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There are a few errors in the paper. "HCI" is not defined. Figure 2 refers to independent and dependant variables for an observational study but the text under "Study Design" says it should be "contributor" or "outcome".

The software has zero releases. This doesn't allow comments w.r.t. versions and possible bug fixes.

I like the concept. Adding a graphic representing the model would help make it interpretable by non-numerate stakeholders, such as management. Or politicians (!)

It would be helpful to be able to make some statement on future support....is this going to be around for a few years?

Additional comment:

After regulatory capture, it is not clear to me that any subsystem reviews are valid.

MCAS is not the only subsystem revised (or introduced) for the MAX series.

All "FAA" so-called reviews need to be inspected for validity. (Quotes because Boeing not the FAA did the reviews). And recertification will take months.

You are not clearly questioning me or the other responder.

What concerns me is the evidence of regulatory capture. Boeing was telling the FAA what the approval schedule was going to be. And the FAA sucked it up. Instead of saying "our review capacity is x pages per day. You will receive our reviews on such-and-such a date."

(And yes I am oversimplifying.)

ESC key? My fingers are trained to use ctrl-[ since it's quicker than moving a hand.

Except some keyboards have different locations for ctrl-....

There are occasional readable pieces in the press...

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-rejected-by-a-ro...

TLDR: ML is like a credit score

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/andrew_fentem_on_ai...

(Granted the Register is not msm).

TLDR: AI is oversold and surprisingly fragile.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/02/mathematics_behind_...

TLDR: The progression from math to AI.

"...the vulnerability was initially identified in 1990..."

STIG scans are automated and the basis for identifying a finding is sometimes a lot different from the name. You have to decode the scanners script and compare the description with the code. In this case it is likely a "medium" finding that an email service is running and may be a risk. "May" and not "is". It requires a manual evaluation to confirm.

My favorite is the vulnerability identified as [redacted] which merely identifies the operating system as Windows. It is a High severity.

Could you please translate that second example?

> If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by self-learning algorithms, are the capacities of indefinite potential then also reconfigured when it comes to evading this very systematization ...

It just doesn't parse for me. What is doing the evading?

Butler Lampson's talk at Cambridge in 2015

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wheeler/butler-lampson/ind...

No matter how fast the hardware boys make the machine, the software boys will piss the performance away.

Operations is a thing, and it's harder than coding. Especially with a customer on the phone.

Your customer's expectations will always exceed the functionality you have provided. Get over it.

All the biggest mistakes occur in the first days of a new project.

Testing shows the presence of bugs, not their absence. If you think your TDD (test-driven development) method produces correct code, then you will be disappointed.

Nobody reads Brooks anymore.

About .2 bits/sec. Not usable unless parallelized millions of times.

Backing up 20 DEC RA81 disk drives with 120MB capacity 9-track tapes. The RA81s were 454MB each.

A 20-node VAXcluster using workstations and 10base5 (coax) Ethernet.

StorageTek anything.

Real laser printers that could set the paper on fire. (DEC LN01s that were rebranded Xerox units)

PL/I

Bliss-32

Microfiche of the VAX/VMS source

You may want to investigate i2p which is resistant to traffic analysis.

And does not run 100%bandwidth all day and all night.

I moved into a new apartment last year, served by a district energy utility. My winter electric heating bill went from $180/month to $40/month.

And now I get AC too. At a similar cost.

Now, the new apartment has half the window area and is a bit closer to the ground. But still that is a huge saving.

The utility's infrastructure serves about 25 blocks in a rapidly developing area. They use the "geothermal" constant ground temperature and natural gas heating.

They've been doing this for about 6 years.

Meh. This list is for entertainment purposes.

If you want some actual advice, read Rechtin and Meier

"The Art of Systems Architecting" ISBN-13: 978-1420079135

Appendix A Heuristics for systems-level Architecting. While the issues of mutual inconsistent advice remain, at least the rest of the book gives enough guidance in navigation through the political technical and economic issues of systems engineering.

Note: systems engineering not software engineering.

(I have a first edition and haven't seen the current 3rd edition.)

I remember APL as part of learning how to program at my high school in the early 1970s.

I could touch type APL on the IBM 2741 text terminals (basically Selectric typewriters with serial interface.). And could compose simpler APL codes at that speed.

The principal weakness was APLs narrow view of data type. Text was a 3rd class citizen. There was no substring searching in the early IBM implementation. As a result one had to:

  Form a cross product of text with the substring, testing for equality of each character

  Rotate each row of the cross product by n steps where n is the row number

  (This aligns the tests along columns)

  Perform AND reduction along the columns to find the full matches.

None of this was intuitive and no I didn't invent that method.