The Reality Club: THE END OF THEORY - The Diigo Meta page

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• 01 Jul 13
  

  gautam_21
  • The sudden flood of large data sets and the opening of entirely new scientific territory promises a return to the excitement at the birth of (modern) Science in the 17th century, when, as Newton, Boyle, Hooke, Petty, and the rest of them
• 19 May 13
  

  Inna

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• 03 May 13
  

  spsanderson

  google theory science

• 02 May 13
  

  Wesley Roberts

  Data Science Introduction

  • The massively-distributed collective associative memory that constitutes the "Overmind" (or Kevin's OneComputer) is already forming associations, recognizing patterns, and making predictions—though this does not mean thinking the way we do, or on any scale that we can comprehend.
  • The traditional way of doing science entails constructing a hypothesis to match observed data or to solicit new data. Here's a bunch of observations; what theory explains the data sufficiently so that we can predict the next observation?
  • It may turn out that tremendously large volumes of data are sufficient to skip the theory part in order to make a predicted observation
  • If you can learn how to spell without knowing anything about the rules or grammar of spelling, and if you can learn how to translate languages without having any theory or concepts about grammar of the languages you are translating, then what else can you learn without having a theory?
  • Science is about understanding. Insight is more exciting than folk remedies
  • Science Fiction Swiftly Outmoded by "Petabyte Fiction"

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• 30 Apr 13
  

  fgruber
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• 09 Jul 08
  

  bfelice

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• 02 Jul 08
  

  ken .

  Conversation about Chris Anderson's Wired article - "I think Chris squanders a unique opportunity by titling his thesis "The End of Theory" because this is a negation, the absence of something. Rather it is the beginning of something" - KK

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