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- 13:24, 29 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template talk:M intro technology metadata (Created page with " ====Pivoting: when a spreadsheet pretends to be a desktop ==== Whether ''substance'' or ''form'' matters more will depend on the application. There will be times where a hierarchy is an overriding priority. But even where we need to enforce a fixed hierarchy, the metadata approach can deliver this, by sequential “grouping” of artefacts according to fields. To group by column A, then Column B, then Column C, is to organise artefacts with a folder-style hierarchy. Th...")
- 12:34, 29 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa technology metadata (Created page with "{{gb|Metadata<li>Excel<li>Dewey decimal system}}")
- 12:34, 29 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro technology metadata (Created page with "====The desktop==== {{drop|I|n 1973, Xerox’s}} Palo Alto Research Center released the “Alto”. This was the first personal computer equipped with a “graphical user interface” (GUI) — computing with pictures — instead of the traditional “character user interface”. If potential users — bowler-hatted bureaucrats who didn’t use computers ''at all'' — were to be persuaded to give up their card catalogue systems, typing pools and reusable manila envelo...")
- 07:03, 29 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Microsoft Excel (Created page with "{{a|tech|}}{{VisiCalc capsule}} ====End-user applications==== VisiCalc was more than just a glorified calculator: it was its own programming language: you could, effectively, build your own little programmes in it to automate tasks. Users quickly became dependent on these little home-made programmes to manage substantial strategic risks. This became a live issue for financial services regulators when they realised many of the financial products that blew up in the [...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 07:00, 29 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:VisiCalc capsule (Created page with "{{drop|I|n 1979, Dan}} Bricklin and Bob Frankston created a new application for the Apple II computer. They called it “VisiCalc”. It was a grid of cells that you could input numbers and text into and then run calculations on by reference to cell coordinates. VisiCalc was, of course, the first spreadsheet program. It is the primordial ancestor of that beast we all now know and love as Microsoft Excel. The brilliant innovation was to separate the...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 13:43, 28 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page VisiCalc (Redirected page to Excel) Tag: New redirect
- 09:59, 27 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Monty Holdem poker (Created page with "Here is a card game. The deck has just three cards: two clubs and a heart. The object of the game is to end up with the heart. The dealer shuffles and deals the three cards face down on the table, in the “river”. The player chooses one card from the river, but it stays face down. The dealer turns one of the remaining cards in the river, to reveal a club. The player now has the choice to stay with her original card, or switch it for the remaining face-down card in...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:24, 27 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Machines of loving grace (Created page with "#tedirectAll watched over by machines of loving grace") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 20:53, 26 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Monty Hall problem (Redirected page to The Bayesian#Goats and Ferraris) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 08:38, 26 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Inferential reasoning (Redirected page to Bayesian reasoning) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 07:07, 26 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Bayesian inference (Redirected page to Bayesian reasoning) Tag: New redirect
- 06:42, 26 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Data is from the past (Redirected page to There is no data from the future) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:40, 26 September 2024 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The past is a different country (Created page with "{{a|stats|}}The past misleads us into believing the world is solvable because the past is fixed, complete, all knowable information is known, there can be nothing unexpected. ''We know what happened ''. When the data is in we can calculate, somehow the probability Lucy Letby there was a serial killer on the ward. Could we have predicted that in advance? All data is from the past. It can do a tidy job of helping us fill in the gaps about the past by triangulati...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit