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This is great. STEM-types seem to link that with enough data, the Truth can be uncovered. This assumes that your data is meaningful, your analysis is unbiased,
by dexwiz 10y ago
This is great. STEM-types seem to link that with enough data, the Truth can be uncovered. This assumes that your data is meaningful, your analysis is unbiased, and that there is a truth to be had. I would encourage everyone to study some postmodernism, specifically Lacan and Žižek. They talk extensively on how our ideology and perception prevent us from ever truly discovering Reality.
The Hyperlogloglog bears a strong resemblance to Isaac Asimov's Multivac in the Last Question [1]. Where the question and the answer, the end and the beginning, are the same thing. Progress is not linear, but circular.
[1] http://multivax.com/last_question.html http://multivax.com/last_question.html
- aristus 10y agoAuthor here. What i gleaned from Lacan was a kind of playful approach to the interaction of language and power. Going too pomo is itself a mistake of course. There really are some solid objective truths out there, just perhaps not all-encompassing.
- dexwiz 10y agoI agree that there are some objective truths, but Big Data is probably not going to find as many as its searching for.