There is a fracture in en.wikipedia.org which might give pause in any enthusiasm about the coming singularity or the use of AI by emergency management planners
While reading a rebound hardcover Fulke Greville on Philip Sidney I was struck by the word on an orphan line at the end of each page: that word matched the first word on the next verso or the next recto page.
This typographic practice in page layout is related to the task of gathering in bookbinding. It's only role as an aid to the reader is that it may have helped ensure that pagination of the book is correct.
The term 'gathering' has no link in the bookbinding article and the term 'catchword' is missing from the relevant articles.
The article on 'catchword' has no relevant "See Also" or other helpful link for a webcrawl.
Now what if I deliberately refrain from correcting this oversight? The current hyperbole concerning melding the social web with the data web might be tamed by more enthusiasts reading Cornelius Ryan's "A Bridge Too Far" with an eye to presuppositions [not following an order and Van Zwangen's 15th at the Schelde; Montgomery's innovation, chance, bad luck, logistics, failure, intention, compliance, risk, emergency management, command,collaboration,messaging,trust,folly,enthusiasm,slaughter.]
Then there is the idea that science is more fundamentally theory of error and measure than else [ but with a strategy for peers to expose liars, lies and frauds as much as falsehoods and fallacies.]
What measure shall we apply to this 'fracture' in wikipedia, this missing branch, failure to connect, and the attendant misinformation such as the quote selected for use in the 'catchword' article? Unintended misinformation recalled as explanation. Hmmm ...
Trivia: how to detect in Google Books the last book published in which catchwords were employed by the printer and bookbinder? Error? Metric? Estimate?
Inspired by hyperbole concerning fuzzy neural nets and 'holistic' computational 'ecosystems' in pseudo-computer science at unb.ca [ or, from simple glaucoma to wartime responses to unforeseeable emergencies as documented by Ryan for the Arnhem glider airborne debacle risk, the unexpected Ardennes counter-attack and the 2010-2011 "Jeopardy" inclusive or multi-paradigm strategy of IBM's "Watson".]
Communication. Logistics. Innovation. Improvisation. False belief. Risk. Evidential value. Connections.
Ivor Winters: the canon and Fulke Greville
Note: the canons of page layout
Innovation: the IBM "Jeopardy" meta-program strategy for "Watson" versus Watson Research and Winchester drives and Bell Labs "escape of COBOL" versus microwave background radiation. C.P. Snow on innovation in bi-plane tail slide and bombing civilians up to and including Wuerzburg [Würzburg].
Of interest: signature and foliation in differential geometry; confer: jet bundles and the space-time metric; Hermann Weyl
ObjectIcon, branching, success, failure, design strategies, text analysis, neglected options, co-routines, green threads. The cable ferry on the Rhine. Antwerp. Self and Strongtalk stranded or suppressed at Sun. Actor and Io.
Google Blogspot blogger labels or tagging limit: 200 characters and 20 tags. Gloss. Annotation. Pull quote. See more text. Detail. Map.
Compare this 'fracture' to noticing a distracting river on a text web page upon changing the magnification or 'zoom'.
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