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n unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we dont know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld United States Secretary of Defense (2001-2006, 1975-1977) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880 Chapter 9 KNOWN UNKNOWNS Donald Rumsfeld HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015881

was both the youngest and the oldest serving U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. We will shortly discover Rumsfeld’s convoluted view of the world turns out to be closer to the truth than Hilbert’s tidy mathematical aspiration. As well as believing there were no u

ring of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” Fred Brooks “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Brooks’ Law HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015920 Fred Brooks explains why writing software is hard, and why machines are not going to do it for us anytime soon. The or

ppeared in the proceedings of the Tenth World Software Conference. It was subsequently expanded into the, now famous, book, The Mythical Man Month. Brooks believed solving real world problems involves understanding the essential complexity of life. ‘Accidental Complexity’ — the simple type I: No Silve

ke this interface prettier, less cluttered?” It may cause a busy team to groan, but it does not damage the integrity of the design. To put it back in Brooks’ language, accidental creep is fine — provided you add some resource. Essential creep is not. Adding the french language prompts to a project in Engl

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

lse feels pressure to imitate, whether they want to or not, or whether it is in their best interest or not. Nowhere is this "brutality cascade" (as Brooks coined it) more rife then in politics. Let's say you are a normal person who gets into Congress. rather not spend all your time fund-raising. like

g infantries and saturation bombing, and apparently capable of regenerating itself at minimal expense. From the perspective of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his White House cronies, this would not do. Since the US was accustomed to fighting other nation-states — geopolitical entities containing such

such identifiable targets as capital cities, airports, military bases, and munitions plants — we would have to find a nation-state to fight, or as Rumsfeld put it, a "target-rich environment". Iraq, pumped up by alleged stockpiles of "weapons of mass destruction" became the designated surrogate for an

fiddling with some loose change, finding a quarter, pulling it out and twirling it in his fingers. The task requires hardly any thought. But as Dr. Brooks points out, training a robot to do it is a vastly harder problem for artificial intelligence researchers than I.B.M.'s celebrated victory on "Jeop

g infantries and saturation bombing, and apparently capable of regenerating itself at minimal expense. From the perspective of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his White House cronies, this would not do. Since the US was accustomed to fighting other nation-states — geopolitical entities containing such

such identifiable targets as capital cities, airports, military bases, and munitions plants — we would have to find a nation-state to fight, or as Rumsfeld put it, a "target-rich environment". Iraq, pumped up by alleged stockpiles of "weapons of mass destruction" became the designated surrogate for an

fiddling with some loose change, finding a quarter, pulling it out and twirling it in his fingers. The task requires hardly any thought. But as Dr. Brooks points out, training a robot to do it is a vastly harder problem for artificial intelligence researchers than I.B.M.'s celebrated victory on "Jeop

Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan;

ief operating officer, or even prime minister. Larger-than-life chiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta,

re to keep. OOK Ok The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and dopey heroes, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set out to sell more than 100 percent of the ownership stakes in the Broadway show they a

e Chairman Citicorp/Citibank, Brussels Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense Arthur F. Ryan, CEO,

or Development, Mexico City William D. Ruckershaus, Chairman, CEO, Browning-Ferris Ind. H. Onno Ruding, vice Chairman Citicorp/Citibank, Brussels Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense Arthur F. Ryan, CEO, The Prudential Insurance Co. of America Rusdu Saracoglu, President of the Finance Group, Turkey Si

tionwide, New York contemplates its history and future as a refuge. History of The Producers: Part HI By Adam Sternbergh The filming of Mel Brooks's Broadway triumph was supposed to be a rollicking event. But sometimes even in comedy, tragedy intervenes. REA WW1 The Han SEARCH' Select

uel 332 Rosetta Stone 89 Rowling, JK 306 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 366 RSA encryption 165 Rubik’s cube 345 Rule 164 192 tules 192, 200 Rumsfeld, Donald 190, 194 RunMe 245 Ruohonen, Keijo 251 Russell, Bertrand 155, 193, 195 Russell paradox 155 S Sachs, Oliver 12 Sagan, Carl 68 Sandler, A

visual agnosia 12 brain damage 97 brainstorming 298 Branson, Richard 24 Bricklin, Dan 237 bridge 134 British General Strike 211 Britten, Benjamin 305 Brooks, Fred 229, 230, 231, 237 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016096 Brooks’ Law 230 bubble sort ballet 165 Buschkuehl, Martin 33 Bush, George W 194 butterfly creating

Rose, Charlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279 Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133, 229-30 Roth, Steven, 27, 141 Rove, Karl, 57, 238 Rumsfeld, Donald, 27 Russia, 24, 37-39, 92, 151-56, 160, 190-91, 236-46, 273, 303, 307-8 Bannon on, 6—7, 238-40, 278-83 Comey and, 168-70, 210-20, 242, 244-45

, 2, 32, 58-59, 62, 121, 126-29, 138, 160-62, 167, 179-80, 196, 207-8, 237, 266, 275, 297-98, 309 Brennan, John, 6, 41 Brexit, 5 Britain, 70, 157 Brooks, Mel, 15 Bryan, William Jennings, 45 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020123 Brzezinski, Mika, 66-69, 121, 176, 247-49 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 66 Buckley, William F.