gist - domain translation & the accessibility of science writing
premise from on scientific technical debt#conclusion Software code is more accessible than science writing because software has a well-defined general-domain, to standardise special-domain composition; and science does not (but ought to) Inaccessibility is one aspect of technical-debt. Refactoring technical-debt, by principled iterative recomposition of special-domain concepts, around standardised principles, primitives and intermediates, of a well-defined general-domain, improves accessibility, productivity and quality. domain translation Consider accessibility as ‘domain translation’ To make writing/ code accessible, we translate from a special-domain, to an implicit general-domain; such that special-concepts are recomposed from more general-concepts; then re-described in corresponding terms....