(This post was started sometime in October, 2007. I’ve completed it in March, 2008, but altered the timestamp to indicate its approximate date of conception). I’ve just finished reading Charles Darwin’s first major book, Voyage of the Beagle. This is an account of a 5
The tools I discussed in my earlier post on this topic only attempt to deal with the storage of information. Organization of knowledge, attempts to integrate various facts or propositions, relies upon the human entirely. The toolsare designedto improve the efficiency with which information can
Throughout my career, both as an engineer and as a lifelong student on a large host of topics, I have repeatedly faced the problem of how best to organize information in an external representation to reflect and aid in my internal understanding of a field