"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Last week I wrote a litle thing on how a naming convention can help: people finding stuff; people using stuff at the appropriate Level of Development; people revising such stuff, and recognising its Level of Development at a glance. The decision tree of this process was summarised as follows: It's...
Domanda legittima. Dato che settimana scorsa ho scritto due righe a proposito dei riferimenti normativi obsoleti, qualcuno ha pensato che potesse essere una buona idea mandarmi il suo capitolato informativo per sapere se fosse ben fatto oppure no. A prescindere dal fatto che un lavoro...
How to Craft Names That Keep Humans Sane Whenever I draft a new standard for a company that's transitioning to BIM, I start from the naming convention of files and objects, because if you can't name things, you can't find them, and most certainly you can't...
Welcome back to the normal state of things, and I hope you had a splendid winter holiday. This week, we kick off in grand style by proposing a vision of the contemporary city as a porous collective where human and nonhuman actors participate in shared...
1. The Taste of Water In Dune, Frank Herbert imagined a desert planet called Arrakis, a world so arid that water itself becomes sacred. On its burning sands, the nomadic Fremen survive by recovering every possible drop of moisture from their bodies, air, and even the...
a.k.a. How the Laws of Robotics Foretold the Logic of Large Language Models Introduction – The Machine That Dreamed in Logic Everyone is familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics.They’ve seeped into our cultural bloodstream: quoted in tech conferences, invoked in ethics debates, even recycled in AI...
"The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality." An overview of the series and...
The City Beneath the City There are cities that dazzle with their surfaces, and others that live in the mind. Milan belongs to the latter kind, to me. Beneath its layers of glass, asphalt, and the relentless functionality everybody likes to boast, there lies another city:...
1. Introduction — The Paradox of Standards The dream of a digital commons is as old as the internet itself: a space where information flows freely across boundaries, where collaboration scales beyond organisations, and where knowledge becomes a shared infrastructure rather than a private asset. In...
