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Systemantics (1977, 1986, 2002) > Contents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Contents



New printing might be coming up! His wife (and heir) suggested to a friend that he might be invited to write the forward to the next one. He has cases and cases of books in his basement, and has given them to all his students for years :)


That would be fantastic. I was hoping for a new edition.


Linked Data! IDK YAML-LD for TinaCMS in Git, but then also Jupyter-Book because it supports notebooks and Index generation with Sphinx.

Aarne-Thompson-Uther ATC character/plot story codes as Linked Data would be neat, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80%9...

IIRC I sent an email to a robotics team about cataloguing metadata for supported procedures as (JSON-LD) Linked Data; there also so that it's easy to add attributes and also to revise the schema of Classes and Properties.

Compared to Ctrl-F'ing a PDF copy of an ebook,

Client-side JS to fuzzy search (and auto complete) over just the names of the patterns/headings in the book would be cool; and then also search metadata attributes of each.

The facts in Mediawiki (Wikipedia,) infoboxes are regularly scraped by dbpedia. Wikidata is also a Wikipedia project, but with schema.

Dbpedia:

dbpedia.org/page/Distributed_algorithm: https://dbpedia.org/page/Distributed_algorithm

dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Distributed_algorithms: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Distributed_algorithms

dbpedia.org/page/Category:Anti-patterns: https://dbpedia.org/page/Category:Anti-patterns

IIRC there used to be a longer list of {software, and project management} antipatterns on wikipedia? It may have been unfortunately and sort of tragically removed due to being original research without citations.

Anti-pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

Also there's an Antipatterns catalog wiki: https://wiki.c2.com/?AntiPatternsCatalog

There are probably more useful systems patterns to be mined from: the Fowler patterns books like "Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022)" [1] and "Patterns of Enterprise Architecture", Lamport's "Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport", Leslie Valient's Distributed Systems work,

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38234304

Perhaps there's also general systems theory insight to be gained from limits and failures in [classical and quantum] Universal Function Approximation; general AL/ML limits and Systemantics.

Universal approximation theorem; simulacra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...


Whoops, I mixed up the comment forms:

More notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497800




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