Lorin Hochstein

@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com

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Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org

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Nelson saying to Lisa Simpson: Gotta nuke something
Dr. Nick saying: “Nothing” means “everything”? What a country!
Dr. Hibbert saying to Homer Simpson, “The best tonic is conic.”
Wheel of Fortune. Revealed letters are LINES OF CO_E. Hint: You'll regret every single one
Electric menorah in windowsill
Geordie LaForge meme. Top panel: Writing well to get better results when working with humans Bottom panel: Writing well to get better results when working with AI agents
An oval labeled "robustness", and a dotted region that extends the oval's boundary, labeled "resilience".
Woman yelling at cat meme. Woman: You should have documented the behavior! Cat: You wouldn't have read the docs.
Screenshot of the "Your Orders" view of amazon.com website. An arrow points to the "search all orders" text box, annotated with "I'm supposed to search here" Another arrow points to the larger "Search Amazon" text box, annotated with "I search here"
Padme 4 panel meme. 1. I’ve implemented automatic bug… 2. Detection? Elimination? 3. (Blank) 4. (Blank)
Bell curve meme. Left-hand side: Study CS Middle: AI is eating all the coding jobs! Right-hand side: Study CS
Screenshot: nobodywantsthis.ai is available. Get it for your website! $99.99
Screenshot that says: cleaningupafterthemessleftby.ai is available $99.99
Principal Skinner saying: gonna, wonna, shonna
Photo of two book covers: Database Reliability Engineering by Laine Campbell and Charity Majors High Performance MySQL by Silvia Botros and Jeremy Tinley
Two button meme. 1. Be “objective” 2. Find the “root cause”
Waylon Smithers from the Simpsons opening a crate labeled “Robot workers: 100% loyal” while Mr. Burns looks on.
Kent Brockman from the Simpsons. Caption reads "AI: Argle-bargle or foofooraw?"
Anakin Padme meme: Anakin: What a huge pain it was to migrate off the old system Padme: The new system will be easier to sunset later, right? Anakin: (no text) Padme: (no text)
Grandpa Simpson saying: CAN'T GET A GOOD SARSAPARILLA LIKE THIS BACK IN SPRINGFIELD. IT ANGRIES UP THE BLOOD.
Radioactive Man from the Simpsons screaming: My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Visual depiction of swiss cheese model of accidents, with slices of swiss cheese and an arrow that passes through the holes.
Image of Homer Simpson on television with the text “OUT OF STATE” superimposed
Butterfly meme. Above the character’s head, it says “emoluments clause”. Under the butterfly, it says, “$400M jet from Qatar”. At the bottom, it says “Is this constitution-in-exile?”
Text that reads: Simple explanations are often compelling & convincing but not always accurate
Marge Simpson saying to Bart: It’s good that you made that awful thing, Bart. It’s real good.
Fry from Futurama at a podium with the price of Planet Express shares projected on a screen behind him.
Text message screenshot. Me: It’s hard to make high-consequence decisions under uncertainty and limited information Them: Going to put this on your tombstone
Screenshot of duckduckgo search of "ieee transactions software engineering"
Woman shouting “It’s a cookbook!”
Sideshow Bob, saying: BUT INSIDE, YOU SECRETLY LONG FOR A COLD-HEARTED REPUBLICAN TO LOWER TAXES, BRUTALIZE CRIMINALS AND RULE YOU LIKE A KING.
Homer Simpson, dressed as a king, saying: America loves its Kings, from George III to Larry.
Homer Simpson saying to Lisa: LISA, A GUY WHO HAS LOTS OF IVORY IS LESS LIKELY TO HURT STAMPY... THAN A GUY WHOSE IVORY SUPPLIES ARE LOW.
Sign on a door that says: "We will be closing on Sunday 9th of February in observance of Super Bowl Day"
Far Side cartoon with a man sitting in airplane seat, where his arm rest has a switch labeled "wings stay on" and "wings fall off". Caption: Fumbling for his recline button, Ted unwittingly instigates a disaster.
Futurama screenshot, with the entire crew gathered together. "It can answer any 'What if?' question to within one-tenth of a plausibility unit." "That's so plausible I can't believe it."
Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons on the phone in prison, saying: “ HUH! "ATTEMPTED MURDER." NOW, HONESTLY, WHAT IS THAT? DO THEY GIVE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR ATTEMPTED CHEMISTRY? DO THEY?”
Grandpa Simpson saying: My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
Left: Futurama screenshot. Head of Richard Nixon saying: "Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs." Right: Simpsons screenshot. Homer Simpson saying "Our schools are so jam-packed with immigrants, kids like Bart have lost the will to learn."
Screen shot of loopy showing feedback loops in calcium homeostasis system.
Unsheathing sword meme Title: MTTR First image: mean Second image: meaningless
Jack sparrow meme: A: This is, without a doubt, the worst code I have ever seen running in production. B: But it is running
Two button meme. Left button: automated recovery good. Right button: complexity bad. Caption: adding automation adds complexity.
Output of Alloy Analyzer that shows a linked list with a cycle.
Homer Simpson saying to Lisa: “Ahh, not a bear in sight. The bear patrol must be working like a charm.”
Lisa Simpson saying to Homer: “By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.”
Meme with two red buttons. 1. Change causes incidentes 2. Action items stop incidents. Caption in second panel: change due to action item
A graph generated by the Alloy analyzer that shows database transaction histories.
Political cartoon dated April 21, 1921 showing old doctor G.O.P. peddling “high tariff tonic” to Uncle Sam
Screen shot of “We’ve updated our terms” dialog
Calvin & Hobbes strip. Panel 1. Calvin: Dad, what causes Wind? Dad: Trees sneezing. Panel 2. Calvin: Really?? Dad: No, but the truth is more complicated. Panel 3. Calvin (to Hobbes): The trees are really sneezing today.
Alf with a cat between two large slices of bread.
Stuffed “Seinfeld” character dolls
Image from the Simpsons of Kirk Van Houten's boss, with the caption: "I don't recall saying good luck."