Toots from 2023-03-26
“Tight coupling however tends to come with higher efficiency—optimizing away the slack buffer…
“Tight coupling however tends to come with higher efficiency—optimizing away the slack buffers and utilizing resources more fully—and therefore an economical advantage. Coupling can also be created to avoid some frequent low-impact events.
Specifically, the act of “going solid” is what happens when a generally loosely-coupled system reaches a saturation point and suddenly becomes tightly-coupled.”
https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/888958-paper-going-solid
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“For Kuhn, the problems with unrestricted readership were exposed most clearly when it came to …
“For Kuhn, the problems with unrestricted readership were exposed most clearly when it came to the notions of the paradigm and the paradigm shift. The philosophers’ criticisms he considered legitimate….But paradigms-gone-wild in the culture also bothered him; he complained that he had ‘totally lost control’ of the term’s proper usage, and vowed that in future he would ‘seldom’ use it.”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/steven-shapin/paradigms-gone-wild