Monthly Archives: March 2021

Directions in clinical guideline programming – CHA2DS2-VASc

Posted on March 29, 2021 by wolandscat

The above shows a typical web form calculator for the CHA2DS2-VASc score, used for estimating the risk of stroke in patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF), primarily for the purpose of deciding the use of anti-coagulant therapy [Wikipedia]. How would such … Continue reading →

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Design-by-Contract (DbC) v Test-Driven Design (TDD)

Posted on March 4, 2021 by wolandscat

Another bit of software engineering knowledge from my archive relates to two well-known formal quality methods used in software development. This is from a presentation made at ETH Zurich in 2010.

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Software – from Development to Use and Ownership

Posted on March 3, 2021 by wolandscat

Here’s an infographic (alright, it’s just a diagram) I created over a decade ago, randomly extracted from the archives. I think it’s almost self-explanatory. Here’s a few more slides using this. I wouldn’t adjust too much today, but note that … Continue reading →

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Nominalism versus Ontology

Posted on March 3, 2021 by wolandscat

Most nominalist arguments are straightforwardly wrong, but not for the usual reasons that universals and/or abstracta are said by realists to exist, but for the opposite reason: types and abstracta are ‘just there’, even if they don’t ‘exist’, in the sense of being spatio-temporally concretised. The real problem is that we misuse the word ‘exists’ at least half the time in philosophy. Continue reading →

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