Mel Conway

@conways_law

Systems thinking applied to human activity. Radical simplification.

Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
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  1. Aug 31

    In 1933 it was the Communists.

    This week, Europe's migrant crisis reaches a fever pitch. Sign up for Signal for the latest global politics news and analysis:
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  2. Aug 31

    OK, which are the two non-GMO ingredients? One is the salt, obviously. What does this tell me about: 1. The product? 2. Their opinion of my ability to read and understand?

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  3. Aug 29

    3/3 4. Therefore, if we want to build things that learn and behave like people, we have to give them bodies and start them out very early, maybe even in utero, learning by interacting with their environments. There are no shortcuts.

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  4. Aug 29

    2/3 1. The brain reaches the furthest limits of the body and is practically indistinguishable from the body. 2. Basing our understanding of human learning on language use is fatally limited. 3. The body is an essential part of animal learning.

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  5. Aug 29

    Distinction: laying bricks vs. building walls. Grownups who say "teach children coding" are betraying their own failure to cope with this distinction.

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  6. Aug 29

    Suggestion, especially in the context of teaching children: make "coding" a dirty word.

    As for system design...
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  7. Aug 28

    When how wealth is created is taught in elementary school, maybe our descendants can be freed of this garbage. But then, the educators will have to understand it.

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    What's better than a bank holiday? Four extra bank holidays a year! In government, we'll make it happen 👇
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  8. Aug 27

    Twitter used as it should be.

    This is my father. He was shot & killed on the 99 in Bakersfield on Friday morning. He was in a crash and hit his head so bad he was bleeding but because of how he looked they thought he stole the car he was driving so they killed him. Please help me get justice for him.
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  9. Aug 27

    2/2 I am wondering if we are in the early stages of a similar evolution of design thought. That’s how I’m beginning to see my prototyping work, not as a way of building stuff to figure out requirements, but as a way of *delaying choices*. Comments? Connections?

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  10. Aug 27

    1/2 Lazy evaluation goes back, in my memory, to Peter Ingerman’s “Thunk” (UPenn, ca. 1960, Univac I). It has since evolved in various forms such as objects and dynamic typing.

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  11. Aug 27

    Mind-blowing myopia.

    No words.
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  12. Aug 26

    It takes one to know one.

    Integrity and principle are rare commodities. John McCain was that rarity. He spoke the truth and stood up for what's right, regardless of political advantage. It will always be among the greatest blessings of my life to have known you, Senator. May God grant you peace eternal.
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    Aug 26

    Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician and heroine of Hidden Figures, is 100 today. Happy 100th birthday!

    Katherine Johnson (1918-) made important mathematical contributions to NASA's space programmme, born 26 Aug
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    Aug 25

    The reason you can see this is because of oil and gas. The reason you haven’t starved even so, is because of oil and gas.

    The drought in Central Europe has shrunk the rivers & exposed "hunger stones", where people of the past recorded droughts & the famines they caused. One of the stones recently uncovered in the Elbe is carved with the words, "If you see me, weep." Source:
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  16. Aug 24

    An amazing, extended peek under the covers. Very enlightening.

    Dear world: This *is* how things work on the backend for much of our connected world. I recall conversations about SpaceX having issues with stale NFS handles scrubbing launches. Think it’s hard to intentionally disrupt ststems? Not much harder than keeping them running as is.
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  17. Aug 24

    The occupational hazards of Wagner.

    A percussionist from the Berliner Philharmoniker plays a hammer during Wagner's "The Ring Without Words" conducted by Lorin Maazel.
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    Aug 22

    Students taking a first course in nonlinear dynamics and chaos may find my lectures useful. Free online at

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  19. Aug 21

    Journalism is in crisis. This is just one aspect of that crisis.

    Liberty University restructured the student newspaper there and fired the EIC. Here's the dean of the school of communication talking to the new staff after the changes:
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  20. Aug 21

    4/4 My questions to the group: A. How, if at all, will using the tool change your outcomes? B. What, if anything, is that worth to you? C. What do you need to incorporate the tool into your practice?

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