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+\cardfrontfoot{Accumulated Wisdom}
 
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 \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.)
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 \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Hitchen's Razor}
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 \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.
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 \begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Sagan Standard}
@@ -121,7 +112,7 @@ Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
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 \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)
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 \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Cheop's Law}
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 \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.''
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 \begin{flashcard}[Law]{Godwin's Law}
 ``As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving \\Nazis or Hitler approaches one.\\
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+\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Ginsberg's Theorem}
-
+\setlist{nolistsep}
-\begin{flashcard}[]{Ginsberg's Theorem}
+\begin{enumerate}[noitemsep]
-\begin{enumerate}
 \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.
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-\begin{flashcard}[]{}
+\begin{flashcard}[Observation]{Moore's Law}
+The number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
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+\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}
+
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