Re: Less is more: cognitive bias for adding not subtracting

Thank you Dave'
interesting
some people, including myself, are minimalist by nature
minimalism is also a feature of some eastern cultures, and it is
interesting to see
how different culture benefit and leverage minimalims for different
reasons, in different ways

I would not agree that people do not subtract, unless the study scope and
sample
can be widened, which I may take up!  (ie much broader demography)
However I agree that efficient solutions have been shun possibly because
politics, bureaucracy and economy thrive and justified on speculation

There are many examples of perfectly good simple IT solutions in history
being set aside
in favour of more expensive , coplex ones that would become outdated
Beacuse the industry is designed to grow on these throw away cycles and
profits are made
by instilling the add more mindset to people

Myself and many others could have only survived, mentally and economically
by living on less is more and I must say, it has it costs
take away a brick from the lego tower and it will be shorter,
so the question is understand what is the minimum required amount of
effort/investment
necessary for a system to achieve its purpose?
This is the first question engineers consider


PDM


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 3:59 PM Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:

> In yesterday’s call we talked about a model of sub-symbolic processing for
> mimicking human memory, see:
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> https://www.w3.org/Data/demos/chunks/memory/
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> There were several comments about trying more complex approaches, e.g.
> involving keeping track of all the times a memory is accessed rather than
> just the last, something I argued is biologically implausible, and that we
> don’t need to design in support for rolling back memories to an earlier
> point in time.
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> It there seemed like a happy surprise to see today’s “Nature Briefing”
> with a short video on “less is more: why our brains struggle to subtract”.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y32OpI2_LM
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> My experience has been that when working on an engineering challenge, at
> first it gets more and more complex as you learn more about the problem and
> the associated constraints, but usually at some point this goes into
> reverse as your understanding improves, and you see ways to simplify
> things. The simplest solution to the given requirements is often the best
> solution.
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> What’s your experience?
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> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
> W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things
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