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Ten years of my life's work
By Sabine Mcneill of 3D Metrics
The invitation to think about the last ten years could make me weep, for it seems as if I've been banging my head against one wall after another. But the truth is that what I began in November 1996 was still far less developed by 2000 than it is today. In fact, this morning I decided to formulate an article on measuring to explain the new software framework that I've come up with. There seem to be quite a few stepping stones between an isolated insight and the thought patterns in between, before they become words that can form an article, a patent description or even a marketable product. My years of "software-aided thinking" have resulted in oodles of files on three computers and four laptops, always keeping up with the underlying technologies. But it is also a sad sign of our times that inventors tend to be lonely and isolated while all talk of innovation is for those who are already in paid positions. The real consolation for all my struggles is that mental challenges continue to be interesting and exciting. There is always something new that links to what I've done before, especially thanks to the net and the web where I explore one possibility of "shaping ideas and information" after another. Blogging is part of that lifelong learning and at the turn of the decade one must wonder what life will feel like in 2020... With best wishes for the next decade,
Sabine
I studied maths and computing in Germany, worked as a software diagnostician at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) in Geneva and became an event organiser and online activist. During the last 13 years I practised "software-aided thinking" and came up with astonishing insights that have to be expressed as software. That's my innovation to science, through technology!
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Contributor's Note
Just another intel as we are passing from 2000-2009 to 2010-2019...
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Hi Sabine,
Once again your intel is very interesting and an enjoyable read.
I'm just starting to develop a blog and hopefully can make it beneficial to others.
Have a Healthy, Happy New Year and beyond.
Frederick
Very beautiful post :). The internet world and its progress is amazing and it really makes us wonder how things will be like in 2020, as you said. Happy New Year Sabine. Joanna from Greece
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THANKS to both of you, Frederick and Joanna! It's good for me to 'know' you as I'm out in a village which is great for nature and quality relationships. But not so great for 'events' and meetings. The net is a superb substitute! Happy New 2010, as we'll keep our finger on the buttons of the web... Use Wordpress, Frederick! Distinctly the best blogging platform. S
It sounds interesting Sabine, I'd like to know more about 'software-aided thinking'. I studied Computer Science (in New Zealand) and one course that I did in particular in which I learned to create an interpreted language and build the interpreter for it, changed the why that I thought quite noticeably. I don't know if it's still influencing my thinking now several years later, but it was a very interesting and enjoyable experience.
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Hm, interesting, Donna, for me, I find that I'm using software as a painter uses a paintbrush. BUT every piece of software 'forces' me to express my thoughts in different ways, and, above all, reflects them back to me - as in a painting or a publication. Visio diagrams, Freemind mind maps, graphics and even a vocabulary with Excel - all great alternatives to texts that tend to be 'less to the point'. Hence Powerpoint also 'forces' you to get to the point. And thus I explored different topics with different pieces of software, while hardly ever writing long texts or articles. Does that explain what I mean? With best wishes for a Happy 2010, Sabine
Everything awesome goes through a painful and long evolutionary process. I took a peek at your website and it seems your software does image interpretation. As the ubiquity of captcha proves, that's the one frontier where technology has a lot of room to grow. Wish you all the best. And Happy New Year!
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How most lovely, Nick, THANK YOU! Yes, yes, good comparison: the human eye's capacity of CAPTCHUing... I'm glad about your understanding! With best wishes for a Happy 2010, Sabine
Hi Sabine, ah I see what you mean now from that explanation. Thank you.
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