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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
Kagome weave with dandelion stems - interplay of the fragile and the robust
So, yesterday I plucked some dandelion stems and wanted to tinker something with it. My first attempts with these fresh dandelion stems included different kinds of braids: The material is too fragile to handle such heavy twists. Hence I decided to try the kagome pattern, as the curving/bending/twisting of the kagome pattern is very light and does cause few stress on the material. Additionally, as I wove I realized again the advantage of this pattern: While it is also simple and elegant in its simplicity, it has practical aspects as well, as it gets its stability from the whole it forms. Each stem alone is not responsible for the stability of the woven piece.
But as network of entangled members supporting each other, the kagome weave stands out with its rather robust kind, despite being built up by rather fragile members.
One of Sõetsu Yanagi's greatest champions was his son Sori, who applied mingei principles - simplicity, robustness, subtlety and efficiency - to his work as the most influential industrial designer in late 20th century Japan.
By Pedro A. Ortega, Vishal Maini, and the DeepMind safety team
A delicate part of a machine suggests intricacy and quality of workmanship. But the innate delicateness also presents the drawback of fragility, which must be mitigated for the part to be useful. That is the tightrope of sorts that technologists at trading-technology firms walk. Optimizing the countless parts that perform the granular work that helps clients trade faster and more reliably, while also ensuring those parts can withstand the storms of churning, high-volume markets. Fragility of hardware, software and networks can be found in many places: the interconnections of complex systems; the web of intricate ‘handshakes’ and nuanced protocols; myriad formats; and the unpredictability of glitches and failures. Meanwhile, resilience manifests itself in battle-tested underlying protocols such as FIX; systems of checks, balances, monitoring and fallbacks; and preventative early communication.
Terry Flanagan
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
- attributed to Stephen R. Covey
Gentle Reminder (for my dear Friend @rubenesque-dollyd-93 ).
Distributional Consistency Loss for AI
Image request: A stylized visual representation of an inverse problem – perhaps reconstructing a clear image from blurry, noisy data. Overlay this with a subtle graphical depiction of probability distributions converging towards a consistent state. Color palette: blues and greens for clarity; orange/yellow to highlight the ‘noise’ being filtered out. Artificial intelligence is rapidly…
