2026-10-05 07:32 UTC
In other words:
• An excellent fit makes the data practitioner obtain an inference engine that generalizes badly.
• Similary, a living entity that only fits its environment may fail to degrade gracefully when the environment changes.
• A social organisation that is optimised is not resilient.
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@maugendre@hachyderm.io 2026-10-05 07:41
In the below fields, #adaptability may already be baked in, if the system has absorbed other contexts: • Staff have a life apart from being managed. • Animals, trees, ecosystems retain lessons from history. • The machine model with many features will promptly react to disruption. Here is a nice illustration by Jonathan Tonkin: https://predirections.substack.com/p/nine-ways-extreme-events-reshape