Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The Materials Paradigm and Epochal Time
The materials paradigm1 may be represented in the form of a tetrahedron2, illustrating a set of material concerns and how they are interrelated.
Shaping Up With Sequence Diagrams
A sequence diagram can serve as a fat-marker sketch of a happy-path checklist for a spike.
Relating the ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) Standard to Semantic Web Standards
This is a brief note on my perception of the ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) standard, including my perception of its relation to W3C Semantic Web standards.
Deconstructing the Database, Propagation Networks, and Tuple Spaces
I enjoyed Rich Hickey’s talk on deconstructing the database, whereby he shows an unbundling of the concerns of transaction processing and durable storage from the concerns of a query engine, of live indexing, and of caching.