Criticism of UML

I came across this interesting criticism of UML today: Why UML fails to add value to the design and development process.

I agree with the author that UML’s lack of integration into automated lifecycle process at both the domain end and the technology end tends to make the documentation a one time island of work.  However, I do not agree that domain specific products have to be developed.  We do not understand sytems well enough yet to make such a conclusion.

The criticism of UML’s lack of ability to generate code is one of the reasons I am in favor of the Associative Model of Data and the Sentences ADBMS at LazySoft.  The schema, form design, query design and results are all built into a single user interface that can be updated in real time and issues such as normalization and denormalization that plagues relational database integrity and performance do not exist.

Icons: Cloud Computing

I am offering these as ideas.  I am sorry but I do not have time to convert them all to individual icons.

The Green Knight’s Quest

If You Don’t Like the Speed, Get Off the Ride

We have lived in “exponential times” since the big bang (if there was one)

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The Brain: Flow

more about “Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow“, posted with vodpod

This is a topic I have thought about quite a bit. I find that I am a focused person and upon achieving flow either at work or in my own study I will not allow that state to be interrupted until the product of my flow is completed. This does not correspond to the work habits of the status quo. It is not nine to five behavior. Consequently, my employers are continually at odds with performance and attendance. My experience of flow is generally not a team experience and I will not interrupt it to accommodate a team experience of flow. I will simply produce my deliverable and go and get some sleep.

Freedom

“You can have my dead body,

but you can never have my obedience.”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

(2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

Universe: Hexahedron Theory Revised

When – Where

How – What

How Much – Why

This is the set of equations I find curious.  As you can see (C)/(C) equals Energy.  Consequently, what are the two higher forms that correlate with Gravity?

Who – Whom

150: A Network Threshold

I was thinking about Malcolm Gladwell’s interesting book Tipping Point and it occurred to me that there is a network that is similar to his “The Magic Number 150″ chapter that says communities break down when the membership reaches 150.

It is the C60 Buckminsterfullerine or a truncated icosahedron.

This interesting little geodesate has 60 vertexes and 90 edges.

In the context of an associative database that is 60 entities and 90 associations or 150 Entity Types.

It is interesting that the most symmetrical of shapes might as a network correspond to the threshold he describes in communities.

Encouragement

“If at first an idea isn’t absurd, there’s no hope for it.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything

I agree with Garrett Lisi. It’s sets and geometry.

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The Lie E8 is a beautiful structure mathematically with 248 dimensions:

However, I think what he wants to achieve is even simpler to model physically.

This is a 3V Icosahedron Geodesate:

This structure gives us 92 vertexes (entities) and 270 edges (associations) or 362 particles.

Employing Occam’s Razor, I suggest that some form of Icosahedron Geodesate theory is more likely the answer.