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The probabilistic age
19 Dec 05 - http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Interesting/ProbabilisticAge.rdoc
Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing?

A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale. Great read