precis

• If you want quick precis, here's what I wrote on Open Mind in response to the six points in G&T's abstract: —  RealClimate
• Ghost of Nairn's blog Bad British Architecture, which features this wholly admirable precis: 'I hate how no-one ever talks about how bad British architecture really is. —  sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy
• The target of this operation is much broader than the group of the accused people, against whom there does not exist any material proof, nor even nothing precis which can be to them reproached.
• In this precis, we show how simple building blocks that control information search, stop search, and make decisions can be put together to form classes of heuristics, including: ignorance-based and one-reason decision making for choice, elimination models for categorization, and satisficing heuristics for sequential search. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• It's been a long term project: at school I relished the discipline of clawing the meaning out of a piece of writing and turning it into a lucid and logical precis, and the writing practice is the main reason that I still blog. —  Aphra Behn - danger of eclectic shock

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