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It's two parts. The smashing is just gathering raw data. Lots and lots of data. Then "brute force" approach has to do with what can be found in that enormous d
by jameskilton 8y ago
It's two parts. The smashing is just gathering raw data. Lots and lots of data.
Then "brute force" approach has to do with what can be found in that enormous data set and how physicists have, until now, been looking for specific patterns from theories and expectations.
- stingraycharles 8y agoSo then the brute force approach could be an unsupervised pattern recognition algorithm?
- bonesss 8y agoThat's the AI part of the article. Basically, the LHC spits out data so your your Big Data looks small. The first pass was for data confirming/disconfirming some big theories where a specific peek at the data would give meaningful answers. So far the data shows that we had it right to start with. Now, for the next pass, they're expanding how they look at the data to find anything 'unusual'. "Pattern recognition" in this case is a bit harder than just checking for a recurring value, or a "true" in the "Unified theory of everything?" field. We're a bit closer to what we would generally call AI, and at very least some interesting techniques with more interesting followup experiments to weed out false positives.