Operating anew: Queering GIS with good enough software

The Challenge of " Good Enough " Software

This article is a slightly updated version of the the original that was published in American Programmer magazine in 1995. I've changed some of my vocabulary, since 1995, but not the essence of my beliefs on this subject. These ideas are rooted in my experiences at Apple Computer in the late 80's, and Borland in the early nineties. This article was treated as a counter-culture rant in 1995. But...

Because good enough is never good enough

hsr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular anesthesia 2012, Vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] And now for something completely different. Formula one racing drivers need to know the track they will be speeding around to avoid injuring themselves and others, and hopefully ...

Determining Relevance: Close Enough is Good Enough

Humans exhibit characteristic success in considering what is relevant in their cognitive tasks. Yet understanding how relevance is determined in cognition remains a problem. This paper seeks to make headway on this problem. The relevance problem is first introduced. Sperber and Wilson’s influential theory of relevance is then discussed, but dismissed as inadequate. Some conditions are identifie...

Is Good Enough?

Hadoop is currently the large-scale data analysis ‘‘hammer’’ of choice, but there exist classes of algorithms that aren’t ‘‘nails’’ in the sense that they are not particularly amenable to the MapReduce programming model. To address this, researchers have proposed MapReduce extensions or alternative programming models in which these algorithms can be elegantly expressed. This article espouses a ...

Good Enough Answer Algorithms