Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk
tuning global tech pulse toward int'l civic data-informed products, starting in Peace Corps in Tanzania & Liberia. I am [mimeograph] years old. thadk.net Cambridge, MA - Washington, DC Joined March 2007-
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@simonsarris Demand avoidance seems like a helpful related frame to "complexity" and many-system-drag in this context.
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Reading “Educating the Reflective Practitioner” (1988) about the then new pressure & how to help professions (medical,edu,architects,policy) better cope w nebulosity in work from @meaningness book recs. Keep thinking about how this dynamic could’ve grown crisis amidst automation
🧵 “Complex language requires shared maintenance” reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)
Reading “Educating the Reflective Practitioner” (1988) about the then new pressure & how to help professions (medical,edu,architects,policy) better cope w nebulosity in work from @meaningness book recs. Keep thinking about how this dynamic could’ve grown crisis amidst automation
Reflecting back on @brightball pointless story points piece about Product Development Flow (2009) now considering trying to implement bits of the book’s queue wisdom in Factorio game cc: @patio11
I just read this article and all I could think was... wait. You didn't already do this? You were serializing everything? Of course they were. Software engineers serialize high-latency API calls. Same thing. It's the default.
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This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:
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Flocking clocks 😅: Only magenta clock advances time on its own, others just show average time of neighbors Source code: editor.p5js.org/anvaka/full/6M…
@gordonbrander I love this 2006 piece on how employer-sponsored apprenticeships may work differently and less well for women than school-based opportunities due to the turns of life. So tacit knowledge reproduction seems likely to be gendered by our institutions, too. dropbox.com/scl/fi/c15mfe1…
@yishan @BWalkerTTAGGG I heard that the smell of the CO2 scrubbers reagents on subs never leave the sailors clothes even long after coming back on shore.
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A lot has happened since the launch of the first HOT Tasking Manager in 2011... Today, we celebrate our first 500,000 mappers on the platform, almost the same as the population of Cape Verde! 😮 🎉 Have you mapped today? buff.ly/4e0cEZQ
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BREAKING: The PMC COVID Forecasting Model officially sunsets Biobot. Biobot has not reported public data in 3 weeks, during the height of the surge. They will be downgraded to 0% weight in Monday's case estimation model. CDC data will now account for 100% of case estimation.
@gcsolaroli @cortesi Fair enough, I was intending to point a bit more to the inner retweet and rest of thread about continuous construction of the continuous measure.
@mvs202 @mtamaryland @MDOTMTAHolly 3 way responsibility, rather
@JoeDavis522 @mvs202 @mtamaryland @MDOTMTAHolly Thanks Joe, when I pass Garrett Park, looks great now! I was waiting in Harpers Ferry station a few wk ago & a local birdwatcher was lamenting underpass + collapsed fence condition to the ranger. It might also benefit by TLC from MARC if able by 3 by responsibility w US NPS&CSX🌳
@_StevenFan Inventing on Principle (2012) still worth a rewatch, “don’t mode me in” T’s. youtu.be/PUv66718DII?t=…
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Why concepts are (probably) vectors (cell.com/trends/cogniti…)
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Lead poisoning hurts kids’ cognitive development. Lead poisoning is also widespread across many low & middle income countries. However, we don’t know each local source. We can learn, discover & eradicate Like by protecting turmeric in 🇧🇩
Yes, lead exposure is bad/widespread. But where's it coming from? New CGD paper from @rachelbnfield & @RoryTodd12 cgdev.org/blog/whats-cau…
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What happens when a government decides that their banking sector needs proper competition, and mandate a new payment method that is: 1. Instant (unlike bank transfers) 2. Free for consumers, very very cheap for merchants (unlike credit cards) What Brazil did with Pix:
@PartyArbeiter @GergelyOrosz @zoka64620384 As a matter of fact, today, 43% of financial transactions are made with Pix
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Pretty cool analysis of the cultural evolution of filled pasta (link.springer.com/article/10.100…). Gotta try them all...
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