring, because that’s what you’ll get. Make sure it’s what you actually want.
Bruce Schneier
7 links for the week ahead
- Anthropic (2024-07-16). Claude Android App is available.
- Mark Carrigan (2024-07-17). The Risk to Authorship When Using GenAI for Notetaking.
- Donald Clark (2024-07-02). Mary Meaker’s Tech Report ‘AI & Universities’ Is Right but Delusional.
- Emily Drabinsky (2024-07-15). The Library Is a Commons.
- Gary Marcus (2024-07-19). Don’t Look Up: The Massive Microsoft/Crowdstrike Data Outage Is a Huge Wake-Up Call.
- Bruce Schneier (2024-07-15). Hacking Scientific Citations.
- xkcd’s What If? (2024-07-09). What if You Tried to Print Wikipedia?.
Complex systems fail
Cook, R. (2018). How complex systems fail.
- Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems. All of the interesting systems (e.g. transportation, healthcare, power generation) are inherently and unavoidably hazardous by their own nature. The frequency of hazard exposure can sometimes be changed but the processes involved in the system are themselves intrinsically and irreducibly hazardous…
Fire in space
NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day (2021). Fire in Space.
