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For anyone reading stuff like this, read Ellul’s Technological Society instead. Optionally followed by “The Meaning of the City.” I haven’t read the manifesto and don’t plan to; it…

FYI - There’s a nice set of lectures by Aubrey Clayton on this book if you want to supplement your reading. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9v9IXDsJkktefQzX39wC2YG0...

That interconnect was 3 or 4 orders of magnitude faster than Ethernet at the time for things like barrier synchronization and the hardware was fairly simple. [1] http://aggregate.o…

Are you thinking of HP’s Dynamo? http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp00/cse231/dynamopldi.pdf

That makes sense, a couple of years ago there was a lot of misleading interpretations going around, precise definitions help clear things up. I read Peak a while back, and I must’v…

I think there is room for nuance here. True deliberate practice is easiest to apply in those domains, but there are some lessons from Ericsson's work that can be applied using the …

I’m not quite sure these would be what you’re looking for, but I enjoyed the following: Seeing Like a Rover - Janet Vertesi Human-Machine Reconfigurations - Lucy Suchman Where the …

There are a couple shorter videos with Hackaday, Mill CPU for Humans.

Do you have a recommended starting point?

I think the optimal base is actually the natural log e, or about 2.71. I saw a derivation of this before but can't find the reference. Ternary actually comes about a bit better fro…

I'm sure this isn't what Graeham had in mind with this post, but I'll comment anyway: Steven Spear identifies rapid experimentation as one of Toyota's strengths, not necessarily in…

Something bothers me about Bret's writings: He is very big picture (which isn't bad by any means), but then he often talks in absolutes without substantiating many of his claims. I…

I've been investigating this question recently as well. I am not a great programmer, so take this with a grain of salt. Also, I might ramble a bit, but I'm still trying to figure t…

Regarding his books, he explicitly states the valedictorian approach is probably wrong for most students in one of his books (The High School Superstar one). He recommends almost t…

Little's Law is probably CS folks should know too. It is relatively simple, but useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

I think these are reasonably good, but I can't say I've read every paper on either list. They are reading lists for qualifying exams rather than a course, but I think they'll still…

One of the problems with new stories (for me at least) is when they are submitted. I often see something interesting in the rss feed that was submitted several hours before I got t…