What does it mean to trust a machine?

…since the last update. I have not written anything since then, have been doing a lot of reading & thinking and dealing with medical issues. My medication prescription keeps changing and i am having some difficulty keeping up. I’m just posting at this time to remind whomever might be reading this that i am still… Continue reading i dont remember how long it has been…

this is the first and hopefully only post i will make from the wordpress front end normally i write in emacs and make it generate html then post that here i am attempting to set up a mode called ‘org2blog’ As of May 15 2026 I have decided not do do this it would result… Continue reading pipeline kink

This is not the post I wanted to write next. That one is about meat. It is in progress. This post is about housing. In particular, it is about the place where I have been staying, and the organization that controls it. I have been homeless, on and off, for most of my life now.… Continue reading In which it appears that I cannot trust the Housing Machine

Table of Contents 1. I have been stupid. This is a blog. 1.1. What’s going on 1.2. What’s been going on. 1.2.1. Technical problems 1.3. What’s going to be going on 1.3.1. Hardware / software next steps 1.3.2. Semi-regular posts on “How do you trust $this-particular-machine” 1. I have been stupid. This is a blog.… Continue reading I have been stupid. This is a blog.

Since the last post I have made a very little progress, and added no text. Things are going very slowly as I feel my mind unraveling. I have become obsessed with escape. I don’t know how or where to go. I have almost no money (i have a liberapay account if you feel inclined to… Continue reading distraction

It has been more than 6 months since my last update here. There has been little progress. I have been ill and beset with complications, nothing unusual, just… not doing well. I was wrong about the SSD being the last piece of hardware needed. For deploying the images to their respective devices, I intend to… Continue reading some time has flown

I’ve decided to post updates here rather than on the crowdfunding site. I think there is no link back to that site from here, and I am not ready to add one yet. I have acquired a tower PC with plenty of RAM and active cooling. `guix pull’ runs in reasonable time now, instead of… Continue reading Logistics update

1 Sources 1.1 remote https://patents.google.com/patent/US9070088B1/en langsec.org – meredith patterson’s org, see also thesmartpolitenerd.com 1.2 Local paths file:///home/person/Desktop/science-of-insecurity.ogg file:///home/person/Desktop/trust/TrustReputationAgentsEvoGames&SocialNet.pdf file:///home/person/Desktop/trust/trust.pdf

3 What does it mean to trust a machine? Every day, each of us trusts some machine. When you get in your car, you trust that the car will start, run, and take you to your destination, and not burst into flame, steal your wallet, or turn into a pot of begonias. Cars are imperfectly… Continue reading Introduction, as introduced.

Hello! This is a blog about a book in progress. It is and will be a mess! Sorry not sorry 😉 The book and related software are about “reliability engineering”, a mathematical model for understanding machines, mechanisms, operatioins and the interactions of those things, along with games, trust, wagers and games. As of this writing… Continue reading Introducing an introduction