Continuing the thread of non-linear, non-Euclidian, non-Newtonian thinking here. It looks like chaos theory is making a comeback after 20 years. And about time too. It’s time to put an end to the concept of data-driven certainty. via Chaos Theory in Ecology Predicts Future Populations | Quanta Magazine.
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The problem with our data-driven world | Fusion
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
We live in a messy, non-Euclidian, non-Newtonian world, and all attempts to pretend we don’t have extremely negative unintended consequences: via The problem with our data-driven world | Fusion.
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This is coming from a scholarly publication perspective, but the problems the author describes are almost identical to what we’re facing in broadcasting. In a nutshell, we are generating data at a rate faster than Moore’s Law can keep up with. Unless that rate changes, it’s just going to keep getting more expensive to store […]
Culture Hack Scotland 2011 – Is coding an art?
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This is a talk I gave last year at Culture Hack Scotland on the topic, “Is coding an art?”
Big data won’t save us
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
There’s a lot of focus on “big data” these days after the recent Facebook IPO. The term is becoming as ubiquitous at “the cloud.” There’s a great line in Michael Wolff’s article, “The Facebook Fallacy,” at the MIT Technical Review. “The company knows so much about so many people that its executives are sure that […]
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