Archive - Dave Guarino's Occasional Newsletter

The use of knowledge in an AI (benefits navigator)

A kernel of a thought, verging on a draft

Nov 27, 2024 •

August 2024

James C. Scott, metis, and why motivated reasoning is a good thing

Metis, legibility, miscellany

Aug 11, 2024 •

June 2024

A broken SNAP call center gets comeuppance from the courts

Also: I have a new job; and some musings on agency in agencies

Jun 20, 2024 •

May 2024

My meandering interview in Asterisk Magazine

SNAP procedural denials! Bentham and Hegel! PEIS! What more can one ask for?!

May 20, 2024 •

February 2024

Friday misc: EBT theft indictments; a diatribe on power

Also: an FTC complaint against Deloitte over Medicaid disenrollments

Feb 16, 2024 •

January 2024

December 2023

Fragments compiled after midnight

Florida forks California, LLM stuff, and does the AI EO have an appeals backdoor?

Dec 20, 2023 •

November 2023

Using AI to make sense of policy documents

Also: how do we eval *human work* in govt, and a screenshot with *some* context

Nov 30, 2023 •

Friday miscellany: overloaded call centers break things in specific ways

Also: my #1 SNAP policy pet peeve, and this week's screenshots

Nov 10, 2023 •

Friday miscellany (software helpers, this week in screenshots, Texas)

An attempt to collect scattered thoughts (and lower the bar to posting)

Nov 3, 2023 •

Government Stuff #1

A savage journey to the heart of methods of benefits program effectiveness evaluation

Nov 1, 2023 •

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