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DSC Weekly 29 Nov 2022 – Winter is Coming
I live near the top of one of the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in the Puget Sound, my first year of living here after spending the last decade in a valley near sea level, only a few miles away. Warily, we’re watching the heavy, sullen clouds move in even as a cold weather system presses in from the north, a guaranteed recipe for snow. Winter is coming.
DSC Weekly 22 Nov 2022: Destruction of the Commons
I’ve remarked more than once that the life cycle of social media platforms shares more than a passing resemblance to the evolution of stars.
DSC Weekly 15 Nov 2022 – The Dynamics of Ranked Voting
A Ranked Choice Voting system takes a different approach. In a Ranked Choice, candidates from any party (or no party) can stand for election. Voters rank their preferences, and the top three candidates then go onto a second election, where the top vote receiver wins the election. A referendum passed in this latest election cycle makes Nevada a Ranked Choice state, joining Alaska and Maine. Significantly, these states all have had a history of independent candidates.
DSC Weekly 25 October 2022 – Re: Your Brains
Announcements In 2023, organizations will battle a more complex threatscape than ever as web application breaches continue to rise, credential theft and credential stuffing remain… Read More »DSC Weekly 25 October 2022 – Re: Your Brains
DSC Weekly 18 October 2022 – How the Pandemic Created a Time Warp
Recessions, it has been said, are typically only visible in a rear-view mirror. In theory, we are in a recession when the economy shrinks over two quarters. In practice, however, not all recessions are the same.
DSC Weekly 11 Oct 2022 – Writing for DSC
The DSC Weekly newsletter normally covers trends or practices in the data science and AI field. Still, every couple of months, the editorial team will also write a newsletter issue such as this one specifically for writers. If you write regularly, these may contain new or changing information, while if you aren’t a writer yet, but you’d like to be, this is a good reference to check.
DSC Weekly 4 October 2022 – Resiliency
Last week, Hurricane Ian hit Fort Myers, Florida, skirting the edge of Category 5 Hurricane classification. By the time it exited the other side of the Peninsula (going on to hit the Carolinas as a severe tropical storm), Ian had brought 18′ storm surges that leveled buildings, killed at least seventy-five people, and left several million people without power. The storm was nearly as large as the state when it made landfall.