Wirth’s Law is the rule of thumb that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. This piece covers where it came from, why software keeps getting heavier, examples arou
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The experience curve is the phenomenon in which the cost of making one unit falls by a fixed percentage every time cumulative production doubles. This piece covers its origins, fro
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The law of diminishing marginal utility describes how the extra satisfaction from getting one more of something keeps shrinking. We look at what marginal utility means, how the ide
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How do you find the studies that have cited a paper you are reading? This article explains how Eugene Garfield's citation index came about and what it is, how to search backward an
A handy reference to the Korean Decimal Classification (KDC, 6th edition) used in Korean public and school libraries: how main classes, divisions, sections, and subdivisions work,