- The Sad Futility of Trying to Stop Planes Crashing | VICE | United Kingdom
- “There’s a rule of thumb when you’re designing a complicated system, which says that when you get to a point where you’re applying fixes to fixes it may be time to step back and reconsider the whole thing.”
(tags: flight 911 aviation terrorism crash cfit security) - Doing Mathematics Differently | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science
- “Explanation is a form of compression. If a theory is smaller than the data, then in that case, as in so many others, less is more. A successful explanation is a matter of covering a large debt with a much smaller one.”
(tags: mathematics philosophy science computation) - Apple vs the FBI: Whoever wins, it’s a mess – Franklin Veaux’s Journal
- A good look at the technical detail of what the FBI are asking Apple to do.
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- The Sad Futility of Trying to Stop Planes Crashing | VICE | United Kingdom
- “There’s a rule of thumb when you’re designing a complicated system, which says that when you get to a point where you’re applying fixes to fixes it may be time to step back and reconsider the whole thing.”
(tags: flight 911 aviation terrorism crash cfit security)