If you would like additional framing: you have only 30 seconds to prepare and you can talk for 10-30 minutes.
Probably best topic for me would probably be how to statistically model quality in manufacturing. Like what is hypothesis testing, what is a gage r&r, what is spc, how do you properly do those things, what are the footguns, how do you interpret the results, what’s a spec limit vs a control limit vs action limit?
How can you manipulate the tests for your business case? To be clear on that last one I’m not saying manipulate to lie, but it depends on business. For example your control limits are typically +/- 3 standard deviations. If you run a dark business making plastic forks but to get a engineer to fly out and adjust the machine is a few thousand dollarsand no one will care if the tongs on the fork are 3 thou longer than normal. You may set your control limits at 5 times. If you make the steel beams which hold up bridges where hundreds of people die if they can’t hold the forces and you’re measuring width of the beams you may go down to 1 or 2 times standard deviation. Yeah you will waste engineer time which is money but it’s hundred of people’s lives if it fails. Those are different business cases and you shouldn’t just default to the standard 3 st.dev in those cases.
How insurance actually works, so dipshits can understand the real value of a single national health care plan.
Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things
It’s the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.
We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it’s going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.
Probably slot machines and my system to win for a general audience.
For a technical audience I would have a field day with how I have been degoogeling (also other corps) myself for the past years and why you should too.
Why I’m Not Wearing Any Pants (the starter) followed by Furry BDSM: Roleplay Online and IRL, from Vanilla to CNC. I’m your host, Midnight Wolf.
(I’m in the bathroom and the title said “right now” so fuck it, I’ll do it live!)
Optimal crop tables in Stardew Valley.
Do tell.
The reality of life-saving measures in health care, and why a having a DNR (that isn’t a surprise to your loved ones) is so important.
My wife used to work in a nursing home. I’ve heard a lot about the slings and arrows of end-of-life care, and lifesaving techniques, and no thanks, I’ll just die.
Looking forward to your ted talk.
There are lasers that can cut metal. I used to operate, program, set up, and maintain such lasers.
I know enough about lasers to make them seem boring and pedestrian.
How to improvise, using this as an example.
Crash course on how to have a panic attack/nervous breakdown during a live broadcast
Edit: uh oh, my stalker null@piefed.nullspace.lol is back
Yeah my thought was “Hello I’ve been teleported here from my perspective so either that’s now true and I need to go lay down or I’m having a psychotic break and need to go lay down. Goodbye!” then walk as quickly backstage as possible.
Wow, you’d be able to get words out?
Well either that or “Fuck this” would be said, but either way I’m hauling ass to backstage.
Probably the experience and implications of non-consensual teleportation. It would definitely be the most notable thing I’d done in my life thusfar.
The title of my talk is “Innovation as Rebellion against Complexity.”
I’ll start with my experience studying and teaching music history, and demonstrate how every major musical stylistic shift over the past 1500 years or so can be seen as a revolt against excessive complexity developing in the previous style. One example would be the shift from thick, complex polyphony that had become the norm in late Renaissance music, to the relatively simple and much-easier-on-the-ears style of early homophonic music. But I’d actually touch on all periods of music history.
I’d then challenge my audience to ask themselves and each other if this trend can be seen in other fields as well. Do we see such innovative rebellions in, say, art? Or literature? Architecture? The sciences? And what about technology…
…and are we on the cusp of a new rebellion against the massively complex technology that’s thrust upon us today? What does that look like? What innovations await us at the conclusion of that revolution?
I mean I’d be winging the fuck out of it with only a few seconds to prep but wouldn’t that be great to talk about?
You can see I’ve done a lot of thinking about this lol.
The way our urban design influences society and community, and how the loss of third spaces and the dominance of cars in Western society has led to the loneliness epidemic and influence bubbles. I would talk about the movement to reclaim main street and encourage “traditional development”, and how that leads to the micro-encounters that help people feel like they belong somewhere. How parks, plazas and pedestrian areas create third places where people can casually encounter diverse individuals and create friends and community connections. Also with a hearty side about public transportation and how efficient it is, and what a better neighbor a tram rail is than a road of similar passenger load. This speech is pretty much 30 seconds away from coming out of me during any conversation anyway and it’s a conscious effort to stop myself. Would be nice to let it out.
The fact I was aiming for a Waffle House.
The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow
