186: The Universe Makes it Happen with Emily Gorcenski

Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode

01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science

• Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back


• What is the question behind the question?


• Data Science + SCIENCE

14:55 - Being Willing to Be Wrong / Failure and Learning

• Methods for Determining You’re Going to be Tracking Wrong Things


• Simpson’s Paradox


• Means Are a Lie


• Detecting Nonlinearities

34:49 - Cybernetics

• 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina

38:43 - The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and The Need For Systematic Restructuring

• The Problem with Testing
  
  
  • Conditional Probability
  
  
  • Bayes Rule
  
  


• Ventilator Production

47:16 - Nuance, Power, and Authority

• High-Reliability Organizations


• Devolution
  
  
  • The Safety Anarchist
  
  


• The Difference Between:
  
  
  • Innovation
  
  
  • A Work-Around
  
  
  • A Shortcut
  
  
  • A Non-Compliant
  
  


• Deciphering Good Actors & Bad Actors

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Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.

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