What's The Sequency? - Reductionist Design

Michael Ohene.
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Update: September 03, 2010

Introduction

I recently added the web-based baking application. It identifies bad recipes, performs conversions, and bread baking calculations.

This page is a blackboard of ideas about reductionist design and controlled language; reduction meaning simple not simplistic. This all begins by writing down what would happen if someone actually defined words we use everyday, situations that define everyday, etc. The benefit of reductionism is: intuition, understanding, inherent error checking, and being able to take concise notes that can later be used to reproduce the original intent/item/subject. It is also a means of compressing knowledge to save time and increase accuracy.

Below, I have around 8 sections detailing my projects; some 'preliminary', some 'developed'.

Section 1. Linguistics
'Visual analytics', 'data clustering', 'information architectutre', and other terms are avoided in describing my work, because they are essentially new words for old concepts. What is the alternative? shows revamped engineering terms. The basis of Acrophobia is .

The authors I have referenced include:
Theodor Adorno

Section 2. Knots
Despite thousands of years of knot tying, there is no accepted notation for tying knots. My work is not the popular 'knot theory'. My knot notation () describes how to actually tie a knot. The notation started out as a specialized notation for tying neck ties. This was developed by Cambridge University physicists Fink and Mao, I have since generalized, appended, and slightly redefined their notation. The pdf I have written to explain my knot notation is very preliminary.

Authors I have referenced:
Ashley

Yong Mao

Section 3. Bridges
I wrote a computer program to deal with the mathematical problem of how many truss types exist. With Knowledge Representation, a simple notation, I am able to rediscover the Warren, Whipple, Baltimore, and Low Warren truss. The end result was; using up to 14 web members there are roughly 405 possible truss designs that meet Euler's stability equation, i.e. are statistically determinable.

- is a tar zipped Matlab/Octave program for the file.

Section 4. Baking
There are many bad recipes floating around. These recipes waste our time and money. This can all be avoided by using the Cake-Faced Menace application I wrote.

- Article at CookingforEngineers.com

Section 5. Floral Arrangement
- what makes good floral arrangement for flower baskets, gardens, and landscapes? I visited Chicago's Magnificient Mile (400-900 Michigan Avenue) and derived a pattern for garden arrangement. This is the best example I have of deriving design criteria from physial arrangements.

Section 6. Programming 'Templates'
- Quickly understand and master how to pass any variable in the C programming language by avoiding theoretical programming guides.

Section 7. Lettres

Section 8. Projects on Hold
with respect to electricity price is graphed in the previous link. I hold that electricity use is governed by three main factors: the culture to which one belongs, the temperature, the price of electricity, and therefore has very little if nothing to do with personal sentiments. I have included climatic groupings necessary to show the electricity/price relationships. These climatic groupings were performed using weighted population averages for each state as shown in

Section 9. Box Folding
may predicted by diagrams. The logic of stability is converted into the logic of symmetry. I have put this project on hold, because it appears that the diagrams I use are a bit limited.

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