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Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method?
TheSauce writes "In a fairly concise one-pager from Chris Anderson, at Wired, the editor posits that all of our current (or now previous) models for collecting data are dead. The content is compelling. It notes that we've entered the Age of the Petabyte — where one can collect immense amounts of data that are paradigm agnostic. It goes on to add a comment from the head of Google's R&D, that we need an update to George Box's maxim: 'All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.' Have we reached a time where all of our tool-sets are now made moot by vast clouds of information and strictly applied maths?"
Until cells, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles start publishing blogs, the scientific method will remain useful.
"WTFey"
I hadn't seen WTF adjective-ised before, but I love it... there's just so much I can use it with. In fact, I gotta go now and tell my boss how my project is going....
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And I hadn't seen adjective verbed!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
He didn't bother writing more than one rambling page because he figured someone said it better somewhere else on the internet and that we're all bound to find it.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god." - Thomas Jefferson
Well, we already know it wants to be free, so maybe now it's just exercising its sentient status in other areas.
Caveat Utilitor
It reads like some sort of brain-damaged new-age technohippy tripe. Yeah, we don't need methodologies any more, because, maaaan, we've got tubes! Gimme a break.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I used to think that I could translate most dialects of bullshit into english
Piping TFA to bs2english yields:
Google is a great place to work, and an even better place to invest money in. Go Google! P.S.: buy Google stock.
This thread is cromulent.
Rule of Slashdot #0: You and people like you are not representative of the larger population. - A.C.
And I hadn't seen anything, I'm blind you insensitive clod!
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I'm not completely retarded.
The data is inconclusive. Let me see what I turn up on a Google search.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Not all data is created equally. You have to ask how it was collected, according to what rules, and with what purpose
I wear a goatee as a result of a small study.
Several years ago after after my marriage unravelled and I got divorced and couldn't as much as get a dinner date, I decided "fuck it, why do I bother buying razors?" and simply stopped shaving.
Then one night in a bar a woman told me I should shave it into a goatee. So I started asking women "goatee or full beard?" and collecting the binary (y/n) data. Of seventeen randomly selected women aged 21 to 70, sixteen said "goatee". The one who said "full beard" was standing beside her boyfriend, who wore a full beard.
My losing streak ended, thanks to pseudoscience!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest