Reposted by Forrest Thiessen
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Forrest Thiessen
@orderfromchaos.today
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Geek. I plan to occasionally post about things I'm thinking about or hobby projects I'm working on. I publish a newsletter about getting things done in large teams: orderfromchaos.today.
![tpwrtrmnky on tumblr: "Guy who has a non-research degree in a field that never studies human subjects: Here are my opinions on what needs to be done for me to respect this field I've decided to become a denier of.
• [Extreme breach of scientific ethics]
• [Violent abuse of power]
• [Method that actually doesn't obtain any information]
• [Controlled double-blind studies of phenomena where that is literally impossible]
• [Seeking empirical proof that a word has the meaning that it's defined as]
• [Study that would have a dropoff rate of 100%]
Additionally, how do we know that [best currently available theory] is true, and not [dominant theory from 100 years ago that repeatedly failed in the face of evidence]? I have found some minor methodological flaws in [studies that were not designed to prove the best available theory, but rather examine edge cases within that theory], so we should really consider [nonsense with no evidence backing it whatsoever]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreibkldwcqx3wsmfgqrixd7wklxpesfaejzc36r7aqv7pv26v7m5xvy)
