Barrett, Jeffrey, "Everettian Quantum Mechanics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/qm-everett/>

The first two were when I was in elementary school, the last was 20 years later as an adult, when I realized there were new and very good things still happening in the SF world.

We are please to announce that we have passed our first internal milestone (proof of concept) and are proceeding with full development. The initial targets are Java and Postgres, and we hope for an initial public release before the end of the calendar year.

Instead, LocalDate should be reserved for those dates that are applied with reference to a location, but where the location is not tracked or used, particularly for legal purposes. Birth date is the canonical example.

In practical terms for system designers, reification imposes a structure on our systems that is not inherent in the real world.

Terms such as 'slave' represent a similar reification of a violent relationship rather than an objective entity.

In the medical world, the phrase 'people, not patients' emerged at least as early as 1985. The point is that a 'patient' is not an Entity but a reified role in an association, and that it is unethical to treat a person as simply a patient.

And even if, as a group, a typical member has a property, the individual may not.

What properties are shared by all instances of a taxon? Generally speaking, only the property of having a common ancestor (in modern monophyletic taxonomy). There is no property that evolution cannot alter over time (except historical ones, like common ancestry).

This totally broke when we need to model satellites tethered to the space shuttle. You had to integrate the combined state vector together, applying constraint forces (Lagrange multipliers).

We were doing orbital mechanics. Our 'monads' were space shuttles in earth orbit and satellites they rendezvoused with. All forces were massively one way (primarily Earth's gravity and atmospheric drag). Each orbiting vehicle had its own state vector that could be separately integrated.

My 2nd boss termed these as 'monads' (from Leibniz, not category theory or Haskell). Monad-based design works as long as you don't have 2-way interactions or the strength of one direction can be ignored.