diff --git a/adages.tex b/adages.tex index bc976c8..96e450c 100644 --- a/adages.tex +++ b/adages.tex @@ -7,20 +7,11 @@ \cardfrontstyle[\LARGE]{headings} \cardbackstyle[]{plain} % plain option centers text -\cardfrontfoot{Adages} +\cardfrontfoot{Accumulated Wisdom} \setlength{\topskip}{0mm} % Eliminates extra space at top of page \setlength{\cardmargin}{6mm} % Increases margin around contents -\newcounter{rule} -\setcounter{rule}{1} - -% A new command in case we want to separate what we use to indicate 'number' -% May need to change this based on the font -\newcommand{\ksep}{\\ \vspace{5mm} No.} - -% Testing - \begin{document} @@ -33,7 +24,7 @@ If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not wort \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Grice's Razor} -As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ (In other words, address what the speaker actually meant, instead of addressing the literal meaning of what they said.) +As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ (In other words, address what the speaker \\actually meant, instead of addressing the \\literal meaning of what they said.) \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Hitchen's Razor} @@ -49,7 +40,7 @@ Explanations which require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be c \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Popper's Falsifiability Criterion} -For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. +For a theory to be considered scientific, \\it must be falsifiable. \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Sagan Standard} @@ -121,7 +112,7 @@ Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Brandolini's Law} -The amount of energy needed to refute \\bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than\\that needed to produce it.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ (Also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle) +The amount of energy needed to refute \\bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger \\than that needed to produce it.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ (Also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle) \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Cheop's Law} @@ -137,17 +128,16 @@ When a measure becomes a target, \\it ceases to be a good measure. \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Gall's Law} -``A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. \\You have to start over with a working simple system.'' +``A complex system that works is invariably \\found to have evolved from a simple system \\that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up \\to make it work. \\You have to start over with a \\working simple system.'' \end{flashcard} \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Godwin's Law} ``As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving \\Nazis or Hitler approaches one.\\ \end{flashcard} -\end{document} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{Ginsberg's Theorem} -\begin{enumerate} +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Ginsberg's Theorem} +\setlist{nolistsep} +\begin{enumerate}[noitemsep] \item There is a game, which you are \\already playing. \item You cannot win in the game. \item You cannot break even in the game. @@ -159,9 +149,93 @@ When a measure becomes a target, \\it ceases to be a good measure. For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD. \end{flashcard} -\begin{flashcard}[]{} +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Moore's Law} +The number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. \end{flashcard} +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Finagle's Law} +Anything that can go wrong, will\\—at the worst possible moment.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ Popularized by Larry Niven +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{O'Toole's Corollary\\of Finagle's Law} +The perversity of the Universe \\tends toward a maximum. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect} +Believing newspaper articles outside one's \\area of expertise, even after acknowledging that neighboring articles in one's area of \\expertise are completely wrong. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Hick-Hyman Law} +The time it takes for a person to make \\a decision increases logarithmically \\based on the number of choices. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Hofstadter's Law} +It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Humphrey's Law} +Conscious attention to a task normally performed automatically can impair its performance.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\(Also known as The Centipede's Dilemma) +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Hutber's Law}Improvement means deterioration—if a company tells you it is 'improving' the service it provides, it almost always means that it will be doing less for you, or charging you more, or both. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Kranzberg's Laws of Technology} +\begin{scriptsize} +\setlist{nolistsep} +\begin{enumerate}[noitemsep] +\item Technology is neither goo nor bad; nor is it neutral. +\item Invention is the mother of necessity. +\item Technology comes in packages, bit and small. +\item Although technology might be a prime element in many \\public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in \\techology-policy decisions. +\item All history is relevant, but the history of technology is \\the most relevant. +\item Technology is a very human activity—and so is the history \\of technology. +\end{enumerate} +\end{scriptsize} +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Leibniz's Law} +If two objects have all their properties in common, then they are one and the same object. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Lewis's Law} +The comments on any article \\about feminism justify feminism. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Pareto Principle} +For many outcomes, roughly 80\% of the consequences come from 20\% of the causes. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Parkinson's Law} +Work expands to fill the time \\available for its completion.\vspace*{\baselineskip}\\ \textbf{Corollary:} Expenditures rise to meet income. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Peltzman Effect} +Safety measures are offset \\by increased risk-taking. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Peter Principle} +``In a hierarchy, every employee tends \\to rise to his level of incompetence.'' +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Poe's Law} +Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, \\any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme \\views can be mistaken by some readers for \\a sincere expression of those views. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Putt's Law} +Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do \\not manage and those who manage \\what they do not understand. +\end{flashcard} + +\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Putt's Corollary} +Every technical hierarchy, in time, \\develops a competence inversion. +\end{flashcard} + +\end{document} + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% Template for ten cards %% + \begin{flashcard}[]{} \end{flashcard} @@ -192,37 +266,3 @@ For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD. \begin{flashcard}[]{} \end{flashcard} -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -\begin{flashcard}[]{} -\end{flashcard} - -v \ No newline at end of file