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5/20/2026 • EN

Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review

Explores the tension between population-level statistics and individual experience, questioning the applicability of averages to personal decisions.

Bayesian Statistics Case Studies Epistemology Evidence Based Medicine Individual Vs Population

Ben Recht

8/25/2025 • EN

Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 2

Explores the 'coordinated attack' problem in distributed systems, linking it to the impossibility of achieving common knowledge in asynchronous environments.

Asynchronous Systems Coordinated Attack distributed systems Epistemology Protocols

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

8/13/2025 • EN

Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1

Explores the concepts of knowledge and common knowledge in distributed systems, starting with the classic muddy children puzzle.

Common Knowledge distributed systems Epistemology Raft Tla

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

3/7/2017 • EN

The mythology of programming language ideas

Explores how historical scientific theories, once considered reasonable, can inform our understanding of current programming paradigms and their potential future obsolescence.

computer science Epistemology History Of Science Philosophy Of Science programming languages

Tomas Petricek

Epistemology Articles

Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review

Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 2

Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1

The mythology of programming language ideas

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