Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Rethinking Boyd I
This is one of those posts that makes the blogosphere worthwhile: Decentralized decision making via a market mechanism or open source framework. This approach is similar to process “B” detailed above, except that a much wider degree of diversity of … Continue reading
Technology Proficiency Index
Guaranteed that a large chunk of the NSA wiretap fiasco was driven by people like the incompetent Jane Harman who just didn’t have the technical knowhow to ask questions. Pushing for transparency is great, like the Sunlight Foundation wants to … Continue reading
Malware + Canadian Health
Critical component of state legitimacy for many nation-states: The infection began with just a few computers but spread like a Prairie grass fire, eventually knocking out 1,308 work stations in three cities and taking more than a month to eradicate, … Continue reading
Looking in the Government Mirror
Top 25 think tanks were cited 17% less than last year. This is the third year of decline. Wish that meant something, but FAIR tracks this data by seeing how many times various tanks were referenced by the media. The … Continue reading
Bloated Census
Big worries for the nation’s first high-tech census should have been obvious when tests showed some of the door-to-door headcounters couldn’t figure out their fancy new handheld computers.Now, officials say, technology problems could add as much as $2 billion to … Continue reading