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Tag Archives: thinking
Abstraction makes the Engineer
From my own experience I may say, what separates the engineer from the craftsman is clearly the ability to abstract. Continue reading
Posted in Abstract Thinking, Software_Engineering
Tagged abstraction, analogy, Douglas Hofstadter, education, Emmanuel Sander, engineer, engineering, Hofstadter, marking, model, Modelling, parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, software engineering, square, surfaces and essences, thinking
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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking IV
Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture “Segregation and Peer Effects”, Part 2: “Schelling’s Segregation Model”: Schelling built a model and executed it in order to analyse the empirical phenomenon of segregation … Continue reading
Posted in Abstract Thinking, Epistemology, Model Thinking
Tagged abstraction, bullet point, computational thinking, emergence, epistemology, execution, Lecture, Lecture Notes, model, model thinking, Modelling, Page, Schelling, Scott E Page, Scott Page, Segregation, supervenience, Thinker, thinking
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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking II
Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 3: “Thinking more clearly”: This part points out that modelling is about naming the parts that are relevant to the purpose of the model … Continue reading
Posted in Abstract Thinking, Model Thinking
Tagged abstraction, Business Analysis, communication, Complexity, equilibrium, Lecture, Lecture Notes, model, model thinking, Modelling, Page, Scott E Page, Scott Page, Thinker, thinking
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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking I
Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 2: “Intelligent Citizens of the World”: George Box: ‘essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful … Continue reading
Posted in Abstract Thinking, Model Thinking
Tagged abstraction, George Box, Lecture, Lecture Notes, model, model thinking, Modelling, Page, Philip E. Tetlock, Scott E Page, Scott Page, Thinker, thinking
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Human centric Modelling
There is a modelling at the low-end, that we use every day a million times, and there is modelling at the high-end with comprehensive concepts like UML, MDD etc. Both are good to have. Perhaps approaching the modelling topic from the low-end would make it easier accessible for most of the software practitioners. Continue reading
Posted in Model Thinking
Tagged abstraction, abstraction awareness, computational thinking, Language, mda, mdd, model, model thinking, Modelling, modelling theory, software modelling, thinking, Tool, UML
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Complexity Aware Modelling II
Complexity aware people are able to recognize complexity, and regard it over things like size. How do they recognise? Mainly by modelling! Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Model Thinking
Tagged abstraction, analysis, Complexity, computational, computational thinking, model, Modelling, Requirements, State Machine, thinking
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The Model is not the Modeling
Many modeling tools seem better suited for model documentation than for performing the process of modeling. Continue reading
Posted in Software_Engineering
Tagged abstraction, agile, education, siefkes, thinking
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