UNified FramewOrk for reguLatory Dynamics (UNFOLD): Dissecting robustness, plasticity, evolvability and canalisation of biological function
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=unified-framework-for-regulatory-dynamics-unfold-dissecting-robustness-plasticity-evolvability-and-canalisation-of-biological-function
<p>Author summary Biological systems exhibit remarkable properties like robustness
#evolvability #canalisation #robustness #plasticity
UNified FramewOrk for reguLatory Dynamics (UNFOLD): Dissecting robustness, plasticity, evolvability and canalisation of biological function

Author summary Biological systems exhibit remarkable properties like robustness, plasticity, evolvability, and canalisation. This study presents a unified computational framework to understand these p...

@HankB @sutaio My cell phone has failed several time(battery 2x,screen 3x,charging connector 1x),plus it regularly fails by discharging quickly,the battery is weak. How do I export my Obsidian notes from my phone to some other place after the phone fails completely so that it cannot be booted up and used at all, not even for entering the data transfer command?

My paper notebooks have suffered:
0 battery
0 screen
0 charging connector failures

The Khmer lady running snack stall business and rental house used a basket full of paper notebooks for her accounting. It worked. She was uneducated, wrote worse Khmer ortography that me,a foreigner.Never seen her experience a software upgrade failure, dependency hell or an error on paper notebooks.Issued valid handwritten receipts on backs of used calendar pages.

#resilience #robustness #simplicity #complexity #bureaucracy #paper #analog #digital #writing #biro #ballpointpen #handwriting #opticalstorage #digitaldivide #righttoanalog

@HankB @sutaio I see a problem that these notes often contain information how to recover from hard disk failure, kernel failure or PC hardware failure.

I assume Markdown, Mkdocs and a Forgejo Git server don't work when PC fails to boot up, hard disk fails or the PCI bus fails (which happened to me twice due to corrosion of the RPi motherboard which I successfully solved by copious washing in vinegar, tap water and many hours drying in front of a fan). I fixed several hard disk failures successfully by overwriting the area with faulty recording with fresh signal, but for this the writes have to be properly aligned and manually entered.

I doubt they will be able to do changes into Markdown, Mkdocs and a Forgejo Git server so that they would work even when the PCI bus or hard disk fails or the PC fails to boot, so I will stay with a biro and paper notebooks. They are more robust, resilient and reliable.

#complexity #unreliability #failure #robustness #resilient #resiliency #durability

New post: AI: The robustness imperative

If AI is the next infrastructure layer, the real question is not just capability.
It’s robustness: ownership, open models, digital sovereignty, and resilience under stress.

I connect Olivier Hamant’s biology lens to AI policy, economics, and commons governance.

https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-the-robustness-imperative/

#AI #Robustness #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Commons #PoliticalEconomy

AI: The robustness imperative

The AI ecosystem contains genuine robustness signals. It is also being systematically pushed toward fragility by the optimization logic of the installation period. Through Olivier Hamant's biological framework, a path toward cognitive independence — for individuals, organizations, and states — becomes visible. It requires treating open infrastructure as a commons, ownership as a political act, and digital sovereignty as a precondition for everything else.

Radical Optimist

"We then survey statistical lower bounds that, we argue, constitute a compelling case against the possibility of designing high-accuracy LAIMs with strong security guarantees."

On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15259

#generativeAI #chatBots #LLMs #safety #personalSafety #robustness #genAI #accuracy

On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models

Large AI Models (LAIMs), of which large language models are the most prominent recent example, showcase some impressive performance. However they have been empirically found to pose serious security issues. This paper systematizes our knowledge about the fundamental impossibility of building arbitrarily accurate and secure machine learning models. More precisely, we identify key challenging features of many of today's machine learning settings. Namely, high accuracy seems to require memorizing large training datasets, which are often user-generated and highly heterogeneous, with both sensitive information and fake users. We then survey statistical lower bounds that, we argue, constitute a compelling case against the possibility of designing high-accuracy LAIMs with strong security guarantees.

arXiv.org

#statstab #519 Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness Checks

Thoughts: Multiverse analysis allows you to capture decision uncertainty.

#multiverse #jackknife #bias #robustness #sensitivity #r #outliers

https://mike-data-analysis.share.connect.posit.cloud/sensitivity-analysis-and-robustness-checks.html

Chapter 42 Sensitivity Analysis and Robustness Checks | A Guide on Data Analysis

“Do robustness checks until you believe the result.” — the author, having repeatedly experienced the brief joy of promising results only to watch them collapse under closer inspection, and now...

The Power Of Using A Story For Better Data Comprehension And Hence Decision Making
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2021.2016151 <-- shared book review, “Data Story: Explain Data And Inspire Action Through Story”
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[I encountered this excellent graphic from @saurabh Rai, and went and explored the ideas put so succinctly here; I found, well, a technical story overview (link above) to ‘match’; however, this should not be considered an endorsement of this book]
#data #storytelling #data #comprehension #presentation #story #frameworks #context #setting #dataquality #communication #usecase #robustness #insights #correctness #decisionmaking #narratives #decisions
Robust, resilient, and values-driven. https://andrewjmclaughlin.blogspot.com/2025/11/robust-resilient-and-values-driven.html
Amidst a very busy week, I really benefitted from listening to Martin I. Jones, Dr Jonpaul Nevin and Nathalie Pattyn (via the Optimising Human Performance podcast) discuss how good training programmes build both #robustness (how long it takes to knock ...
Robust, resilient, and values-driven.

Reflections on learning, teaching and leading in the Scottish education system. Focus on leadership, digital pedagogy and intentionality.

Dự án archgw: một proxy trung gian cho các tác nhân AI, giúp giảm thiểu các vấn đề bảo mật và tăng tốc độ xử lý. archgw cho phép xây dựng các tác nhân AI bằng bất kỳ ngôn ngữ hoặc khuôn khổ nào và offload công việc管道 AI sang một cơ sở hạ tầng bền vững. #archgw #AI #TrungGian #BảoMật #TốcĐộ #LLM #Rust #Cplusplus #Go #Python #TácNhânAI #CơSởHạTầng #Robustness

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1p5jz50/archgw_0320_all_python_deps_removed_from_request/