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Lean manufacture
Great dogmas
- Data will make us redundant
- Signal to noise ratio?
- Derivatives
- Integrity of process is paramount: If the process is perfect, there is no risk
- Risk is bad
- Risk is inevitable
- Risk is a condition precedent to return. Understand and manage risks; don’t try to banish them.
Machines versus humans
- Have we got the division of labour right?
- Machine - Digital
- Replicable, cheap, free, value zero.
- Ultimate fidelity
- Fast
- Algorithmic: will work. Needs no supervision
- Rules
- Deterministic
- Literal
- Data-dependent
- Analog
- Error-prone
- Heuristic: might work: Needs supervision
- Slow
- Ambiguous
- Metaphorical
- Evaluation
- You can strip a deterministic process out of a messy human one
- You can't force the genuinely intractable analog to the digital