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16 Jul 2025
New piece on AI limits, safety & testing (joint activity testing) based on large study in 1 of Nature journals ai-frontiers.org/articles/ho…
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29 May 2025
here is a new piece, out this morning, on Aviation Safety in the US given recent events. Maybe useful beyond aviation and a reasonable brief explanation of proactive safety (and we never stop needing these).
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16 Sep 2024
The first set of videos on the Foundations of Resilience Engineering is accessible here (more will be added) resiliencefoundations.github…
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24 Jul 2024
The Robust yet Fragile (RyF) video 2.5 in the Foundations of Resilience Engineering RE series youtube.com/watch?v=gFotUdLL… a convergennce of formal and empirical work that drives the science behind RE
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24 Jul 2024
New videos in Foundations of Resilience Engineering series are out. #7 Laws: of Fluency and of Stretched Systems. Empirical and Theoretical advances meet in the form of general Laws. youtube.com/watch?v=2Nc8hgEE…
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David Woods retweeted
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23 Apr 2024
new on limits of automata. contrasts what had been done to address limits (then)/how these limits affect current situation (now) to reveal conceptual lag during tubulent change
researchgate.net/publication…
DOI: 10.1177/15553434241240203
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29 Mar 2024
The session-An Adaptive History of Systems Engineering-is up. Its part1 of Resilience Engineering view of Systems Engineering: Deconstructing how Systems Eng. Copes with Complexity. Session has some course matieral at beginning osu.zoom.us/rec/play/ZpJ9dku…
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29 Mar 2024
Part2 Resilience Engineering view of Sys. Eng. is Tuesday 4/2 12:45-2pm eastern: Reconstructing Systems Eng: How Fundamentals in Resilience Engineering guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate. osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?pw…
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25 Mar 2024
David Woods live at the white board
Resilience Engineering for Engineers
3/28/24 12:45-2:00 pm Eastern US
osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?pw…
1 How Systems Engineering copes with complexity via simplifications
2 How RE Fundamentals guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate
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18 May 2023
the ultimate strange loop is when 'we are what we study' - which is all projects to develop/deploy new technology in worlds of human activity - which is all of them as they all presume to serve (some) humans purposes.
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3 May 2023
widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 3. 1. "Corner" means rare. Erroneous b/c challenge events regularly occur at boundaries of plans, automata & procedures (& in-error statistically too).
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3 May 2023
widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 4. monitor means-who & how they are adapting, & what occurs requiring adaptations. def of surprise=events that break plans in smaller or larger ways
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3 May 2023
widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 5. not about any cases per se; about ability to adapt how you adapt. Empowering being poised to adapt to beyond-current competence events
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13 Apr 2023
w/ explosion of unexpected effects from deployed AI, time to remind all of (Robin) Murphy's Law: Any deployment of AI systems will fall short of target level of autonomy, creating/exacerbating the shortfall in coordination w/ responsible human roles
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28 Mar 2023
New see resilience engineering on layered networks provides new understanding & new architectures. Advances will be 'hijacked' by others seeking adv. producing new challenges See Th. of Graceful Extensibility. 15min youtube.com/watch?v=fbwDnpuy…
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28 Mar 2023
SNAFU is normal-SNAFU Catching necessary, always Deploying new AI changes SNAFUs faced & ability for SNAFU catching. Can architect networks for Graceful Extensibility-poised to adapt. local ad hoc adapting by people fills gaps w/ risks researchgate.net/publication…
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