best practice · standard

a model that was once good enough to stay inside the window but now reports only that the wall has moved

Best practice (noun) means: a model that was once good enough to stay inside the window but now reports only that the wall has moved. It emerges from model, window, wall, drift: self-model. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

ordinarily means: a proven way of doing something well

Examples

• The Therac-25 radiation therapy machine relied on software checks once deemed sufficient, until hardware faults it couldn't detect caused lethal overdoses. engineering
• New York City's 1916 zoning resolution formalized setbacks to allow light, becoming a 'best practice' even as skyscraper density outgrew its assumptions. institutions
• The Linux 2.4 kernel's O(1) scheduler was standard for years, though it failed to adapt to desktop interactivity demands on multicore systems. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

Provenance