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November 03, 2003

More MetaMetaness

Earl Mardle reflects on metadata and the value of vagueness, commenting on Jay Fienberg's commentary on my article. He puts well the way in which metadata is linguistic and thus ambiguous.

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 3, 2003 01:03 AM

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I'm enjoying Jay Fienberg's Blog iCite, as much for what he starts me thinking about as for what he says himself. Here's a sample There is, however, an idealism that, given enough charts and tables and maps of data, cross-referenced [Read More]

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When compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.

Posted by: Felix | January 13, 2004 10:44 AM

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