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am attempting to put together a practical & useful knowledge base that
the students (or anyone) will find Useful--and
NOT be a waste of their time.
Given
the constraints of the medium (and my skill level), making the contents
interesting "enough" is turning out to be an amorphous target--to say the
least.
There
is an old saying that describes my dilemma "You
can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him do the backstroke."
Well,
I'm trying to make him "DO" the backstroke.
I
firmly believe that if it can be done, it will not be my
design that succeeds, as much as it will be by evolution derived of Trial
& Error, and Feedback--again and again;
Converging and Optimizing like a Genetic Algorithm.
At
the risk of belaboring this point: Once upon-a
time, an architect completed a high-rise office
complex consisting of several buildings each separated by a short walking
distance. But he failed to install sidewalks, he only planted rye grass.
He was roundly criticized. Six weeks later the architect returned and installed
sidewalks--right where the tenants had worn pathways: taking their route,
not his.
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