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A Bubble Popper : Nature Genetics : Nature Research
A bubble popper (semantic assertions)
Here, inspired by the bubble-popping metaphor as much as by Popper himself, we propose a way in which research articles can become partially or wholly semantic publications. This means that a publication can state not only that the entire article is fit for the journal but also…
Boro Method (wikipedia Contributors)
Waterloo Bridge and spatiotemporal extent
As an example, take “Waterloo Bridge” as a concept. The first thing we ask is “does it have spatial and temporal extent ?”. It has spatial extent; it spans the River Thames. However, when we examine the temporal extent we realise there have been two bridges at that site. The…
Epigrams On Programming
On structuring data
Functions delay binding: data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
How Books Will Become Machines
Regulated representations become machines
Our core hypothesis is that regulated representations get more regular over time. The general process of this regulating tendency is the transformation of a convention into a mechanism. The regulation usually proceeds in two consecutive steps, firstly mechanizing the…
Process Ontology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Process
A process may be defined as a set of transformations of input elements into output elements with specific properties, with the transformations characterized by parameters and constraints, such as in manufacturing or biology. A process may also be defined as the workflows and…
Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Backlog refinement or grooming (scrum)
This is the process of creating stories, decomposing stories into smaller ones when they are too large, refining the acceptance criteria for individual stories, prioritizing stories on the product backlog and sizing the existing stories in the product backlog using…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Enantiodromia: extremes turn into their opposites
Historically, this is probably the extreme point of that swing of the intellectual pendulum which brought into fashion the Fully Automatic Model of the universe, of the age of analysis and specialization when we lost our vision of the universe in the overwhelming complexity of…
An organism is what it does
To sum up: just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not other than its actions. To put it clumsily: it is what it does. More precisely, the organism, including its behavior, is a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The self is not a thing but a process
The fragility and robustness of the self is therefore no paradox, but another riddle that makes perfect sense when you understand enough about it. In short, the robustness of the self lies in the fact that it is not a thing at all, but a product of the complex interaction of…
Memory is an active process
We now know that memory works very differently. Each time a memory is recalled, it is changed in some way. Memories are not passive chunks of information. Rather, memory is an active process, the contents of which are forever in flux.
Unity is the product of the self system
As has been suggested, but not yet fully explained, our unity is a product of various parts and processes working together. Unity is the product of the self system, it is not the basis of it. What this means, in broad terms, is that you, me and everyone else are in some sense…
Staying the same through steady change
We can remain the ‘same’ through great change because it is of the nature of persons that they change, and so our continued existence as the same person requires only that there is a steady enough process of change, not that we remain identical in any particular respect. It is…
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Steering with the Build-Measure-Learn loop
The Lean Startup method, in contrast, is designed to teach you how to drive a startup. Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. Through this…
Opening the black box of innovation
The theories of management that Mark had studied treat innovation like a “black box” by focusing on the structures companies need to put in place to form internal startup teams. But Mark found himself working inside the black box—and in need of guidance. What Mark was missing…