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M.C.Escher 'Drawing hands'

M.C. Escher 'Drawing hands' 

'I have a desire to buy a house, but I do not have the opportunity.
I have the opportunity to buy a goat, but I have no desire.
So let's drink to our desires
Matched with our capabilities!

Toast from the soviet movie "Prisoner of the Caucasus"

Perhaps the reader will be interested to get acquainted with the project The Industrial Ontologies Foundry Proof-of-Concept, which I discovered in the process of working on this article. It is designed to support the computerization of production according to the current industry 4.0 trend. The proposed Ontology of Desires implies the inclusion of similar approaches in its composition, but pursues broader goals:

Prompt trend detection

For example, the increased desire to Normalize Level of:

  • "Life Support / Water" in the context of a person can mean the early stage of diabetes, and in the context of a residential building - a breakthrough of the centralized water supply pipe.
  • "Life Support / Energy" in the context of a person can mean an "inexplicable" awakening of appetite for the majority of the population, and in the context of a car - the need to replace spark plugs or find a gas station that does not dilute gasoline.
  • "Awareness / Email" in the context of a person can mean the beginning of stress or psychological dependence on the Internet, and in the context of the meteorological service - the failure of the GSM module of the remote temperature sensor, etc.

Note that in the first case, the amount of fluid in the human body can be quite normal. Similarly, the desire for an electronic device to "Normalize Comfort Level / Temperature" can mean the need to move it into the shadow, and not the failure of the cooling fan. From the above examples, it follows that the standard method of identifying a problem by interrogating the state of sensors (water, energy, temperature) is not always sufficient. On the other hand, the proposed approach to responding to the desires of entities standardizes, simplifies and cheapens the solution to the problem of determining trends.

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Gurbuz Dogan Eksioglu - art

 

- No, Alice, this is not your favorite movie. "Desire" is a new class of devices of the "Majordomo" family that does not require configuration and is certified to access certain private information. It only needs to be connected to the Internet, the ID of the group that it should serve, as well as its problems and desires. You know - I am far from the best cook, parents get bored and often get sick, the son has a bad score at school. But now !!! Grandfather crosses whisky and drinks only soda. Grandma Sarah has a patient listener to her endless recipe of Fish-Fish. The husband "accomplishes the feat" not once in a two weeks, but every other day. And generally speaking...

He awoke from intense pain. There was an abrasion on forehead, deep night outside the window, and a line was lit on the computer screen:

"Step 17. To set the minutes, hold the button CTRL anddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd"

Alexander Prokofiev "Technorium" (notes on stickers)

Note: Initially, this article was published in the context of the project "DIY Vawoom", which should be interpreted as "Do-it-yourself something amazing." But this name does not reflect its full purpose. From now on, following the "Philosophy of the Common Cause" by N.F. Fedorov, the project is called "Common Business".

In any project that has a human interaction interface, I follow a simple rule - first, work out the frontend in details. Then there will be no problems with the structure and format of the data source. But in this case, I'll start with the backend, since even creating a universal UI template of an online store descriptor involves abstract thinking about them.

Modern rudimentary and sometimes inexplicable achievements of Artificial Intelligence, as well as its support hardware, have caused a short note, which I cited as an epigraph. The title contains the words that end the fascinating narrative of Jeff Hawkin, the founder of many years of research in the field of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). I recommend to see the lecture in its entirety, but because the subject of this article directly concerns ontology and taxonomy, I refer to the moment where it is stated that the principles of HTM are excellent for solving classification problems. The areas of progress mentioned by J. Hawking caused a joking association with the picture at the beginning of the article, not so hilarious reflections on the future limitations of our creativity, and

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Ludmila Lebedeva "Over the Pain"

 

Lyudmila Lebedeva "Over the Pain"

- Son, I have not forgotten. There will be a new Maserati for you and the diploma is almost ready - I will send you soon. Your main goal is to settle there and get ready to take control of the refugees from here. In chess, this is called a "fork." Learn student! - he answered to an assertive voice and hung up. - Growing up boy. Just got a flat in London and still not happy. A big man will be - he thought tenderly, glancing at the Scrum card, and at the same time dialing the number with a plump, sleek little finger. At the other end began breath heavily and noisily through the nose and he said coldly,
- Puffing Leonard? This month you schedule a portrait of a woman. Let's call her Lisa. Or Mona? In general, strain your imagination! - In response, there was a confused mumbling about some kind of helicopter, which he had just completed and needs rest.
- Well, that's it, - he snapped. - I'm sick of your whims. You are no longer needed, - and pressed the call button to the security chief.
- Keep your eyes open! Filter mail, block job search. All that he does immediately to my table. So, even better - no need to pay.
- Provided, boss! Everything is already installed in his shack and we left the pick-up under the windows - from one hundred meters he is in full view. Stegano, DNS-spoofing, pranking in full growth. Dummy does not suspect that he lives in a soap bubble. And will not die of hunger?
- It was realy lucky day when I picked you up at the train station, - he thought, gazing intently at the toes of his shoes, and finished aloud. - Throw him a work as a guard at our warehouse through friends - let him invent there. Do not forget the sorcerer. So, dribbling all the ways ...

Alexander Prokofiev "Technorium" (notes on stickers)

Note: Initially, this article was published in the context of the project "DIY Vawoom", which should be interpreted as "Make yourself something amazing." But this name does not reflect its full purpose. From now on, following the "Philosophy of the Common Business" by N.F. Fedorov, the project is called "Common Business" (further CB).

In this article, I invite you to think about the development of software and hardware, intended to support DIY-style production by individual order. In particular, it may be electronics, but I do not consider platforms like Electronics DIY or DIY Trade, because speaking about precisely flexible, geographically distributed production of a wide range stuff.

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Joomla Language Filter - small

Sometimes there are websites where click on the flag of the required translation language unexpectedly moves a visitor, for example, to the main page, or leaves him on the current one. Probably the necessary page is missing, and the web-designer simply did not take care to notify about it. Modern Joomla has extensive capabilities to support multilingualism in such cases, but there is a nuances.

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