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Old 10-17-2008, 12:35 PM   #55
Danny Fekete
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Because you can probably find lots of good and free information on the web about, say, economics or business. I don't think you'd find it so easy to find such information about electromagnetism or quantum mechanics. You can find good individual articles, yes, but putting it together in such a way that it teaches the subject from start to finish would be very difficult.
Baraniuk addresses this point precisely (starting at 10:05ish). Transcribed from 12:14: "[XML as a backbone for the modular bits of information (the equivalent of your individual articles)] lets you interconnect ideas indicating how fields relate to eachother. . ."
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