SUO: Re: SUO -- Technical Methodology
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Pat,
The question is whether the procedures of this Group can come up
with formulations that will be respected as standard among people
who already have a clue what is the standard knowledge of technical
terminology, and why it is that way, and within reasonable margins
of error and personal intuition have the expertise that is required
to make an informed judgment about what directions of innovation are
truly novel and which have been mined out a thousand years ago. This
is an IEEE group, and I know that it is part of the standard training
of engineers to learn the basics of probability, statistics, and even
some notion of stochastic processes, so this question is moot among
people who have the minimal training. The thing to be done is to
relate the technically refined concepts to our more informal ways
of knowing the world, not to "recall" the former from office and
return the latter to power. We would only bring ridicule on the
results of this entire proceeding. Except for the occasional
moment of pique -- and this one is almost passed -- I don't
even care all that much anymore what others do, so long as
they index it with their personal stewardship, take some
responsibility for the quality and the results of their
own work, and quit trying to capitalize on the prestige
of disciplines and methods the names of which they have
not earned the right to invoke.
Jon Awbrey
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Patrick Cassidy wrote:
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> On the desirability of voting:
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> Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> > First of all it is not necessary to vote,
> > since a well designed Index should be able
> > to keep track of all the orthodoxies and
> > all the heresies in one easy-to-reverence
> > and easy-to-purge form.
> >
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> When irreconcilable differences are expressed
> on an issue that needs to be decided in creating
> the merged ontology, I do not believe that we
> can determine what is orthodoxy and what is heresy
> without a vote. In particular, it will be
> useful to determine which minority preferences
> are held by more than one participant. The number
> of participants voicing opinions in the discussion
> is not necessarily a good indicator of how
> widespread a preference is.
> I would also recommend that an "index" of some
> form keep track of the variants. That is what I
> presume the IFF and the registry-like structure
> are for. Until those are available, some other
> temporary simpler list of variants can be maintained.
>
> Pat
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