Archive for November 3rd, 2010

On Memory Perspectives

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Memorized states and events look different from varying memory perspectives, for example, some historical event looks different to and interpreted differently by people of varying memory backgrounds. Memuonic version of memoidealist philosophy explains differences in memory perspectives by different memorizing orderings of memuons respective to some base memuon.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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A Periodic Table of Software Defects (Part 0)

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

I have discovered rules that make it possible to devise a memory dump and software trace analysis equivalent of the Periodic Table of Elements in Chemistry. It allows prediction of abnormal software behaviour and structural defects and what patterns to look for after deploying software and collecting its artifacts. More on this is in the next part of these series.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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Close and Deconstructive Readings of a Software Trace

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

There are two trace reading practices with techniques borrowed from structuralist and post-structuralist narratology:

1. Close reading

- emphasizes structural patterns

- looks at a software trace as a unity of messages

- searches for similarities, repetitions and contrasts

- reveals code reflections in message texts

2. Deconstructive reading

- reveals subconscious exposed in message texts

- searches for conflicting and absent messages

- looks at a software trace as a disunity of messages from conflicting components

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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