Process of finding the "best" mix of state-variables. Optimization, optimisation, or optimality may also refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_(disambiguation) (more)

Cedric Chin: Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think. Goodhart’s Law is a famous adage that goes “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” (more)

Cedric Chin: Becoming Data Driven in Business: A Series. What does it mean to be data driven in business? Most people think being data driven means looking at charts on a daily basis. Or they attempt to use data in their orgs, and then fall into one of the many traps that come with the territory. How do you actually get good at using data for your operations? And how do you build the mindset and the organisational capabilities necessary to do it? (more)

How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month. On April 4 (1947), the results came back from the U.S. Army Medical School Laboratory in Washington. All three were confirmed cases of smallpox, which had not been seen in New York City since before the war. (compare to COVID-19) (more)

Cedric Chin: The Amazon Weekly Business Review. You may need to read the previous essay — titled Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles — to get the most out of this one. That essay lays out the worldview that backs the WBR. Do that first. 2024-01-08-ChinBecomingDataDrivenFromFirstPrinciples (more)

Cedric Chin: Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles. I’ve increasingly come to appreciate that you must earn the right to criticise becoming data driven. (more)

a type of diagram - most often intersecting circles to represent sets (more)

Suddenly I've noticed WikiGraph embeds not working on Firefox (android). Another stop on the WikiGraph JavaScript Widgets Vs Browser Security saga. (more)

a little more detailed than a 2x2

Two-by-two matrix, useful in lots of SenseMaking (more)

concept from James Scott (more)

where we are Living In Chicago Suburbs starting Aug'2009, in Illinois (more)

aka Barrington, IL

Tools-for-thought junkie (more)

note-taking app https://www.craft.do/ $8/mo (more)

mindmapping tool for VisionPro/Mac/ipad/ios. https://www.mindnode.com/ (more)

Apple Computer mixed reality headset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Vision_Pro https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro (more)

Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986[2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI,where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy (more)

Dan Davies: me versus the scatterplots... bugging me for a while... This week - economic geography. I probably shouldn’t write off entire fields of enquiry en bloc; even lab-based experimental economics probably has some things in it which generated reproducible results. But econ-geog really seems to me to generate a lot of amazingly simplistic takes, usually involving the creation of scatterplots. (more)

Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) guaranteed builders that qualified veterans could buy housing for a fraction of rental costs. Under Levitt & Sons, Levittown housing would maintain racial (rascist) covenants that excluded non-Caucasian homeowners. The first Levittown house sold for $7,900 and in a short period of time 17,000 units were sold, providing homes for 84,000 people. In addition to single-family dwellings, Levittowns provided private meeting areas, swimming pools, public parks, and recreational facilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown