Ambient Findability

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• mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015 · Recommends

  …Hofstadter Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Hofstadter Atlas Shrugged - Rand The Fountainhead - Rand Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin Time Reborn - Lee Smolin Ambient Findability - Peter Morville Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Steven Johnson Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age - Duncan Watts Linked: How Everything Is Connected…

  on “Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?” ↗
• mindcrime · May 29, 2017 · Recommends

  …Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter 6. The Pragmatic Programmer - Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas 7. The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder 8. Code - Charles Petzold 9. The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner 10. Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become Book - Peter Morville 11. Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug 12. The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman 13. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering…

  on “Ask HN: What are some must read books for computer programmers?” ↗
• arkitaip · May 13, 2011 · Recommends

  …Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design Books on web design: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become Bulletproof Web Design Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide Designing Web Usability Designing With Web Standards Designing the Obvious:…

  on “Ask HN: Typography—How?” ↗
• bravura · Feb 20, 2010 · Mentions

  …imcompleteness. Tugging on the string and trying to resolve inconsistencies leads to more special cases and more descriptions, which in turn lead to more special cases and more descriptions, and so on. In "Ambient Findability", a book on the future of information finding, author Peter Morville calls Knowledge Representation the "quagmire" of good old-fashioned AI. There is a certain benefit to the formal representations used…

  on “RDF Semantic web research isn't working” ↗
• yaddayadda · Feb 4, 2015 · Mentions

  …makeing me crave cheese omelets, this reminded me of Google's flu trend service - http://www.google.org/flutrends/ . It also reminds me of "Ambient Findablity" by Peter Morville - http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-What-Changes-Becom... .

  on “How FEMA Uses Waffle House to Measure Disasters” ↗
• maximumwage · Jul 26, 2010 · Mentions

  Why not just give in to information addiction? Unlike many other addictions, there's the possibility that the knowledge gained from it could lead to beneficial outcomes. As the book "Ambient Findability" says: what we find changes who we become.

  on “The Acceleration of Addictiveness” ↗