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notes<p>"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals" - Michael Jamal Brooks</p><p>"We will only make it if we are hard on these systems but deeply tender and caring with each other." - <a href="https://adawaygroup.com/soft-with-each-other-hard-on-systems/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">adawaygroup.com/soft-with-each</span><span class="invisible">-other-hard-on-systems/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Systems</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kindness</span></a></p>
Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ :ferris: :go:<p>I had found an amazing blog post about writing a "bootstrap" compiler.<br>Something that would allow you to rebuild the world (i.e. build a very old compiler than then can builds other languages, etc. )</p><p>But I lost the article 😭 </p><p>Is there a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fedihelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fedihelp</span></a> person that knows about what I am talking ? I know there is a name for such things and sadly my brain ... well it's fried apparently, I can't recall it.</p><p>❤️ </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compiler</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/operating_system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operating_system</span></a></p>
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Audit finds 16% of Japan government IT systems unprepared for attack

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to cyberattacks leave room for critical impact if not remedied Cyberattacks that threaten critical systems are on the rise globally and growing more sophisticated. (Photo obtained by Nikkei) RI…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #16 #attack #audit #finds #government #IT #JapanTopics #news #Systems #unprepared
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alojapan.com/1369042/audit-fin Audit finds 16% of Japan government IT systems unprepared for attack #16 #attack #audit #finds #government #IT #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #Systems #unprepared Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to cyberattacks leave room for critical impact if not remedied Cyberattacks that threaten critical systems are on the rise globally and growing more sophisticated. (Photo obtained by Nikkei) RIKA KIMURA September 13, 2025 06:39 JST TOKYO — Japan’s

Dihydrogen Monoxide, 🍽 & lit.

Have you a #Unix / #Linux computer #system in a room somewhere without a clock??

To set up a command-line clock 🕒, open a terminal and view the date and time in a virtual console with a shell command...
` sudo openvt -c 12 -s -- $SHELL -c "clear; while true; do { date +'%n%t%A %_d %B %+4Y (%Z) -- %H:%M%n%t'; sleep 59s; clear; }; done"; exit; ` #IT #Linux #Systems #tech

Having time to write down ±64 "%n" newlines, I have moved the text cursor out of the way manually with padding. Screenshot of the virtual console doing this date and time in the middle followed by the command-line text embedded at the end, 😌/🥲 —

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Shreyas Doshi thinks that systems thinkers aren't thinking about individual psychology, emotional responses, irrational behaviours, or UX friction.

Have... have you met us?

linkedin.com/posts/shreyasdosh

I hate this industry sometimes.

www.linkedin.comHow Systems Thinkers can improve product success | Shreyas Doshi posted on the topic | LinkedInOn Systems Thinkers in product: A subtle blindspot that hinders the product success of otherwise-brilliant ‘Systems Thinkers’ is that they tend not to pay enough attention to individual human psychology. While they are gifted in seeing & explaining system-wide patterns, they’d be even more successful if they recognized that all systems are ultimately made up of human beings. So it is vital for them to pay attention to the messy, subjective workings of individual human behavior. It is likely that many otherwise-gifted systems thinkers find this boring and perhaps even beneath them. Plus, their cognitive preferences of seeking logical patterns and abstractions are (almost by definition) antithetical to inspecting the often illogical irrational inner universe of the individual human. So while their analytical superpowers combined with superior articulation skills allow them to make singularly insightful observations about patterns and interrelationships (usually receiving huge kudos from peers & superiors), their blindspot around individual human psychology makes it that much harder for them to translate these insights into creative product features & solutions that will work in practice. This is a vital issue because ultimately your product’s success is always determined by what individual humans will decide to do (or not do) with your product. This is also why you’ll find that very gifted analysts severely underperform to their intellectual potential when it comes to actually conceiving products that become successful. The nice thing here is that the recognition is the cure. These individuals do have the intellectual ability to address this blindspot, but they must first recognize that it is indeed a problem and is indeed worth addressing. In practice, this is not as easy as it sounds, and it is the toughest inner battle brilliant Systems Thinkers must fight if they want to be more successful in product work. | 41 comments on LinkedIn
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

University of Hawaii: Advancing AI: UH research helps machines better understand complex systems. “A groundbreaking study by University of Hawaiʻi researchers is advancing how we learn the laws that govern complex systems—from predator-prey relationships to traffic patterns in cities to how populations grow and shift—using artificial intelligence (AI) and physics.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/23/advancing-ai-uh-research-helps-machines-better-understand-complex-systems-university-of-hawaii/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Advancing AI: UH research helps machines better understand complex systems (University of Hawaii) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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I very much doubt the AI singularity thing is gonna happen, because complexity doesn't scale linearly.

Example, if I make a game prototype, I can usually do it in a day. But to make a complete game out of it takes years.

Why? Because making 1 system is easy. But making a bunch of systems that all interact is exponentially more complex.

Neural nets aren't that different. To go from LLMs to AGI, you need to add a variety of neural modules that all interact, and whoops there goes complexity, up on the exponential scale.

Intelligence gives species an edge - but if that's the case, then why didn't we yet evolve to be hyper-intelligent over the past million years? We still kill ourselves regularly doing the dumbest shit. And fall for super obvious psychological traps.

Well, it's pretty much like with computer processors - at some point, you can't really go faster physically, so in that field, core speed improvements stopped around the ~4ghz mark - and instead, designers went multi-core to go parallel.

Works great for stuff that doesn't interact much, but as programmers know, if these cores run threads that have to interact with other threads (or their data, really) processed by other cores, you get slowed down a lot by having to synchronize things. Also, you need a good design to optimize this synchronization, but it will always be a hurdle.

Brains are similar. Evolution kinda got stuck with the brain design it started out with, so it could be more optimal if it were allowed to start from scratch with the knowledge we now have - and basically, that's what we can do now with AI - but in the end, there's limits to how good a system you can design.

It's the exponential complexity thing. You can't get out of this! It's a hard boundary, like a law of our nature, that can't be broken.

Systems will always consist of subsystems that interact with a variety of other systems - on all scales! On a tiny scale, you could consider each neuron a system, that interacts with multiple other systems (neurons). On a massive scale, you can consider each human a system that interacts with other systems.

Add to this another bonus "law of nature" that, the more complex things become, the more prone to collapse they are, and you have a hard limit. You can only have that much intelligence going on in this universe/reality. It all doesn't scale well.

This toot went a bit all over the place, but I think you get my point. I should write a paper on this some time 🤔 I'm not in the academic loop, maybe some people already did; but then it's odd that I never see someone mention it, and many people seem to think something like a technological singularity is a possibility.

So maybe I'm on to some insights here that are relatively novel? That, or I'm just wrong 😁

So, I'm happy to hear counter-arguments to my, ehh, thesis? tootsis? 🙏🏼

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