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Artefacts, practice & knowledge elaboration: an interdisciplinary perspective

Introduction

Two views of artefacts:

• [Artefacts in groups?]
• Artefacts as the prolongation of cognitive systems.

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Positivisme et Constructivisme

Les objets d'étude des SHS et leur connaissance est incertaine. La connaissance des objets physiques peut être incertaine, mais celle des objets sociaux l'est d'autant plus que ces derniers sont des constructions sociales. Double constructions ontologique car l'interprétation dépend à la fois des catégories du chercheur et de

Systèmes complexes : métathéorie. Individus, sociétés, cultures sont des systèmes complexes. Approche qui focalise sur les interactions, imbrication des niveaux, phénomènes émergents, imprédictibilité… changement car réductionnisme impossible.

Deux sources de complexité en SHS :

• Grand nombre d’éléments et interactions, même si les interactions sont simples.
• Complexité des interactions, caractéristique en SHS : comportements, stratégies, intentionnalité…

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Watai tutorial: the DuckDuckGo example

Subject

We’ll present a test for the DuckDuckGo search engine. This engine is just like Google, except that it doesn’t track you, and that it has a nice disambiguation feature: the “Zero Click Info box”.

Let’s imagine we are engineers at DuckDuckGo, and we want to test if a Zero Click Info box is shown for an acronym: “TTIP”.

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I'll try to elaborate a bit more on https://twitter.com/matti_sg/status/522103990373588992 and explain why the Humble Mozilla Bundle is such a noticeable event.

Let's recap what's happening: a non-profit (Mozilla) partners with an indie promotion platform (HumbleBundle) to promote its free open-source tech (asm.js and Firefox). It uses all its communication power for this (social accounts but, more importantly, the Firefox start page that morphs into a game itself). Private, independent actors (the game creators and HumbleBundle) benefit from this, the non-profit does too (portions of the bundle price go back to Mozilla), and most of all the union of such big actors proves the platform can deliver the promise.

Mozilla had done several demos of HTML5 + WebGL + asm.js being a proper platform for

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14:57:59,557 ERROR [openfisca_core.formulas] An error occurred while calling formula individus@reintegration_titre_restaurant_employeur<2015-02> in openfisca_france.model.cotisations_sociales.remuneration_prive.reintegration_titre_restaurant_employeur
14:57:59,558 ERROR [openfisca_core.formulas] An error occurred while calling formula individus@salbrut<2015-02> in openfisca_france.model.cotisations_sociales.remuneration_prive.salbrut
14:57:59,558 ERROR [openfisca_core.formulas] An error occurred while calling formula individus@ratio_smic_salaire<2015> in openfisca_france.model.cotisations_sociales.allegements.function_2012
14:57:59,558 ERROR [openfisca_core.formulas] An error occurred while calling formula individus@allegement_fillon_annuel<2015> in openfisca_france.model.cotisations_sociales.allegements.allegement_fillon_annuel
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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am mattisg on github.
• I am mattisg (https://keybase.io/mattisg) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 4153 9680 D622 BF41 8CFE 53AD D175 0153 BF1B E9D0

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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#!/bin/bash

# Cross-platform Darwin open(1)
# Simply add this function definition above any OSX script that uses the “open” command
# For additional information on the “open” command, see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/man1/open.1.html
open() {
	if [[ $(uname) = "Darwin" ]]
	then /usr/bin/open "$@"	#OS X
	else xdg-open "$@" &> /dev/null &	# credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/264395
	fi

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if ! /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start > /dev/null
then echo "MySQL package installed ? Check http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#macosx-dmg"
	exit 1
fi

echo '[client]
socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock


[mysqld]

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	if echo $1 | egrep -q '.pages\/?$'
	then arg="$1"
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	else arg="$1.pages"
		trimmed="$1"
		echo "source : $arg/QuickLook/Preview.pdf"
		echo "dest : $trimmed.pdf"
	fi
	if cp "$arg/QuickLook/Preview.pdf" "$trimmed.pdf"