http://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=paulsc 1999-11-13T09:09:28Z http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/limit+casepaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T09:09:28Z1999-11-13T09:09:28Z <p>A term from <a href="/title/calculus">calculus</a>, indicating an <a href="/title/unattainable">unattainable</a> <a href="/title/bounding+condition">bounding condition</a>, which can be approached, but not achieved.</p> http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/data+setpaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T08:59:45Z1999-11-13T08:59:45Z <p>A data set is a group of <a href="/title/records">records</a> related to one another by internal or external means of organization. <a href="/title/Database">Database</a> <a href="/title/programs">programs</a> are designed to store and manipulate data sets.</p> http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/information+spacepaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T08:59:44Z1999-11-13T08:59:44Z <p>An information space is a <a href="/title/data+set">data set</a> navigable by means of an associated or embedded <a href="/title/decision+tree">decision tree</a> by use of <a href="/title/programs">programs</a>. Sometimes refers to the visualation of such combinations into relational mappings.</p> http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/decision+treepaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T08:59:44Z1999-11-13T08:59:44Z <p>A decision tree is a mapping of all possible <a href="/title/choices">choices</a> and <a href="/title/outcomes">outcomes</a> included in an <a href="/title/information+space">information space</a>.</p> http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/richpaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T08:59:43Z1999-11-13T08:59:43Z <p>An <a href="/title/information+space">information space</a> is said to be "rich" if offers its <a href="/title/users">users</a> significant numbers of branches in a <a href="/title/decision+tree">decision tree</a> of <a href="/title/non-trivial">non-trivial</a> depth.</p> http://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc/writeups/use+the+sourcepaulschttp://everything2.com:80/user/paulsc1999-11-13T08:59:40Z1999-11-13T08:59:40Z <p>Beginning programmers are occasionally enjoined to "use the <a href="/title/source">source</a>" when attempting to <a href="/title/hack">hack</a>. Properly commented <a href="/title/source+code">source code</a> should contain basic descriptions of the <a href="/title/logic">logic</a> used to solve a particular problem, and is often a better <a href="/title/reference">reference</a> than other <a href="/title/documentation">documentation</a> as to how a <a href="/title/program">program</a> actually functions, and why it is written the way it is.</p>