Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Re:Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effective... by presty on Thursday March 26, 2009 @07:32AM (#533298)

This line of thought follows previous posts on the same subject.

It's very Norvig-esq (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjJTgXujno), but there's also http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h... and also Chris Anderson and Wired's flame bait http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_t... (that month's wired was dedicated to this subject)

And like someone at the previous discussions has said, this is the base of the scientific method, not it's death

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Re:Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effective... by bd on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:38AM (#533508)

Golden quote from Norvig's talk at Startup School:

Q: What's your opinion about semantic web?

A: Semantic web. Future of the web. And it always will be.

Also:

If I assigned engineers to (semantic web) formats based on the percentage of pages that had those formats, then the correct number of engineers for semantic web was zero.

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Re:Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effective... by ntoshev on Thursday March 26, 2009 @07:37AM (#533303)

I would also add the "Theorizing from data" talk from Norvig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4

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Re:Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effective... by andreyf on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:02AM (#533444)

Norvig had a great response to that wired article: http://norvig.com/fact-check.html

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