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Ockham-razor

Have a look to web 2.0 spirit

April 21st, 2006 by admin

Searching the web, I found this website. A short example is worth a thousend speeches.

How 2do well, in a great simplicity.

Make an empty box, let the surfers fill it up !! App will be launched like a rocket !

www.43things.com > see the link

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Getting Real, a way of life ?

April 13th, 2006 by admin

Today I’ll begin to tell you about the book I’m reading right now, it’s called Getting Real and it talks about a different way of handling projects leading and creation. It’s huge and captivating ! Getting Real is where Ruby on Rails takes out his philosophy, so It’s something really interesting even if you’re not in the business, ’cause you can apply that way of thinking in a lots of way. In fact, all you need is to find yours.

I’ve been looking at it, found it very pertinent and positively modern.

But we’ll talk about it again for sure palls

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Few words about Ockham’s razor

April 12th, 2006 by admin

[A few words about Ockham’s razor’s theory (also written Occam)].

Ockham’s Razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, from
Occam in Surrey, England.
Occam’s Razor has always been associated with the aesthetic concept of simplicity, in latin it’s ” Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate”,wich we can translate in :

If you face a problem that appears to have more then one solution, the simpliest solution should be the better one.


The razor’s strict form, which prohibits irrelevant assumptions in a given theory, is justified by the fact that all assumptions introduce possibilities for error. If an assumption does not improve the accuracy of a theory, its only effect is to make the theory more error-prone, and since error is undesirable in any theory, unnecessary assumptions should be avoided.

The
common form of the razor, used to distinguish between equally explanatory theories, can be supported by appeals to the practical value of simplicity. Theories exist to give accurate explanations of phenomena, and simplicity is a valuable aspect of an explanation because it makes the explanation easier to understand and work with. Thus, if two theories are equally accurate and neither appears more probable than the other, the simple one is to be preferred over the complicated one, because simplicity is valuable.
The principle is most often expressed as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or “Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”, but this sentence was written by later authors and is not found in Occam’s surviving writings.
It has inspired numerous expressions including “parsimony of postulates”, the “principle of simplicity”, the “kiss principe” (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and in some medical schools “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

Final word goes to Albert Einstein himself, leader in short citations, who said :

We should make everythng as simple as possible, but not more !

So why him , why me.

Well, simplicity in the word for the Ruby way of thinking and I attempt to integrate it to the way I

should run my work. But enough bla-bla, let’s go back to books

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