The Feast

The feast of the assumptions.

People vary. They vary in many things, but they certainly vary in their body size and composition, their energy expenditure, and their requirements for nutrients. Assessing the adequacy of diets for populations comprising such a variety of individuals requires tools, and the development of such tools has been a core function of public health nutrition over several decades. These tools have gone...

FEAST Workshop

The Guest at the Feast

I knew the risks when I asked the question, but the reward was too great. I was in the laboratory of a new university in the Persian Gulf. Four young women, each wearing a full burka, were working on a computer engineering project. PC boards covered the table, and laptop screens glowed with source code, yet the situation’s dynamics were clear. Computing was the guest at the feast, incorporated ...

A moveable feast.

Preprints Feast Workshop Iii

How do organizations use feedback to change their processes, and hence, improve their performance? A small working group isproposing that any organization under control almost always should be using feedback to stabilize and improve their products.We describe the results of applying the Feedback, Evolution, And Software Technology (FEAST) feedback model to ourwork on improving t...