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Previously announced Software Maintenance Institute was finally registered in Ireland (Reg. No. 400906) and its certificate was received yesterday.

Here is the current component structure of various institutions (depicted in UML):

Interface Tags:

IIP Interface of Iterative Publishing
IRD Interface of Research and Development
IDR Interface of Defect Research
IIR Interface of Information Repository
IME Interface of Memetic Engineering

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Some parallels can be seen between the MAP feature of memoidealistic philosophy and ātman in Hindu philosophy situating both inside an individual and Universe.

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This is another description of a memoidealistic philosophical worldview that memory exists in everything, living and nonliving. In its even stronger form, panmemorism is also a theory that memory is a part of itself, thus adding an infinite element (see Memoidealism as Monistic Aspect Pluralism for some illustrations) and providing a foundation for perceived processes.

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Some differences with Anaxagoras philosophy where Mind is a partial substance to distinguish animate and inanimate and is a source of Motion. In memoidealism Memory is a substance that is always present in things including itself and is a source of Process.

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Although everything changes in the philosophy of Heraclitus, its Urstoff, fire, is eternal, indestructable. The same can be said about Memory and its memory fragments. Memoidealism has also some proximity with the notion of everlasting existence of thought of or spoken named objects in the philosophy of Parmenides. Once we think of or speak of something we immediately recall a memory fragment from and, at the same time, commit it to Memory again, perhaps as a different memory fragment, an assembled new memory trace.

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This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in October 2008 - June 2009 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The third volume features:

- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 29 new pattern interaction case studies
- Trace analysis patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1 and Volume 2
- New appendixes

Product information:

• Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

• Paperback: 404 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (20 December 2009)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-43-8

• Hardcover: 404 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (30 January 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-44-5

Back cover features 3D computer memory visualization image.

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The notion of transmigration of memories in Memoidealism has its similarity with Orphicism. The notions of limited (memories) and unlimited memory (Memory), and “things are memories” similar to Pythagoreanism view on Limited and Unlimited, and “things are numbers”.

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Consider this example mapping (taken metaphorically from the mathematical notion of an injection) of one domain of knowledge to another:

This mapping between concepts and ideas was once called “bijectivism” but was trivially described either as one to one mapping between two domains (like physical vs. mathematical) or fusing different concepts together to get another emerging concept. I myself proposed the similar mapping and called it a metaphorical bijection.  

Now consider another mapping metaphorically equivalent to a mathematical notion of a surjection where all constituents of the second domain are covered metaphorically by the first domain:

What we strive for is to establish the complete bijective mapping and reorganize our knowledge of both domains to achieve that:

In diagrams above small boxes can represent sets of ideas, methods, etc. or individual ideas, methods, etc. The established metaphorical bijection can divide sets or combine them if needed. There can be several such bijections, of course, and we can use other methods of inquiry (for example, the scientific method) to choose between competing metaphorical bijections.

Useful mnemonic:

BEIS (B=I+S or to BE IS …)

Bijectionism Equals Injection + Surjection

Another mnemonic:

BET (B=T or to BE Transformation…)

Bijectionism Equals Transformation 

Note also the second letter of Alef-Beis or Alef-Bet, the letter of Light that has interpretation of Creation in Biblical Hebrew.   

More on this later as I need to come back to DebugWare patterns.

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Our Universe is Unhandled Exception Processing saving one huge Memory Dump from a runaway HUC (Big Bang of Hyper-Universal Computation, or simply HUge Computation). The idea came to me some months ago but I decided to publish it after learning today about a “Mathematical Universe Hypothesis” (MUH) from Max Tegmark stating that our Universe is Mathematics.

EPOCH

Exception Processing Of Crash Hypothesis (or Memory Dump Universe Hypothesis)

Note: what a sad feeling I had while simultaneously listening to the Light track from Thin Red Line soundtrack while writing this post…

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If memory is the basis of everything we might think that memoidealism is a kind of dual aspect monism or plural aspect monism, where mind, body and perhaps many other aspects are manifestations of one single memory substance. Or perhaps, memory is the same as matter or the realm of ideas (materialism or some sort of idealism), and memoidealism is the kind of monism. Or memory is the same or not the same as mind or matter and can be associated with one side of dualism. Not at all, memory is the aspect or attribute of mind, body and other substances, possibly itself. This can be illustrated on the following picture:

If there are only 2 substances then we have monistic aspect dualism as an extension of monism, for example, the extension of idealism:

or the extension of materialism (memuonic theory, memuonics):

Therefore, Memory is a substance and an aspect (attribute) at the same time. This is the essence of MAP (Monistic Aspect Pluralism).

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IMM, The Intelligent Memory Movement borrows the following Intel meta-opcode for its slogan:

NoIndirection: MOV OPERAND, IMM ; Memory first, Being second

Please assemble and join me in the direction of this movement!

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I‘m stored, “therefore I am.”

René Descartes, Cogito ergo sum

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On universal memory dumps:

“[…] the first man who noticed the analogy between a” dump “and” an observation “made a notable advance in the history of thought.”

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

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Urstoff of Anaximenes is Air much like Memory in memoidealism. How do concrete objects develop from invisible Air? Through the process of condensation and rarefaction, quality arises from quantity (reduction process). Eternity of Urstoff is one of the main features of Milesian philosophers and memory religion. No additional worlds are possible in their philosophies. They are “materialists” because of their material Urstoff. Memoidealists are “idealists” because of their ideal notion of Memory.

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Indeterminate infinite Urstoff, out of which emerges the plurality of worlds that come and go, is the foundation of Anaximander philosophy. In memoidealism, Memory is indeterminate in the sense that it doesn’t represent determinate material substance. It is actually infinite too. The crucial feature of memoidealistic notion of memory is the fact that coming into existence plurality doesn’t perish. It is saved. In some sense Memory is apeiron of memoidealism.

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Memoidealism is characterized by the unity of philosophy and (computer) science. It has deep roots in practical memory (dump) analysis. The interpretation of observations as memory snapshots (universal memory dumps) leads to the declaration of Memory to be the One (or the First Principle) like Water in Thales practical scientific philosophy. We also observe that processes are memory snapshots as well, through their observational data. We try to understand the plurality of experiences through the unity of memory (the so called Unity in Difference).

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In this part we start our discussion of Urstoff (Ger.), the primitive, primordial and basic element of everything and relation of memoidealism to Ionian school. In memoidealism, Memory serves the role of Urstoff as permanent primary element behind the process of state transition changes (technically speaking). In contrast, Ionians considered Urstoff to be of a material nature, for example, air (Anaximenes), fire (Heraclitus) or water (Thales). This abstraction (abstract materialism) of material elements parallels memory abstraction in memoidealism. Another parallel is the unity of science and philosophy.

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A new book is planned by OpenTask with the following preliminary details:

State and Event: Categorical Foundations of Being and Time (ISBN: 978-1906717643)

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What is the source of our intuition about ∞, or ∞^∞, more powers of ∞, and even ∞ number of powers? I believe that the underlying structure of our Universe or at least a universe as a model of Universe, Infinite Memory, with perceived processes as limits and Time Arrow as a bundle of sequences of memory pointers, provides basis for our intuition about infinite.

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Applying  a mathematical definition of a memory dump to natural systems we can introduce:

Universal Memory Dump

    - a snapshot of observables describing the system.

Similar to software memory dump analysis we need a suitable reader and a set of:

Universal Symbol Files

    - semantical mappings or NDB (Nature Data Base) files.

Therefore we have these two categories of universal memory dumps:

• - Natural Memory Dumps
• - Software Memory Dumps 

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