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Submission + - Google Begat The End Of The Scientific Method?

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TheSauce
TheSauce writes: "In a fairly concise one-pager > from Chris Anderson, at Wired, the editor posits that all of our current (or now previous) models for collecting data are dead.
The content is compelling. It notes that we've entered the Age of the Petabyte — where one can collect intense amounts of data that is paradigm agnostic. It goes on to add a comment from the head of Google's R&D, that we need an "update to George Box's maxim: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them." Have we reached a time where all of our tool-sets are now made moot by vast clouds of information and strictly applied maths?"

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