https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020811/better-tech-government-pandemic-united-states/
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:15 PM Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote:
> Don’t worry about it. I’m outsourcing my memory now, to Google.
> —Barry
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> On 16 Mar 2021,
Don’t worry about it. I’m outsourcing my memory now, to Google.
—Barry
On 16 Mar 2021, at 10:58, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
Sorry. That was Oxford, in England, not Harvard. [sigh] I'm too old to
post without a fact checker.
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FRIAM Applied Complexity
With the understanding that I am not talking about any specific project
but rather about generalities, I can point out how much effort you could
save with shared code — kill 50 (55 including territories) birds with
one stone. Especially if that code is built with tinker toy modules.
I think
Sorry. That was Oxford, in England, not Harvard. [sigh] I'm too old to post
without a fact checker.
On 3/15/21 2:45 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> ... or even the recent shunt of Harvard's plan to open-source their vaccine.
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Sure, who *isn't* wrong. That you are interested in the question, as a
question at all, leaves you out of the region of my angst. Additionally, I
almost always interpret you as meaning, "Go for it, so long as you doubt".
Though, to display here an ontological game involving an infinite tower of
In my ignorance, I'd tend to agree. Local governments have a local obligation
and, by virtue of their locality, have a better chance to meet local needs.
Regardless, anyone who cares might find out more at the meeting on Thursday:
*Olivia Adams* built an appointment site for Massachusetts as did *Huge Ma* for
New York. (don't have links at the moment).
I am pretty sure that 50 $1 million sites would be far superior to one $100
million Federal site. Probably all of them could be up and running in a couple
of weeks —
Yeah, but the arrogance lies in the word "similar". Is the Yeo and Lin site all
that's needed? It took me to WAs "Phase Finder" just fine. (I already knew
about it from my GP's recommendation. But it was nice to see the breadcrumbs.)
But WA is, I think, ahead of the curve. It's the Feds'
Well said, for the most part. The generalizations *do* serve a purpose, the
anecdotes as well. From my perspective, performance paralysis is alive and
well in our culture and often I am dismayed when for any given subject an
individual attempts expertise-passing by claiming impossibility. But hey,
It does. Many of us have had hands-on experience building the kind of tool
Biden proposed. The trick is that we, as pattern recognition devices, tend to
think our experiences are generalizable. Whoever suggested finding the right 15
people committed that sin. Your doubt is healthy. But while
I'm not sure this adds anything.
As I've said before I was a one of the first people to be hired by Bell
Labs to work specifically on No. 5 ESS. During my interview they told me
they wanted to hire 125 computer science PhDs. The year I finished there
were 108 who graduated in the entire
Pobre? The thread has me thinking about the relationship between *existence
proof* and *anecdotal evidence*:
player 1: There are no integers between 1 and 5.
player 2: I found the number 3.
player 1: That's just anecdotal evidence.
I worked quite a bit on a variant of the problem outlined, and
That's a shame. Again we end up in the dominance-submission, lie to get what
you want, fake-it-till-you-make-it, conflict-driven game we see all around us.
[sigh]
On 3/15/21 12:07 PM, jon zingale wrote:
> To be fair, this thread began with DaveW accepting wagers. I expect there to
> be
To be fair, this thread began with DaveW accepting wagers. I expect there to
be bluffing, chesting and posturing. I expect stoggies, jack's to be wild,
and for guns to be checked at the door.
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It's important in conversations like these to recognize that preconceptions of
some whatever task are *usually* wrong. So rather than argue "2 kids in a dorm
could do it in a weekend" versus "it requires Oracle and $10M", or anywhere in
between, it's best to think with a little humility. My own
: Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers
Sorry, looks like it has been done .
See
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/03/demystifying-vaccination-procedures?utm_source=SilverpopMailing_medium=email_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020210315b%20(1)
It might be interesting to see how close to useful
Sorry, looks like it has been done .
See
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/03/demystifying-vaccination-procedures?utm_source=SilverpopMailing_medium=email_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020210315b%20(1)
It might be interesting to see how close to useful this comes.
—Barry.
On 13 Mar 2021,
somehow to move up in an organization.
There is no driver to leave or to get smarter about work.
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From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West
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I started as a programmer (COBOL
I started as a programmer (COBOL for business apps / Assembler for internals)
in 1968. I have held almost every title up to and including CIO. I was a
professor of, essentially, management information systems but also taught the
non-math CS stuff, like O/S, programming, database, and AI.
Spent
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Ha, *bringing some more reality* is what I listen for to know when I have
some naysayers on the ropes. Much of the last decade of my career has been
working to reconcile data whose interfaces radically vary. Claiming it to be
an 11 billion dollar problem is a rhetorical move that smells of
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At the peak of the hea
What you describe probably could be done approximately as fast as Dave
says. But we are not talking simply about a system with an elegant web
interface for the public and a static database on the back end. The
compexity of the back end depends a lot on the requirements. Localities
have to keep
These kind of turf issues arise in other large organizations. It is not just
government.
On Mar 14, 2021, at 7:45 AM, Prof David West wrote:
At the peak of the healthcare.gov fiasco, Sixty Minutes, did a segment on a
small company in San Francisco — five people — built site with all the
At the peak of the healthcare.gov fiasco, *Sixty Minutes,* did a segment on a
small company in San Francisco — five people — built site with all the
capabilities, including calculating subsidies (supposedly the most difficult
feature), of the official site. It took them a weekend (supposedly) —
"""
/I can see a lot more work needed that will never be seen from the public’s
side of the system. The 50,000 sites will not be constant. Some new ones
will come, and some will go. Hospitals, public health departments,
independent as well as chain pharmacies have to feed information into the
Rather tangential, but I wonder what percent of people in the USA are
computer literate? Here in the "third world" (Ecuador), many, many people
who use the internet almost constantly have never touched a "computer". For
them, a computer is an Android phone.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 6:35 PM Barry
Circa 2012 - 2015, when I was at Highlands.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, at 2:37 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> When did you do this?
> If you're interested, I can add you to the It's The People's Data free,
> monthly newsletter.
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> Some FRIAM-ers might be interested in what's been going on in NYC this
When the healthcare.gov fiasco was going on, I was trying repeatedly to refill
my Starbucks card using their web site. I thought it would be interesting to
see which site would be running correctly first. I don’t know which was first
but it was close — it wasn’t a slam dunk win for private
When did you do this?
If you're interested, I can add you to the It's The People's Data free,
monthly newsletter.
Some FRIAM-ers might be interested in what's been going on in NYC this past
week, where it is Open Data Week 2021. See https://www.open-data.nyc/
I did. At great length and in intricate detail. Also DMV — who went on to hire
a company with a track record of failure/cost overruns, and lawsuits from 8
other states— and to unemployment office. The only agency that listened to me
was the state engineer and my students fixed a failed
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> Hay, Brother Dave, how about telling th
ehalf Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2021 1:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers
Hay, Brother Dave, how about telling this to Santa Fe City Hall, the Santa Fe
County Clerk, county commissioners and even the Pet Licens
Hay, Brother Dave, how about telling this to Santa Fe City Hall, the Santa
Fe County Clerk, county commissioners and even the Pet Licensing division
of the Sheriff's Office.
TJ
Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com
Or the nature of the firms that compete for government contracts, or the
nature of software development.
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1:19 PM Gary Schiltz
wrote:
> I don't agree with your premise that someone on this list could build the
> website
I don't agree with your premise that someone on this list could build the
website over a weekend. I do agree with the wager, that the federal
government will hire some large contracting firm and spend millions of
dollars, and it will still suck. I have the feeling that that is simply the
nature of
Biden promised a Federal Website to give citizens easy an accurate access to
vaccination appointments. Fully operational May 1, date that all Americans
wishing a vaccine/vaccination will be able to obtain one.
Assume 50,000 vaccination sites, 50, 15-minute, time slots per day and, at that
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