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	The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date 3.59 avg rating — 1,446 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension 3.52 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World―and Shapes Our Future 3.44 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arc 1.3: Afterparty Overdrive by Sumit Paul-Choudhury (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Simon Ings (Editor), Nan Craig 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arc 1.x: The first year of the future by Sumit Paul-Choudhury (Goodreads Author) (Editor-in-Chief, Contributor), Simon Ings (Managing Editor, Contributor), Samuel Arbesman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“many medical schools inform their students that within several years half of what they’ve been taught will be wrong, and the teachers just don’t know which half.”
― Samuel Arbesman, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

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“Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.”
― Samuel Arbesman, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

tags: facts, knowledge

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“While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far from being so. Rather, the boundary becomes further and further indented and folded over time, yielding a jagged and complicated border, rather than a clear straight line. In the end, the law turns out to look like a fractal: no matter how much you zoom in on such a shape, there is always more unevenness, more detail to observe. Any general rule must end up dealing with exceptions, which in turn split into further exceptions and rules, yielding an increasingly complicated, branching structure.”
― Samuel Arbesman, Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

tags: exceptions, exceptions-to-the-rule, fractals, law, patterns

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