Simply they are developed without due knowledge or understanding of prior art. I read papers every day, and I have a long memory. In fact I’ve been reading papers for 15 years both papers for my specific research, and then again those that just interest me. And for the last eight years I’ve kept notes…
Current thought conceptualises broad1 data as one layer of data overlaying another usually onto some base-data; the base-data being useful and referable to the user. These base-data may be absolute geographic coordinates, relative artefact coordinates — being eye-tracked say, or navigation pathways through websites. The key feature is that the base-data is a common dimension…
This year I was a faculty panelist at the ACM ASSETS DC. I must say that the quality of these submissions have been going up and up in comparison to the main conference. Indeed, in some case the work and it’s vision seems better than some of the main programme. Of course these are often not…
Is usable software important for you research? It’s a simple question, and I’d think a simple answer. From statistical analysis, to cloud services for data storage, to less mature but still necessary workflow management; most research scientitist I speak to use research software. While some of this software comes from industry as mature ‘billable’ applications…
In an attempt to take notes on stuff I’ve read (similar to Mark Bernstein does for books) – I’ve adopted Mendeley as my reference library manager (love the BibTex support). I’m also investigating Publons to make paper review notes with too! I suppose that producing notes helps me remember the work and investigate its useful…
In the digital economy, knowledge is the most important thing. This simple fact is the reason why accessibility is important to business. All knowledge, no matter who from is useful, and the more diverse the group of Knowledgeers you have, more commercially viable your organisation, because the more flexible it will ‘think’. There is a reason why…
Cleaning up those nasty files func (tw *twitter) cleanUp(entity string) (string, error) { if entity == “” { entity = “myHome” } cleanTime := time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, -2) fileName := strings.Join([]string{entity, “_”, cleanTime.Format(“2006-01-02”), “.json”}, “”) if err := os.Remove(fileName); err != nil { log.Println(“Failed to”, err) } return fileName, nil } So why not have…
func getItem(entries toml.Value) func() (string, error) { i := -1 return func() (string, error) { rExpression := regexp.MustCompile(“(-([A-Z]+|[A-Z]+[1-9])-)”) i += 1 if i < len(entries.AsArray()) { if rExpression.FindString(entries.AsArray()[i].AsString()) != "" { foundString := rExpression.FindString(entries.AsArray()[i].AsString()) switch foundString { case "-YY-": replaceWith := strconv.Itoa(time.Now().Year()) entity := rExpression.ReplaceAllLiteralString(entries.AsArray()[i].AsString(), replaceWith[2:4]) return entity, nil case "-YY1-": replaceWith := strconv.Itoa(time.Now().Year() +…
Last years Hypertext was dominated by recommender systems, this year it was the social Web. This focus on social interconnectedness got me to thinking about just what we mean when we discuss hypertext and refer to linking. Previously hypertext was all about the machinery of the links and how we could use this machinery in…
Bugs Become Features... 