Washington, DC’s recently released open government directive has a lot of us in the open government community stoked about the mandate we are finally being given, collectively and formally, to make government more transparent and accessible.
The three tenets of participation, transparency, and collaboration are particularly relevant because, while they are couched in specific deliverables [...]
Culture of Yes
Direct Data
It is the end of science. Science as hypothesis is giving way to science as statistically derived by large data sets. We’re finding in many cases that data mining algorithms applied to loosely specified models leads to better results than finely tuned models derived from theoretical equations [see the unreasonable effectiveness of data (pdf)].
It’s [...]
Deriving Organizational Structures from Evolutionary Algorithms
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting in on an Organicities design studio at EPFL, focused on “the digital generation of architecture using biological paradigms.” It was an exploration of the potential these paradigms might hold for generating effective public, corporate, and community spaces in urban environments.
Compared to [...]
Cities are Human Settlements
My two passions have always been the quantitative study of social dynamics, and community. How can we detect and understand patterns in human social interactions? What does that say about their role in, or relationship to, natural properties of the universe? If we can use observed patterns in human dynamics to reverse engineer properties of [...]
Ssh-Agent Forwarding
For some reason this seems confusing– but it isn’t! That said, I always forget the specifics. Here’s how you use ssh-agent to do key forwarding to remove machines.
On your local machine, execute:
eval `ssh-agent`
Note the back ticks around ssh-agent. you need to eval this, not run it!
Now you need to add the identities you want [...]
