Comments on: Admissions of Fallibility http://blog.operator-speaking.com/2010/05/12/admissions-of-fallibility/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Operator http://blog.operator-speaking.com/2010/05/12/admissions-of-fallibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 The Operator Thu, 27 May 2010 16:42:15 +0000 http://blog.operator-speaking.com/?p=5398#comment-1609 Why thank you - years have passed from the time I first read that essay, however, the grain of salt analogy stuck with me and (in the way it will tend to) my Google searching failed to unearth the source on such a common phrase, no matter how many unique (though half-remembered) phrases I attempted to pair with it. "[O]ne microgram of table salt" is a far better unique identifier, though "Carl Sagan" beats even that as a primary key on the essays lookup table. Why thank you – years have passed from the time I first read that essay, however, the grain of salt analogy stuck with me and (in the way it will tend to) my Google searching failed to unearth the source on such a common phrase, no matter how many unique (though half-remembered) phrases I attempted to pair with it.

“[O]ne microgram of table salt” is a far better unique identifier, though “Carl Sagan” beats even that as a primary key on the essays lookup table.

]]> By: ex nihilo http://blog.operator-speaking.com/2010/05/12/admissions-of-fallibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 ex nihilo Thu, 27 May 2010 15:10:22 +0000 http://blog.operator-speaking.com/?p=5398#comment-1608 props on this blog. i think you should have linked sagan on the subject (too) though. of course, you wouldn't want to overdo it on the links so i'll offer it up here: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/sagan_science.html props on this blog. i think you should have linked sagan on the subject (too) though. of course, you wouldn’t want to overdo it on the links so i’ll offer it up here:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/sagan_science.html

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