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Reading How Africa WorksJoe Studwell
Studying Probabilistic record linkage Robin Linacre's write-up. The clearest account of Fellegi-Sunter I have found, and it is free. Apache Ossie The semantic interchange spec, formerly OSI. A common format for what a metric actually means, across tools. Synthetic data as a design problem Google's write-up on generating datasets from first principles rather than imitating a sample. Coverage, complexity and quality as separate dials.
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Entities do not exist in the information system. They exist in the real world. Information systems store references to entities, never the entities themselves. Sep 2026 · Something I keep coming back to. · all marginalia

Empathy

23 entries

  • What do I want 16 March 2026
  • Getting Unstucked - A thought 13 August 2025
  • Becoming - The Stages of Life 20 July 2025
  • For those We Care About 30 June 2025
  • When the Backlog Is Full 27 June 2025
  • Thinking Slow , Time Helps 18 June 2025
  • Living in the Moment 14 June 2025
  • Another Moment in London 8 June 2025
  • Fake it Until... Everyone's faking it 31 May 2025
  • Just Be Kind 17 May 2025
  • Delivering More 9 May 2025
  • Just Another Day - A Year In 2 May 2025
  • Showing Up the Right Way 26 April 2025
  • The Psychology of Number 15 April 2025
  • Always Rushed, Always Late 11 April 2025
  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff 5 April 2025
  • The Talk About Change 21 March 2025
  • Are You Building Your Career? 2 March 2025
  • The Choice to be More? 20 February 2025
  • Outstanding Performance, a Skill? 14 February 2025
  • Questions We Fail To Ask 7 February 2025
  • Why do people resist 1 October 2024
  • Pushing Back - A Villainous Act or a Path to Growth? 6 September 2024
Paradox of the month The ship of Theseus Replace every plank of a ship, one at a time, and you have a ship made of entirely new material. Is it the same ship? Now rebuild the original from … all paradoxes
Question · maths Similarity is not transitive. So how does anything ever get grouped? Sep 2026 · answered
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