Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier · first published 2013
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Explores the idea of big data, which refers to our newfound ability to crunch vast amounts of information, analyze it instantly, and draw profound and surprising conclusions from it.
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on “Ask HN: Best Statistics / Data mining book?” ↗Also, this book is a great read: https://www.manning.com/books/big-data
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on “Kindle Books are on sale for Cyber Monday, which books should I buy” ↗This sounds like (a simpler version of?) Lambda Architecture [1, 2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture [2] https://www.manning.com/books/big-data
on “EventReduce: An algorithm to optimize database queries that run multiple times” ↗…non-fiction book on the go at the same time. Not just me then :) Currently reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, after finishing East of Eden, which I loved. On the non-fiction front I'm reading Big Data by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Both interesting and compelling in their own ways.
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗…of causation is being challenged by a preponderance of correlations. The possession of knowledge, which once meant an understanding of the past, is coming to mean an ability to predict the future." - Big Data (Schonberger & Cukier) so, knowledge now is allegedly possession of the future, rather than possession of the past. This is because the future and past are structurally the same thing in these models.…
on “Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women” ↗