blindly

This is an interesting presentation from Bret Victor, with some great ideas for how we can support new kinds of data-driven visualisation in software design (with many implications for the design of other ‘programming’ tools):

Bret Victor thinks "people need to work in a space that moves them away from the kinds of non-scientific thinking that you do when you can't see what you're doing – moves them away from blindly following recipes, from superstitions and rules of thumb – and moves them towards deeply understanding what they're doing, inventing new things, discovering new things, contributing back to the global pool of human knowledge."

Visualization and Interpretation in Digital Text Analysis page

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blindly | BrE ˈblʌɪndli, AmE ˈblaɪn(d)li | adverb [wie] blind wie ein Blinder (figurative) blindlings