Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The Kent Uncertainty Principle - On Data and Reality
The more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be predicted from initial conditions, and vice versa.
L⁻¹T⁻¹ETL
A lot of extract-transform-load (ETL) work requires unloading and un-transforming first.
On the Wisdom of Opaque Identifiers
Wikidata uses opaque identifiers for its catalogued information resources. For example, the statement “wd:Q42 wdt:P69 wd:Q691283” may map to the label sequence “‘Douglas Adams’ ‘educated at’ ‘St John’s College’” with a language-locale preference of English-US.
Object Persistence: a Matter of Service
I recently encountered the Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifier scheme and read its latest draft specification.