Saturday, January 13, 2007

Occam's Razor

Occam's razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or "shaving off", those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. In short, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (law of succinctness):
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem,
which translates to:
entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Wikinomics

Recently, I was reading through the book Wikinomics and realized that the concept of Wiki is amazing. It enlarges the each persons scope of influence as well as the ability to have endless resources. So today I would like to employ anyone who is a designer. I need to create a machine that will presort postage for Bulk Mailing Centers. I am willing to pay for the machine. Presently I cannot find anyone who has created the machine. I am not saying that it does not exist, but if it does not I need someone to help design a postage sorter machine or make one.