Hacker News with Generative AI: Systems

Dice and Queues (justincartwright.com)
One of the key insights from queuing theory is that the average queue size for an unbounded system tends to increase significantly as utilization approaches 100%.

Queueing Theory, Performance, Systems

65 points by jcartw 16 days ago | 17 comments

Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis (palladiummag.com)
At a casual glance, the recent cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack.

Complexity, Systems, Competence, Crisis, American Society

8 points by TaurenHunter 56 days ago | 0 comments

Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology (abeljansma.nl)
Have a look at these three rings:

Philosophy, Mathematics, Systems

89 points by abelaer 80 days ago | 17 comments

Three Packets Walk into a Tunnel (systemsapproach.org)
A few weeks ago I stumbled onto an article about Traceroute entitled “Traceroute Isn’t Real” which was reasonably entertaining while also managing to be incorrect or misleading in many places.

Networking, Traceroute, Systems, Humor

37 points by drbruced 135 days ago | 10 comments

W, X, and Z: The Layers of a System (betterprogramming.pub)

Software Development, Programming, Architecture, Systems

4 points by supriyo-biswas 232 days ago | 0 comments

MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems (news.mit.edu)

Artificial Intelligence, Systems, Research, MIT

95 points by fluxify 254 days ago | 32 comments

Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs (isaacmiller.dev)

Artificial Intelligence, Systems, Betting

83 points by wavelander 258 days ago | 18 comments

Complex systems emerge from simple rules (tecnica.substack.com)