Thad Kerosky @[email protected]

tuning global tech pulse toward int'l civic data-informed products, starting in Peace Corps in Tanzania & Liberia. I am [mimeograph] years old.

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

🧵 “Complex language requires shared maintenance” reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@simonsarris Demand avoidance seems like a helpful related frame to "complexity" and many-system-drag in this context.

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

https://t.co/YleySw7MVF

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

🧵 “Complex language requires shared maintenance” reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

https://t.co/gIMGMwa1JH

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

Reading “Educating the Reflective Practitioner” (1988) about the then new pressure & how to help professions (medical,edu,architects,policy) better cope w nebulosity in work from @meaningness book recs. Keep thinking about how this dynamic could’ve grown crisis amidst automation

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

Direct: https://t.co/jLmgCW8PxY
HN: https://t.co/VVtKJFbFAS

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

Reflecting back on @brightball pointless story points piece about Product Development Flow (2009) now considering trying to implement bits of the book’s queue wisdom in Factorio game
cc: @patio11

[apenwarr @apenwarr]

I just read this article and all I could think was... wait. You didn't already do this? You were serializing everything?

Of course they were. Software engineers serialize high-latency API calls. Same thing. It's the default.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:

[Andrei Kashcha @anvaka]

Flocking clocks 😅: Only magenta clock advances time on its own, others just show average time of neighbors

Source code: https://t.co/GxLgZCQooG

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@gordonbrander I love this 2006 piece on how employer-sponsored apprenticeships may work differently and less well for women than school-based opportunities due to the turns of life.
So tacit knowledge reproduction seems likely to be gendered by our institutions, too.

https://t.co/tM6m23c9a4

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@gordonbrander I love this 2006 piece on how employer-sponsored apprenticeships may work differently and less well for women than school-based opportunities due to the turns of life.
So tacit knowledge reproduction seems likely to be gendered by our institutions, too.

https://t.co/tM6m23c9a4

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@yishan @BWalkerTTAGGG I heard that the smell of the CO2 scrubbers reagents on subs never leave the sailors clothes even long after coming back on shore.

[Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team @hotosm]

A lot has happened since the launch of the first HOT Tasking Manager in 2011...

Today, we celebrate our first 500,000 mappers on the platform, almost the same as the population of Cape Verde! 😮 🎉

Have you mapped today? https://t.co/lWbOd9wHrG

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

BREAKING: The PMC COVID Forecasting Model officially sunsets Biobot.

Biobot has not reported public data in 3 weeks, during the height of the surge. They will be downgraded to 0% weight in Monday's case estimation model. CDC data will now account for 100% of case estimation.

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@gcsolaroli @cortesi Fair enough, I was intending to point a bit more to the inner retweet and rest of thread about continuous construction of the continuous measure.

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@mvs202 @mtamaryland @MDOTMTAHolly 3 way responsibility, rather

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@JoeDavis522 @mvs202 @mtamaryland @MDOTMTAHolly Thanks Joe, when I pass Garrett Park, looks great now!
I was waiting in Harpers Ferry station a few wk ago & a local birdwatcher was lamenting underpass + collapsed fence condition to the ranger. It might also benefit by TLC from MARC if able by 3 by responsibility w US NPS&CSX🌳

[Thad Kerosky @[email protected] @thadk]

@_StevenFan Inventing on Principle (2012) still worth a rewatch, “don’t mode me in” T’s. https://t.co/HhFcgCVLz5

[Matthias Michel @MatthiasMichel_]

Why concepts are (probably) vectors (https://t.co/buu1kdG6Di)

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Lead poisoning hurts kids’ cognitive development.

Lead poisoning is also widespread across many low & middle income countries.

However, we don’t know each local source.

We can learn, discover & eradicate

Like by protecting turmeric in 🇧🇩

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What happens when a government decides that their banking sector needs proper competition, and mandate a new payment method that is:

1. Instant (unlike bank transfers)

2. Free for consumers, very very cheap for merchants (unlike credit cards)

What Brazil did with Pix:

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

Pretty cool analysis of the cultural evolution of filled pasta (https://t.co/CxuttSHPjQ). Gotta try them all...