David Ing @daviding@qoto.org
- Coevolving Innovations
- https://coevolving.com/blogs/
- Distractions, Reflections
- https://daviding.com/blog/
- David Ing. In brief
- https://ingbrief.wordpress.com
- Systems Community of Inquiry
- http://stream.syscoi.com
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.
Joined Oct 2018
The Future of Life Institute Safety Index is criticized by Mark Daley as too narrow, with an implicit bias disfavoring open sourcing.
> The “Future of Life Institute” released their FLI Safety Index this week. [....]
> By celebrating only those models that impose rigid controls on allowable thought and scorning those that grant the user genuine choice, the FLI Safety Index risks becoming equally a barometer of cultural authoritarianism.
“The future of human thought”, Mark Daley, Dec.14, 2024 at https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/the-future-of-human-thought
In understanding the precursors to the Gunderson and Holling 2001 _Panarchy_ book, it's good to keep in mind that when ecologists refer to "Adaptive Management", the clearer longer label is "Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management".
Holling, C.S. (1979). Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management -- Current Progress and Prospects for the Approach: Summary Report of the First Policy Seminar, 18-21 June 1979. IIASA Collaborative Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: CP-79-009 at https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/1193/
In describing "go energy" and "stop energy", @pahlkadot approaches yang qi and yin qi, in a dyadic processual approach.
> This is a useful nuance as I develop a framework for building state capacity. One of my admittedly obvious and oversimplified tenets is that systems have both “go energy” and “stop energy,” much as a car has a gas pedal and a brake. You wouldn’t drive a car without a brake, but you also wouldn’t drive a car in which the brake was pressed all the time, even when you were trying to accelerate.
https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-trump-appointment-that-could
Web recording of the 125th meeting of #SystemsThinking Ontario: A retrospective, introspective, and prospective discussion about systems convening, in coordination with #RSDSymposium .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-ontario-as-systems-convening-st-on-2024-10-21/
In which directions should #SystemsThinking advance? In 1985, Bela H. Banathy promoted engaging into systems inquiry in (i) systems theory, (ii) systems philosophy, and (iii) systems methodology, towards application and competence.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-theory-systems-philosophy-systems-methodology-banathy-1985/
From late September into October, researchers met for 5 intensive days for #CreativeSystemicResearchPlatformInstitute Banathy Conversation event in Lugano.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/csrp-institute-2024-banathy-conversation-lugano/
Web video of launch of book "Seeing: A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness" by #LynnRasmussen. Joined by #LauraCivitello of #MauiInstitute, making Systems Process Theory of #LenTroncale accessible.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/book-launch-seeing-a-field-guide_rasmussen-civitello/
Web video presentation complementing preprint of "Reifying Socio-Technical and Socio-Ecological Perspectives for Systems Changes: From rearranging objects to repacing rhythms" for International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24)
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/reifying-socio-technical-and-socio-ecological-perspectives-for-systems-changes-stpis/
Invited paper to International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24) on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, https://stpis.org/program/ online to Sweden.
Preprint at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-08-reifying-socio-technical-socio-ecological-stpis
Web video from U. Hull Centre for Systems Studies expert-led session on "Resequencing #SystemsThinking: Practising, Theorizing and Philosophizing as Systems Changes Learning", 4 parts, ~ 3 hours.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/resequencing-systems-thinking-u-hull/
Slides at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-05-resequencing-systems-thinking need talk, animation.
Scholarly rankings of #SystemsThinkers may not line up with popularization. Counting h-index is different from number of citations.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/citation-rankings-for-some-systems-thinkers/
Serious about a postcolonial philosophy of Chinese science? Web video of "Yinyang and Daojia into #SystemsThinking through Changes" for #EQLab traces through history + the contextural-dyadic shift for #SystemsChange
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/yinyang-and-daojia-into-systems-thinking/
If an LLM is going to run in your phone, the model is going to have to be small.
> Paradoxically, smaller models require more training to reach the same level of performance. So the downward pressure on model size is putting upward pressure on training compute.
"AI scaling myths" | Arvind Narayanan + Sayish Kapoor | AI Snake Oil | 2024-06-27 https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-scaling-myths
Running an open source LLM requires a lot of resources. The smallest model may run on a powerful laptop, but beyond that, you'll need a server. Besides the GPU (probably Nvidia), check out the disk space requirement for Llama 3.1
8b parameters, 4.7GB
70b parameters, 40GB
405b parameters, 231GB
David Ing
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51% of Americans support the idea of mass deportations, including 42% of Democrats, according to a survey of 6,251 adults conducted online in April by The Harris Poll.
> The same poll found many Americans are confused about basic facts of illegal immigration. Nearly two-thirds believe immigrants receive more in welfare and benefits than they pay in taxes. In fact, most U.S. undocumented immigrants pay taxes but aren't eligible for the benefits themselves.
It's not a democracy when the population is deceived on important issues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-mass-deportation-canada-1.7276954?cmp=rss
Trying to keep ahead of the AI acronyms? A science journalist lists both mainstream terms, and some emerging trends (e.g. RAG).
"AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet" | Jay Peters | The Verge | July 2024 at https://www.theverge.com/24201441/ai-terminology-explained-humans
While streaming music, was reading "Joni Mitchell’s “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” Demos" at https://waxy.org/2008/02/joni_mitchells/
It's not often you see Mastodon in the top navigation bar, @andybaio
Is it only deep systems scientists we would recognize that the finale episode of Star Trek Discovery, titled "Life Itself", is the also the name of the 2005 book by Robert Rosen?
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life, Robert Rosen, Columbia University Press at https://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-itself/9780231075657
#JudithRosen knows!
Pre-announcing April 30 Dialogic Drinks session I'm leading on "#Yinyang and Daojia into #SystemsThinking through Changes", online 18:30 Singapore, 11:30 London, 6:30am Toronto.
Repeating May 2, 8:00pm ET.
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Diachrony (or diachronic shifts) resurrects a word from 1857, better expressing *changes through time*. A social practice publication in 1998 contrasts synchronic with diachronic. https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/diachronic-diachrony/
- Coevolving Innovations
- https://coevolving.com/blogs/
- Distractions, Reflections
- https://daviding.com/blog/
- David Ing. In brief
- https://ingbrief.wordpress.com
- Systems Community of Inquiry
- http://stream.syscoi.com
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.
Joined Oct 2018
