About: Matthew Squair
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- I tend towards the integrative view of engineering & science rather than a reductionist one. So I'm interested in networks, relationships and interfaces. As Aristotle pointed out knowledge is about connecting facts.
Posts by Matthew Squair:
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01/05/2012 Engineering a Safer World
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01/05/2012 Writing Specs for Fun and Profit
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09/03/2012 Decision Making Theory and the Risk Matrix
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07/03/2012 Unintended Interactions and Interface Hazard Analysis
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05/03/2012 Description Errors and Irreversible Commands
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31/01/2012 Safety Systems, Hume and Uniformity
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17/01/2012 24 Hours at Fukushima
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16/01/2012 UK Track Operatives Strategic Safety Action Statement
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23/12/2011 Spiky Data, Means, Medians and Memes
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11/12/2011 On Possibilistic Design and Aviation Safety
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19/09/2011 When All You Have is a Hammer…
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16/09/2011 Pilots in the Loop? Airbus and the FBW Side Stick
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29/08/2011 Sea Walls and Epistemic Risk
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28/08/2011 National Single Points of Failure
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14/08/2011 Out of the Loop
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10/08/2011 The Phantom Menace, or the Crossing that Never Was…
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07/08/2011 The Titanic Effect (Part II)
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05/08/2011 What the BEA didn’t say about Air France AF 447
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01/08/2011 Authority versus Agency in Design
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30/07/2011 Keep Calm and Carry On
I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.what are the facts?
Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?
You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
Robert Heinlein (1978)
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- Problems at the US NRC huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/gre… Tweeted: 3 days ago
- Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources, only success can tell one from another." Ernst Mach, 1905 Tweeted: 1 week ago
- "Things that have never happened before happen all the time." Scott D. Sagan - The Limits of Safety Tweeted: 1 week ago
- "The enemy of safety is complexity." Behind Human Error, Woods et al, Ashgate 2010 p 23 Tweeted: 1 week ago
- Engineering a Safer World wp.me/px0Kp-1mk Tweeted: 3 weeks ago
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