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Personbytes are fundamental in the sense that the accumulation of a volume of knowledge and knowhow that is smaller than a personbyte is constrained only by individual limitations (including experience and social learning), whereas the accumulation of an amount of knowledge and knowhow that is larger than a personbyte is also constrained by collect
... See moreCesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Bereiter and other researchers have sliced up expert knowledge into five pieces. The more straightforward parts are the expertise that comes from skill development called procedural knowledge and the
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
All programming requires is a creative mind and the ability to organize your thoughts. If you can visualize a system, you can probably implement it in a computer program. This means that the greatest limitation in writing software is our ability to understand the systems we are creating.
John Ousterhout • A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition
She devised a process, a set of rules, a sequence of operations. In another century this would be called an algorithm, later a computer program, but for now the concept demanded painstaking explanation. The trickiest point was that her algorithm was recursive. It ran in a loop. The result of one iteration became food for the next. Babbage had allud
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
hannemyr.com‘In nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.’