Topic: open ended system

7 chunks · 6 episodes

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open ended system appears in 7 chunks across 6 episodes, from 2024-03-18 to 2025-07-21.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 7/21/25 (2025-07-21), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with preferential attachment, search result, and schelling point, while by chunk count it sits between knowledge management and security issue; its yearly rank moved from #158 in 2024 to #160 in 2025.

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Range2024-03-18 to 2025-07-21Mean1.2 per episodePeak2 on 2025-07-21

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In a close ended system, more data gives asymptotic quality improvements.

from Bits and Bobs 7/21/25 · 2025-07-21

In a close ended system, more data gives asymptotic quality improvements. In an open ended system, more data gives exponential quality improvements. The query stream in Google was open ended. The code stream in IDEs / WindSurf is close ended. Most...

Open ended systems must be beautiful in their fundamentals but are often ugly superficially.

from Bits and Bobs 7/21/25 · 2025-07-21

Open ended systems must be beautiful in their fundamentals but are often ugly superficially. A beautiful mess. Close ended systems are often beautiful in their superfi...

Schelling points help counteract the natural diffusion of open ended systems.

from Bits and Bobs 7/14/25 · 2025-07-14

Schelling points help counteract the natural diffusion of open ended systems. They give a point for high-quality things to congeal and emerge. Folksonomies work because their UX allows the potential for schelling points to em...

Open ended systems can't be preenumerated.

from Bits and Bobs 6/2/25 · 2025-06-02

Open ended systems can't be preenumerated. That's what gives them their characteristic logarithmic cost for exponential value curves.

Open ended systems grow with a super linear curve.

from Bits and Bobs 1/21/25 · 2025-01-21

Open ended systems grow with a super linear curve. Close ended systems grow with a sub linear curve. A hyper distillation of Geoffrey West's Scale.[ail][aim]

AI as a top down system is rarely good enough on its own.

from Bits and Bobs 11/18/24 · 2024-11-18

...ystem is rarely good enough on its own. As a generative function in a bottom up open ended system it can do wonders.

Folksonomy combines the best of close- and open-ended systems.

from Bits and Bobs 3/18/24 · 2024-03-18

...reate a tag; there's no top-down structure for the ontology. This gives a fully open ended system. But open-ended systems create a chaotic, diffuse baseline. Folksonomies typically work because the UI adds optional preferential attachment. That is...