Machine-Centric Science

Donny Winston

Stories about the FAIR principles in practice, for scientists who want to compound their impacts, not their errors.

  1. 09/27/2022

    walk-and-talk: DIKW pyramid/hierarchy

    DIKW pyramid / DIKW hierarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid "Data becomes information when it is stored *in* a given *formation*."From B. Fong and D. I. Spivak, “Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory,” Ch. 3 - Databases, arXiv, Oct. 12, 2018. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1803.05316. "There are only three things we can do with data. We can accrete data by adding it to an existing collection, reduce data by discarding information from an existing collection, or reshape data by placing it in a different kind of collection."From Z. Tellman, *Elements of Clojure*, Ch. 4 - Composition. Monee, IL: Lulu.com, 2019. types of information: situational, methodological, philosophical (epistemological, axiological, ontological)From Dorian Taylor, "2022-05-11 types of information", (May 11, 2022). Accessed: Sep. 27, 2022. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNUNgZ6RTmQ Inductions vs deductions vs abductionsInformed by M. K. Bergman, A Knowledge Representation Practionary: Guidelines Based on Charles Sanders Peirce. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98092-8. "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."From preface to first edition (and included in subsequent editions) of H. Abelson, G. J. Sussman, and J. Sussman, *Structure and interpretation of computer programs*, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

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Stories about the FAIR principles in practice, for scientists who want to compound their impacts, not their errors.