#robustness — Public Fediverse posts

Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached.
Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in funneling action while shifting risks to vulnerable populations.
Roger A. Pielke Jr. advocated for taking the role of saying "How about these other ideas?" instead of taking a position on currently debated topics.

ref. (2007). "The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics" 🧩 🧵

#policy #uncertainty #uncertainties #robustness #probabilities #futures #anticipation #IAMs #science #modelling #modeling #risks #riskAssessment #unknowns #governance #bias #workCollectives #institutions #Pielke

Robustesse du vivant : contre la tyrannie de l’optimisation

Le vivant ne tient pas par la performance maximale, mais par les marges, les redondances et les « contre-performances » qui lui permettent d’absorber les chocs. Une leçon précieuse pour penser les sociétés dans un monde fluctuant. #Robustness #Degrowth #LivingSystems #Commons #Resilience #Biology #CriticalTheory Un organisme robuste n’est pas un organisme optimisé à l’extrême. Il fonctionne au contraire grâce …

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/robustesse-du-vivant-contre-la-tyrannie-de-loptimisation/

Massive planting of trees, shrubs, and fruit-bearing vines would make it possible to begin selecting the varieties best suited to the climate. Approaches such as forest gardens, agroforestry or syntropy, and permaculture—along with techniques like Keyline design, bio-intensive market gardening, extensive or rotational livestock farming, conservation field crops, and carbon farming—appear to be the most suitable. #collapse #KeylineDesign #robustness #permaculture #syntropy #climateChange

New post: AI: The robustness imperative

If AI is the next infrastructure layer, the real question is not just capability.
It’s robustness: ownership, open models, digital sovereignty, and resilience under stress.

I connect Olivier Hamant’s biology lens to AI policy, economics, and commons governance.

https://radicaloptimist.org/en/post/ai-the-robustness-imperative/

#AI #Robustness #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Commons #PoliticalEconomy

"We then survey statistical lower bounds that, we argue, constitute a compelling case against the possibility of designing high-accuracy LAIMs with strong security guarantees."

On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15259

#generativeAI #chatBots #LLMs #safety #personalSafety #robustness #genAI #accuracy

The Power Of Using A Story For Better Data Comprehension And Hence Decision Making
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https://doi.org/10.1080/15228053.2021.2016151 <-- shared book review, “Data Story: Explain Data And Inspire Action Through Story”
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[I encountered this excellent graphic from @saurabh Rai, and went and explored the ideas put so succinctly here; I found, well, a technical story overview (link above) to ‘match’; however, this should not be considered an endorsement of this book]
#data #storytelling #data #comprehension #presentation #story #frameworks #context #setting #dataquality #communication #usecase #robustness #insights #correctness #decisionmaking #narratives #decisions

Evaluating The Functional Realism Of Deep Learning Rainfall-Runoff Models Using Catchment Hydrology Principles
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040076 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #surfacewater #pluvial #fluvial #rainfall #snow #snowmelt #runoff #precipitation #model #blackbox #robustness #functionalrealism #screening #parameters #accuracy #hydrologic #principles #trustworthy #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatial #mapping #GIS #spatiotemporal #USA #CONUS #AI #ExplainableAI #celerity #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #LSTM #deeplearning #evapotranspiration #waterresources #extremeweather #flood #flooding #risk #hazard #monitoring #prediction #catchments #streamflow #geomorphometry #network #flow #calibration

Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than Explicit Ode Solvers

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/implicit-ode-solvers-are-not-universally-more-robust-than-explicit-ode-solvers-or-why-no-ode-solver-is-best/

#HackerNews #ImplicitOdeSolvers #ExplicitOdeSolvers #NumericalAnalysis #ComputationalMath #Robustness #Algorithms

Hey FOSS-community, I'm trying to compare #GitLab and @forgejo.

Some important aspects are:

- #DigitalSovereignty (most important)
- #SelfHosting
- #Collaboration between instances (#federation)
- #PublicValues
- Prevention of #VendorLockIn
- #Scalability
- #Robustness
- Guaranteed #support by professionals
- Software #freedom
- #Longevity
- Suitability for the #government

Do you have any thoughts on this? Or any useful links?

cc: @Codeberg

#Git #GitForge #opensource #FOSS #community

@vaetiv Example of a complex system: the IT infrastructure of any cooperation older than ten years

#thermodynamics #energysystems #engineering #science #physics #complexity #resilience #robustness

'Towards Optimal Branching of Linear and Semidefinite Relaxations for Neural Network Robustness Certification', by Brendon G. Anderson, Ziye Ma, Jingqi Li, Somayeh Sojoudi.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/21-0068.html

#minimizes #robustness #adversarial

I really liked this informal community poll and thematic analysis on SLO usage. It does a better job at highlighting the hurdles to adopting them at a Company Who Is Not Google than a lot of "Here's how to do SLOs" pieces that just don't cover it.

If there is ever a "Seeking SLOs" book, this should be the first chapter.

https://ericmustin.substack.com/p/notes-on-service-level-objectives

#SRE #SLO #Reliability #Robustness #ErrorBudgets #SLI #SLA

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
A Dictionary of the English Language, Preface (1755)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20347…

#quote #quotes #quotation #English #example #language #nuance #quotation #robustness #dictionary

A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/03/06/

#HackerNews #OpenBSD #Syscalls #Demo #Robustness #Technology #Innovation

'Regularizing Hard Examples Improves Adversarial Robustness', by Hyungyu Lee, Saehyung Lee, Ho Bae, Sungroh Yoon.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/22-1428.html

#adversarial #regularizing #robustness

'On the Impact of Hard Adversarial Instances on Overfitting in Adversarial Training', by Chen Liu, Zhichao Huang, Mathieu Salzmann, Tong Zhang, Sabine Süsstrunk.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/22-0950.html

#adversarial #overfitting #robustness

'Label Noise Robustness of Conformal Prediction', by Bat-Sheva Einbinder et al.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-1549.html

#adversarial #robustness #prediction

Centuries ago, I published a manuscript on BioRχiv about the love/hate relationship between variability and robustness in embryogenesis.

And now, it's published in Science! I am so proud 🥳

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh1145

We went through three (3!) rounds of revisions. Although we did not change a comma in the abstract, the revisions improved the quality of the work very much (we nearly doubled the sample size and added an entire figure).

#variability #robustness #embryology #morphogenesis #mouse