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Two decades in jail waiting for #dueProcess. You can see why people want to use AI to facilitate access to justice, but without careful #systemsEngineering it’s more likely to clog the system further. #AIEthics
Mumbai train blasts: Indian court acquits all 12 accused
An Indian high court ruled that those accused in the deadly 2006 Mumbai train blasts will now walk free. They have already spent nearly two decades in the prison for the crimes.
https://www.dw.com/en/mumbai-train-blasts-indian-court-acquits-all-12-accused/a-73347121
Deutsche Welle · Mumbai train blasts: Indian court acquits all 12 accused
Conway’s Law:
«[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.»
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
en.wikipedia.orgConway's law - Wikipedia
This is my second migration on Mastodon, so I think an Introduction might be in order. I'm moving in to this account (that had lived independently, to test some of Mathstodon features) after astrodon.social is being sunset. Hope that Astrodon as a concept still lives!
I currently work in Systems Engineering for radio telescopes (in particular, the ALMA radio interferometer). I’ve also worked in software development and management for the SKAO observatory, and for the archive department at ESO. Of course, I'm also very interested in math (specially that having to do with system theory), so I'll try to get a bit stronger there.
Glad to see you all around!
Compendium of Nancy Leveson: STAMP, STPA, CAST and Systems Thinking
Although I don’t often mention or post about Leveson’s work, she’s probably been the most influential thinker on my approach after Barry Turner.
So here is a mini-compendium covering some of Leveson’s work.
Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site:
https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinsonhttps://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102747/esd-wp-2003-01.19.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://escholarship.org/content/qt5dr206s3/qt5dr206s3_noSplash_4453efa62859a16d187fa5e66d414ac2.pdf
https://escholarship.org/content/qt8dg859ns/qt8dg859ns_noSplash_e67040b78c1ff72e51b682bb23d8628a.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840608101478
https://doi.org/10.1145/7474.7528
http://therm.ward.bay.wiki.org/assets/pages/documents-archived/safety-3.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108601/Leveson_A%20systems%20approach.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/Rasmussen-Legacy.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/issc03-stpa.doc
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2018.07.028
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/shell-moerdijk-cast.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/CAST-Handbook.pdf
https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/get_file.php?name=STPA_Handbook.pdf
https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JThomas-STPA-Introduction.pdf
https://cris.vtt.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/98296189/Complete_with_DocuSign_2024-1-2_STPA_guide_F.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/UPS-CAST-Final.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100912
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107502/974705860-MIT.pdf?sequence=1
https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2007/proceed/papers/DULAC552.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/jsr-final.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2556938
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102833/esd-wp-2011-13.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/15/3/272/727503?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://www.academia.edu/29657886/The_systems_approach_to_medicine_controversy_and_misconceptions
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3376127
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022522316000702
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/caib/issc-bl-2.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/ARP4761-Comparison-Report-final-1.pdf
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8102762
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1011241
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/2040-2295.3.3.391
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/incose-04.pdf
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/78070242.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102767/esd-wp-2004-08.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2014.1001445
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230017753/downloads/Kopeikin_AIAA_UnsafeCollabControl_v5.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/space2001-version2.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/90801/891583966-MIT.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/Bow-tie-final.pdf
https://cs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings232/597.pdf
https://a3e.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Risk-Matrix.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21695067231192457
https://jsystemsafety.com/index.php/jss/article/download/44/41
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/compliance-with-882.pdf
https://meridian.allenpress.com/bit/article-pdf/47/2/115/1488089/0899-8205-47_2_115.pdf
LinkedIn post:
Whenever someone tells you what AI is going to do, you know they are lying to you because AI is just a software engineering technique. Believe rather people who talk to you about what we should and shouldn't allow people to do with AI.
so i am going to post a thread of some graphs about the human situation on the planet. some show data, some show concepts. all of them are going to be pretty depressing, so buckle up.
Continued thread
In retrospect, it was interesting to hear Google's efforts to educate German business and government into using their generative tools. Are they just trying to become a consultancy, a necessary component of business & government, or are they also still trying to gather information? How can they work to assure us they only build, not coopt, our intelligence? #transparency is a problem for tech companies and governments both. #AIAct #google #digitalgovernance #systemsAI #systemsEngineering #devops
Super interesting, but this is still something I expect the OS to guard against? Of course C, its compiler CC and unix were all designed together, but maybe that’s as it should be for anything with this kind of memory access? #microsoft #crowdstrike #devops #systemsengineering #digitalGovernance #aiethics https://pony.social/@thephd/112818744298401332 via @rdviii
Ponies on MastodonBjörkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus (@thephd@pony.social)A lot of people think I'm being sarcastic here, which is fair because I only went toe-to-toe against people on Twitter and didn't do much here, so I'll state my full opinion below anyhow:
I would agree with anyone about not wanting to replace C (or C++). But, C has been alive for 50 years (or just 35 from C89) and Rust has been alive for just barely under 10 (since Rust 1.0). Even if you measure the last 10 years of Rust versus the last 10 years of C or C++, one of these languages is making leaps and bounds ahead in providing people better primitives to do good work.
SafeInt secured pretty much all of Microsoft Office from some of the hardest bugs back in, around, 2005. C++ still lacks safe integer primitives; C only just got 3 functions to do overflow-checked math in C23, after David Svoboda campaigned for years. Rust just... has them baked into the standard library, for all the types you care about, too.
Similarly, people have been having memory issues in C and C++ for a while too. Most of the way to get better has been clamping down on static analysis and doing more testing, but we're still getting these errors. Meanwhile, teams writing Rust have been making way less errors on this in all the openly-published data from corporations like Google, and privately we are hearing a lot more about people taking complex financial and parsing code and turning it into Rust and having a fraction of the issues.
Even if I want to see C doing better, I have to acknowledge we were (a) too slow and not brave enough to do the things that could fix these portions of the language; (b) have fundamental design issues in the language itself that make ownership impossible to integrate as part of the language without breaking a ton of code; (c) do not provide good in-language tools and keep depending on vendors to "do the right thing" (i.e. adding or expanding U.B. and then just saying "vendors will check it" rather than taking responsibility with our language design); (d) are moving monumentally too slow to address the needs of the industry that many people -- especially security people -- have been yelling about since the mid 90s.
As much as I just want to pretend that I can write off every developer with "haha lole skill issue test better sanitize better IDIOT", if the root cause on this bug is "there was some C and/or C++ code that looked nominally correct but did batshit insanity in production", we absolutely will have problems to answer for. This doesn't absolve CrowdStrike for cutting 100s of workers and playing fast and loose, this doesn't excuse the fact that hospitals went down and people likely dead from lack of access to care, this doesn't change that it's abhorrent to have unmitigated hardware access in Ring0 just for a "security product", which has been the trend of every app wanting to plug in its own RootKit-like tool just for the sake of "app security" lately (League, NProtect, School Exam Spyware, etc.). There's a LOT of levels of "what the fuck have we let happen?" in play here, but I don't control those other levels.
I'm responsible for C, so I'm gonna look at the C bit. Other people responsible for the other parts of this stack should, hopefully, take sincere responsibility for those parts. (I doubt it, though, lmao.)
The #GDPR is helping innovation by improving #systemsEngineering #systemsAI. This is exactly what the #dsa and #aia #aiact will do assuming the entities formerly known as GAFAM don't succeed in derailing EU #digitalGovernance. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13662716.2023.2271858
The Boeing 737 MAX incidents are a stark reminder: even industry giants with a legacy of excellence can stumble. What went wrong? Was it a failure of engineering principles or something more profound?
In my latest blog post on Resilience Engineering, I explore concepts like FMEA, Chaos Engineering, and how organizations can build systems resilient to failure.
#resilience #sre #chaosengineering #fmea #systemsengineering #softwareengineering
Nicolas Brousse - Resume & BlogEmbrace Disruption: How Resilience Engineering Makes Your Systems StrongerDiscover how resilience engineering, including chaos engineering and FMEA, strengthens systems, turning disruptions into opportunities for growth and adaptability.
I've been working in software engineering industry for a while. Now working on #SmartEnergy and #SystemsEngineering
Interested in many topics from #EmbeddedSystems to #SoftwareSecurity to #CloudComputing
Societal topics also matter to me, not only because #SoftwareDesign is very much about #HumanRelationships but these are very sensitive to #Political and #Social that are currently being designed also on #SocialMedia
I guess I should do an #introduction. I'm a cis male, poly, and use he/him pronouns. Work is #systemsengineering, #softwareengineering, #devops and #cloud. I might toot about riding my #motorcycle and #bicycle, recreational #programming, #retrocomputing, and tinkering with #electronics, my #karate practice, or my interests in #history and #economics and in #metalworking and #blacksmithing.
I did an #Introduction when I joined mastodon.green, but I guess another one is needed for #Astrodon. I currently work in #SystemsEngineering for #RadioTelescopes (in particular, the #ALMA radio interferometer). I’ve also worked in software development and management for the #SKAO observatory, and for the archive department at #ESO. Glad to see you around!
Hi, I'm Stephan, living in the northern part of Germany; more precisely in Bad Schwartau near #Lübeck. I am a trainer, consultant, and coach with oose eG located in #Hamburg.
My interests/spheres of competence are:
#SystemsEngineering
#MBSE
#SysML
#SoftwareEngineering
#SoftwareArchitecture
#SoftwareCraft
#CPlusPlus
#Snooker
#Poker
#ElectronicMusic
#Writing
Depending on the topic, toots are in EN 
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