Samuel Arbesman
Person on 3 sites
Complexity scientist and writer, author of The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated; scientist in residence at Lux Capital.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Since every past era of science was partly wrong, we should recognise we may be too; science is always in draft (opens korrents.com)
“Therefore, according to the pessimistic meta-induction of science, we should recognize that we might be in the same situation. Science is forever in draft form.”
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Overturned findings do not make knowledge entirely uncertain; we are approaching the truth asymptotically (opens korrents.com)
“Of course, this doesn’t therefore mean that everything we know is going to be swept away and that our knowledge is forever entirely uncertain. We are asymptotically approaching the truth.”
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Placing technology in its historical context is necessary for thinking about the future of computing (opens korrents.com)
“But being able to place our technological advancement into a historical context, to understand the path dependence and contingency, to see the long paths that early developments take to become everyday tools—all of…”
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Since every past era of science was partly wrong, we should recognise we may be too; science is always in draft (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Scrivener (opens rcmnd.app)
“And for longer writing projects, such as books, I use Scrivener. Scrivener is an incredible writing tool and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
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Mendeley (opens rcmnd.app)
“For my management of citations and bibliography, I use Mendeley, which is a really good free program that can work with both Word and LaTeX.”
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gephi (opens rcmnd.app)
“For data visualization, I use gephi for networks, an amazingly powerful tool which many describe as "Photoshop for networks."”
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Scrivener (opens rcmnd.app)