Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
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Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#2I used to hate paperwork for interacting with bureaucracy until I looked at it as a sort of high latency RESTful API.
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Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#4Is there a special term for opaque algorithms with no human customer service contact info or practical alternative? An algorithmic incarnation of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and "Office Space".
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#5I used to hate paperwork for interacting with bureaucracy until I looked at it as a sort of high latency RESTful API.
Reframing a difficult situation is a successful coping skill!
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#6I used to hate paperwork for interacting with bureaucracy until I looked at it as a sort of high latency RESTful API.
I can easily look at it that way, but it doesn't get better, at all.
Makes you think about RESTful apis, huh
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#7I used to hate paperwork for interacting with bureaucracy until I looked at it as a sort of high latency RESTful API.
Reframing a difficult situation is a successful coping skill!
Yep, but not just coping. I think reframing is a way of conceptual refactoring to improve any thought process. It’s not always successful though..
I’ve also wondered if some elements of brainstorming could be automated, such as reframing a situation in random ways and see what the result is like..
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reframing a difficult situation is a successful coping skill!
Yep, but not just coping. I think reframing is a way of conceptual refactoring to improve any thought process. It’s not always successful though.. I’ve also wondered if some elements of brainstorming could be automated, such as reframing a situation in random ways and see what the result is like..
For engineering problems, TRIZ has classes of solutions based on principles of previously solved problems, a semi-structured "random" walk, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~jps7/Lecture%20notes/TRIZ%204...
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#9Is there a special term for opaque algorithms with no human customer service contact info or practical alternative? An algorithmic incarnation of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and "Office Space".
All we have now are examples like Google and Facebook.
Re: Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
#10The whole point of electronic computers being able to perform algorithms was to replace the work of computers (the human kind) in huts filling out sheets according to strict rules.
They're literally an attempt to replace humans as the mechanism by which rote paperwork can be done -- that they're used this way by business isn't terribly surprising.
So algorithms aren't the "new bureaucracy", they're the new way of doing the old bureaucracy -- as they were since inception. This is a feature, not a bug.