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cc #9 organizational cybernetics (staging)

by Francis Tseng
35 blocks • a day ago

Jay Galbraith is considered the world's leading expert on global organization design. His 40 years of experience working with small to large firms in numerous industries around the world is unmatched in today's management consulting field.

Jay Galbraith - White Papers

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

Reverting to traditional handicrafts is one way to sabotage the throwaway society. In this article, we discuss another possibility: the design of modular consumer products, whose parts and components could be re-used for the design of other products.

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 months ago

In an IBM lab in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., a circuit board sits at the bottom of a large tub cooled to temperatures colder than those of outer space. Shiny, solderlike zigzags of niobium cover the board, connecting 16 unusual computing elements.

Chemistry is quantum computing's killer...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

Make social simulations on interactive maps with Javascript! - noncomputable/AgentMaps

noncomputable/AgentMaps

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a month ago

My new favorite cartoon character is a white-collar red panda with anger issues. Her name is Aggretsuko, and she's a young Japanese "office associate" who leaps, tail wagging, into her first job, only to suffer countless slights at the hands of her co-workers.

How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

We've created images that reliably fool neural network classifiers when viewed from varied scales and perspectives. This challenges a claim from last week that self-driving cars would be hard to trick maliciously since they capture images from multiple scales, angles, perspectives, and the like. This innocuous kitten photo, printed on

Robust Adversarial Examples

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

UPDATE: The broken link to the source code has been fixed! This video shows the result of BRIEF, a feature point descriptor relying on binary strings computed using simple intensity difference tests, developed by Michael Calonder et al. in CVLAB - EPFL. The software was developed by Eray Molla et al.

BRIEF Based Planar Object Detector

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 7 months ago

crossbeam - Support for parallelism and low-level concurrency in Rust

crossbeam-rs/crossbeam

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 7 months ago

Here's a screen recording of my Node Based User Interface component written in Swift targeting iOS. It differs from my previous versions of similar components in that the logic is completely separated from the display code and it accepts injectable renderers.

Swift / iOS Node Based User Interface

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 years ago

The halcyon days of the mid-20th century, when researchers at the (in?)famous Dartmouth summer school on AI dreamed of creating the first intelligent machine, seem so far away. Worries about the societal impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) are on the rise. Recent pronouncements from tech gurus like Elon Musk and Bill Gates have taken on a dramatically dystopian edge.

Is effective regulation of AI possible?...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 8 months ago

A recruitment tool is an advertising method that aids in creating interest in and getting people for a typically political organization. Historically recruitment tools have often taken the form of posters or films, though in modern times recruitment tools have taken the form of advergame video games.

Recruitment tool - Wikipedia

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

The consequences of climate change are emerging in more visible and more disastrous ways. From climate refugees to diminishing habitats, it seems as though just about every species on planet Earth is suffering as a result of our changing climate.

Marine food webs are on the brink of...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a month ago

In an excerpt from his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel laureate recalls how an inwardly focused forecasting approach once led him astray, and why an external perspective can help executives do better. In the 1970s, I convinced some officials in the Israeli Ministry of Education of the need for a curriculum to teach judgment and decision making in high schools.

Daniel Kahneman: Beware the 'inside...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated a year ago

The true significance that needs to be seen here is the far reaching power of automated propaganda in our modern world, how zealously it is being used to try influencing political discourse, the fact that this influence is predominantly foreign in origin, and especially the fact that this propaganda is aimed at discourse unfavorable to the President.

The Official White House Resistance

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 years ago

The tyranny of small decisions is a phenomenon explored in an essay of the same name, published in 1966 by the American economist Alfred E. Kahn. The article describes a situation where a number of decisions, individually small in size and time perspective, cumulatively result in an outcome which is not optimal nor desired.

Tyranny of small decisions - Wikipedia

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 years ago

Trenton, New Jersey, isn't the industrial powerhouse it once was, even if the slogan "Trenton Makes, the World Takes," first installed in 1935, still stands in 10-foot-tall letters across a bridge that spans the Delaware River to Pennsylvania. But a few minutes east of town, inside a warehouse belonging to Amazon, there are signs of another industrial transformation.

At Amazon Warehouses, Humans and...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 9 months ago

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Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 5 months ago

Convenient graphical user interface (GUI) system dynamics software developed into user friendly versions by the 1990s and have been applied to diverse systems. SD models solve the problem of simultaneity (mutual causation) by updating all variables in small time increments with positive and negative feedbacks and time delays structuring the interactions and control.

System dynamics - Wikipedia, the free...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 years ago

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Delegative democracy - Wikipedia

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 years ago

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