Kwadwo Sampany-Kessie gives a quick review of books that are good for learning Chinese. But which one is the best Chinese book? On his channel there will be ...
In this Viewpoint, Ioannidis discusses the status of nutritional epidemiologic research and posits that radical reform is needed in the field, including how nut
Going to a conference is always an excitement and fun: one can connect with like-minded individuals and exchange stimulating ideas. However, in order to make the most out of a conference, a lot of hard work is needed before, during and after the meeting. This blog post provides a checklist of things to do before,…
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Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.
We look at Prof James Reason's 12 Principles of Error Management and the greatest challenge of managing error, sustaining continuous systemic improvement.
a blog about computer history by Sinclair Target. It is intended primarily for computer people. addresses questions like Where did JSON come from? and Why are man pages still a thing?
Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professors. We have assembled our textbooks in a gigantic encyclopedia, whose 4,000+ pages cover the design of interactive products and services such as websites, household objects, smartphones, computer software, aircraft cockpits, and what have you. Name an item of design interest, and you'll probably find it discussed inside.
Humans are tribal animals, and a recurring failure to grasp this truth has contributed to some of the worst debacles of U.S. foreign policy in the past 50 years.
Five years ago, around Christmas 2012, I wrote an article about Cynefin, the sensemaking framework. I focused it on software development, because that was the main industry I worked in, and particularly focused on using it to work out which of our requirements were complex, so that we could embrace uncertainty and risk, and avoid…
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Im Alltag spricht man nur bei deklarativem Wissen von Wissen. Es gibt aber auch noch prozedurales Wissen, sensomotorisches Wissen und situatives Wissen...
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This is a big blog post, ( 25 pages). This paper was presented at the International Society for Systems Sciences Conference in Berlin August 2015. It will be published in the ISSS Journal as well. The following pages are a beginning of a concept and terminology that I have found useful in my own work…
Based at the University of Oxford, it uses statistics on everything from health and population growth to war, the environment, and energy to give insights into how living conditions are changing around the world.
The 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project. It chronicled a decade of information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing in Britain. This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips.
This map does not depict actual data. Instead, it has been carefully designed to be a diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes. Full use of this tool will benefit your map designs because colors (even very similar colors) are easy to differentiate when they appear in a nicely ordered sequence (such as a legend). The task of differentiating the colors, however, becomes much harder when the patterns on the map are complex, such as in the lower left corner of the diagnostic map.
At the end of this post is an audacious idea about the present and future of software development. In the middle are points about mental models: how important and how difficult they are. But first, a…
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at JSConf Asia on using the Performance API. Although my talk was primarily about the API, I also talked a bit about tracing. People liked the explanation on tracing, so…
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P. Haindl, G. Buchgeher, M. Khan, and B. Moser. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ACM, (May 2022)
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