[lbo-talk] Google and the end of scientific theory

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wired Magazine
> 
> The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific
> Method Obsolete
> By Chris Anderson 06.23.08
> 
> "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
> 
> So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he
> was right.
> But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological
> equations
> to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to
> consistently, if
> imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today
> companies
> like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively
> abundant data,
> don't have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they
> don't have to
> settle for models at all.

[WS:] The Library of Babel model, huh?

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

Wojtek