Misc. Sensemaking Items

• Figure 5 of this AF report has sensemaking woven all through it
• A human-intensive approach to defeating IED attacks shows promise
• Our understanding of how to weave the mindful and the mindless (i.e., unordered and ordered) is immature at best; see, for example, experiments in easing traffic-related "boundaries"
• "Self-evident computing"? ... something about "self-evident" grates, but the basic idea reflects the trend toward weaving technology and sensemaking
• Sensemaking always has a teleological aspect ... a good, if rambling reminder, from one social media commentator
• A key driver for sensemaking is the explosion of IT-based solution spaces and the associated need to constrain them enough for useful innovation to occur
• More evidence of just how utopian the dreams of singularity are ... and of the vast gulf between IT and neurological structures/processes
• As someone who has taught Statistics, I liked this discussion of the scientific method and statistical analysis. It highlights a basic fact: getting really good data is the hard part; the numbers are easy. And, despite a few exceptions, it shows that any statistical discussion of a complex system (and all biological systems are complex) is very vulnerable to mis-interpretation.