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The Quest for a Thinking Assistant, Part II

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

The Quest for a Thinking Assistant, Part I

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

Engineering Bravery part II

It is proper for engineers to assess risk in the undertaking of any project, and to monitor the development and implementation of plans to mitigate the identified risks, to raise the probability of success in the endeavor. A standard approach to measuring risk is to