An uncannily thorough treatment of why DARPA works and how you might go about replicating it. Maybe people at the European policy level should read this instead of trying all these initiatives where everything good dies in a committee.

We use reservoir sampling a lot day to day and here’s a great visual explanation of how this algorithm does this seemingly impossible task.

A dive into Stafford Beer’s systems thinking that uncovers the ANT-style depth that’s often glossed over. That notwithstanding, I still think the glib and reductive POSIWID has its uses.