Artificial Chaos: Recent Episodes
Morgan and Holly
Artificial Chaos is hosted by Morgan and Holly. We discuss technology, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and more.
In this episode Holly declares that she doesn't believe in the moon and Morgan says she really likes Bees.
Holly wants to quit computers and become a fell top assessor. Morgan would prefer to go into witness protection than climb a mountain. In this episode we talk about managing risk, planning for bad things, and cool technology like satellite messengers.
Show Notes
- The Fell Top Assessors: https://twitter.com/lakesweather
- Self Arrest with Ice Axe example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-zj5N3_PQ
- Sherpa People: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa_people
- Satellite Messenger: https://twitter.com/AMountainBlog/status/1539625813385027585
- What is Recco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECCO
- What is What 3 Words? https://what3words.com/about
- Apple Fall Detection: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208944
Example Problematic Locations on What3Words
https://what3words.com/beside.allies.spirit Bowfell, Lake District
https://what3words.com/beside.ally.spirit Kingston up on Hull, Hull
https://what3words.com/excavated.boasted.cabs Helvellyn, Lake District
https://what3words.com/excavated.boosted.cabs Lower Welson, Hereford
https://what3words.com/newsreel.exotic.procures Scafell Pike, Lake District
https://what3words.com/newsreel.exotic.procured Staploe, Bedford
In this episode we discuss the correct method for washing your currency.
Referenced during the Pod
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50763204
- https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/28/ticketmaster-breach
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/29/contents
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/contents
- https://www.casino.org/blog/how-money-laundering-really-works/
- https://www.ft.com/content/bef55016-8143-4a64-9d8a-9031d7cda1f6
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/04/14/why-jack-dorseys-first-tweet-nft-plummeted-99-in-value-in-a-year/
- https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/crime-areas/economic-crime/money-laundering
Holly and Morgan talk user experience, including Holly’s experience of falling off a mountain and Morgan’s experiences buying a TV.
In this episode Holly is accused of being a robot because she has an unusual approach to exams and Morgan attempts an exam only to have it crash part way through. Overall exams are determined to be: quite awful actually.
In this episode, Holly describes how it's possible to accidentally found a company and Morgan explains how that sounds awful and she'll probably never do it.
In episode 3 of Artificial Chaos, Holly rants about America trying to find Russian missile silos, why self-driving cars sometimes drive into cyclists, and how to predict house prices.
Resources
- Here's a link to the "Overfitting" video that I mentioned at 6:53 in this episode. 48 furious seconds of me writing the French word for yes: https://twitter.com/HollyGraceful/status/1438210026187939843
- If you didn't understand the reference to "Nazi Chatbots" at the end of this episode, we're referencing this problem: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist
In episode 2 of Artificial Chaos, Holly and Morgan discuss Cybersecurity Supplier Questionnaires - and Holly explains why they make her angry.
In episode 1 of Artificial Chaos, Holly and Morgan introduce the concept and benefits of chaos engineering, and how to get started running your own experiments. Holly does some impressively dumb things with code, and Morgan adds some whimsy with weird analogies about boats.
Resources
- https://akimbocore.com/article/controlled-chaos/
- https://adhorn.medium.com
- https://www.gremlin.com/chaos-conf/2020/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu119gAANpk
- https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/topic/sre
- https://principlesofchaos.org
- https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
- https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
- https://engineering.fb.com/2016/09/05/core-data/highlights-from-scale-2016/