tacit knowledge
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On Judgment And Tacit Knowledge
If you follow music production discussions on Reddit you regularly see threads begun by musicians new to music production seeking advice. The musicians have just got set up with some equipment, have begun making tracks, and are noticing the gigantic gulf between the sound of their music and that of professionally-produced tracks. The most common Continue reading
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Creative Notes: What The Tech Does, What We Do
The tech calculates, we wonder What if?The tech measures, we balance.The tech generates data sets, we create ad hoc.The tech recalls perfectly, we remember fleetingly.The tech suggests if this, then that?, we associate by other means.The tech presents patterns, we seek meanings.The tech proliferates options, we seek constraints.The tech makes loops and redundancies, we make Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Nassim Taleb On Tinkering
“It is in complex systems, ones in which we have little visibility of the chains of cause-consequences, that tinkering, bricolage, or similar variations of trial and error have been shown to vastly outperform the teleological —it is nature’s modus operandi. (…) Take the most opaque of all, cooking, which relies entirely on the heuristics of Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Michael Polanyi’s “Personal Knowledge” (1958)
“I shall take as my clue for this investigation the well-known fact that the aim of a skillful performance is achieved by the observance of a set of rules which are not known as such to the person following them.” “Rules of art can be useful, but they do not determine the practice of an Continue reading
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