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Metaphors are powerful, especially when used in software design. In this group we will discuss and share our uses and misuses of Product Metaphor, System Metaphor and the general use of metaphor in software development.
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can taking a metaphor to far help?
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hi,
We use metaphors to help us understand a situation.
I recorded a video to think about a self-organising team
[link]
I personally think that this metaphor, is going to far.
yet, that is why I am interested.
What could we learn from the idea of a self-organizing passengers about... more »
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Songs: Smaller Batches in eLearning
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Hi Folks, The music metaphor is a gift that keeps on giving. Here is a blog about how I realized that we needed our tracks to be more like the duration of popular songs: Songs: Smaller Batches in eLearning ([link])
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metaphor's role in human evolution
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[link] Friends -- In the above, Pinker suggests how two simple mechanisms could account for the coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language. From the abstract, he says: "The second hypothesis is that humans possess an ability of metaphorical abstraction, which allows them to coopt faculties that originally evolved for physical problem-solving and social coordination, apply them to abstract subject matter, and combine them productively."... more »
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Automatic detection of "That's what she said" double-entendres
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I thought this group would be interested in this recent paper: That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification, Chloe Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, "We focus on a subtask of double entendre identification: TWSS recognition. We say a sentence is a TWSS if it is funny to follow that sentence with “that’s what she said”. ... We frame the problem of TWSS... more »
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What is the inspiration for a given metaphor?
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Metaphor has been the least tangible of the concepts deemed important
in software development. Most discussions around metaphor detail the
effect that a good one has on development. And only the most
experienced practitioners (Ward, Joshua, Kent, et.al.) can point to
effective ones. Does it follow that software metaphors are not easy... more »
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