Data Writ Large: Technology, Culture and Collision
Big data and deep learning are the memes of the day, as we shift from a world where data was rare, precious, and expensive to one where it is ubiquitous, commonplace, and inexpensive. Massive digital data, powerful multilayer classification networks, and inexpensive hardware accelerators are bringing new data-driven approaches to discovery, challenging some long held beliefs, and illuminating old questions in new ways. Spanning our social exper...
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