Here are some other examples of cascade failures:
And now from the other side of my brain … Frankie Manning, one of the founders of the Lindy Hop style of dance, died last night, a month short of his 95 birthday.
Good bye Frankie. A lot of people are going to miss you.
For another article I’m writing, I need an online definition of a cascade failure. I wasn’t very happy with the Wikipedia definition, so I thought I’d fine tune it a bit. You might want to click on theirs too.
A cascade is a series of waterfalls that follow one another sequentially.
Today I witnessed an ambulance, all lights flashing, siren and horn blaring, held up at an intersection. Not held up by cross-traffic who didn’t see him, held up by traffic in front of him going the same way. No one even tried to get out of his way. No one! What is wrong with people?
First response, from everyone, is always – Of course they are!
I know. It used to be my response. But is it true?
Is this, perhaps, the death of Generalism in general?
When I studied computers, back in the iron age of computers, the study was called Computer Science.
When we questioned, once, the wisdom of calling the course of study Computer Science, we were told that Physics was once called The Physical Sciences. When, in due course, the study of computers was understood by everyone to be a science, the language would follow and drop the redundant tail.
But is that what has happened? Read the rest of this entry »
I’d been wanting to start a new Blog for a while. But I was stuck on what to call it.
At first, I wanted to call it look both ways. That would make it both a reference to what we tell children, look both ways before you cross the street, and also to my belief that we need to look both to the past and to the future before deciding on the best course of action.
But the domain name was already taken. Read the rest of this entry »
I think so.
Sometimes I see things that just make me want to ask What on earth is going on here? A lot of times, I don’t have the answer. I’m not even sure I’ve got the right question. But, a lot of times, no one else is asking any questions. Not even incorrect ones. And yet I’m full of them. So I’m going to start asking. Read the rest of this entry »