Tag: conventions

  • Learning Cybernetics: Working on Ashby’s Transformation Matrices

    Intro I really do not have that much spare time, but I also really wanted to learn more about “Cybernetics”. So I bought (yet another) book, a classic in this case (I think it was first edited in 1956): “An Introduction to Cybernetics”, by W. Ross Ashby (“Ashby” from now on for short). So far,…

  • First Entry: Variables

    Let’s start with the most basic of concepts (maybe): Variables Variables are sometimes overseen as “obvious”. Or at least, “how to name them”. But after some time programming on your own, particularly in languages like R (from my experience at least), you find you could make mistakes. And after a while, you kind of re-use…