19 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2023
    1. This gas in the form of cow “burps” is increasingly the subject of attention for climate activists.
      • measuring methane and showing it is a problem
        • cow farts become an enemy
      • how do we cope with a rewilded world?
        • when all the other animals will also release methane?
  2. Aug 2022
    1. Stigmergy (/ˈstɪɡmərdʒi/ STIG-mər-jee) is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions.

      Example: ant pheromone paths

      Within ants, there can be a path left for others to follow, but what about natural paths in our environment that influence us to take them because of the idea of the "path of least resistence" or the effects of having paved cow paths.

      Similarly being lead by "the company that you keep".

      relathionship to research on hanging out with fat people tending to make one fatter.

  3. Apr 2022
    1. three steps required to solve the all-importantcorrespondence problem. Step one, according to Shenkar: specify one’s ownproblem and identify an analogous problem that has been solved successfully.Step two: rigorously analyze why the solution is successful. Jobs and hisengineers at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, immediately got towork deconstructing the marvels they’d seen at the Xerox facility. Soon theywere on to the third and most challenging step: identify how one’s owncircumstances differ, then figure out how to adapt the original solution to thenew setting.

      Oded Shenkar's three step process for effective problem solving using imitation: - Step 1. Specify your problem and identify an analogous problem that has been successfully solved. - Step 2. Analyze why the solution was successful. - Step 3. Identify how your problem and circumstances differ from the example problem and figure out how to best and most appropriately adapt the original solution to the new context.

      The last step may be the most difficult.


      The IndieWeb broadly uses the idea of imitation to work on and solve a variety of different web design problems. By focusing on imitation they dramatically decrease the work and effort involved in building a website. The work involved in creating new innovative solutions even in their space has been much harder, but there, they imitate others in breaking the problems down into the smallest constituent parts and getting things working there.


      Link this to the idea of "leading by example".

      Link to "reinventing the wheel" -- the difficulty of innovation can be more clearly seen in the process of people reinventing the wheel for themselves when they might have simply imitated a more refined idea. Searching the state space of potential solutions can be an arduous task.

      Link to "paving cow paths", which is a part of formalizing or crystalizing pre-tested solutions.

  4. Dec 2020
  5. Oct 2020
    1. The react community has become a big cargo cult. There are some good ideas in the community and many Bad Ideas™. Paving the bad idea cowpaths lends a sense of legitimacy to these bad technical ideas that is not merited.
    2. I agree that "it feels gross" is a bad reason. "not paving a bad cowpath" is a much better reason.
    3. If the react cargo cult didn't have the JSX cowpath paved for them and acclimated to describing their app interface with vanilla javascript, they'd cargo cult around that. It's really about the path of least resistance and familiarity.
  6. Jan 2019
    1. experiment and improvisation might.

      Indeed, it might. Might it not?

      I'm not being coy or trying to build my annotation count, I'm after something in particular here. Here, experiment and improv are suggested because they might lead to progress. My question is: What fencepost does the posthumanist leave unmoved? Is anything sacred? Is anything best left alone, without being subject to "experiment and improvisation?"

  7. May 2018
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  8. Mar 2018
    1. Cow milk is the primary animal milk that is popular in India due to its ability to boost the immune system and help stimulate growth. With the overall demand for cow milk specifically, the market production processes have drastically deteriorated, giving rise to adulterated and heavily contaminated cow milk.

    1. We all loves milk as it contains protein, carbs and other nutrients in the right proportion which makes it the ideal drink after a tough workout during summers. Instead of drinking chilled water during summer milk is better option which gives you energy. Even you try banana milkshake, mango milkshake, date milkshake these combination is also perfect for those who are in hurry.

  9. Feb 2018
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  10. Jan 2018
    1. Milk is the primary source of nutrition to the new born babies. It is consumed by people of every age. Milk Benefits For Health by its contents like Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, Vitamin A, riboflavin, protein, phosphorous, calcium and potassium.

  11. Dec 2017
    1. With the rise in adulteration and contamination of milk, we need to start looking at healthier alternatives and more trustworthy brands that guarantee the nutritional content and freshness of milk.