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		shoyer on Nov 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Troubl... Uh... no. A New Kind of Science is its own special kind of nonsense. For the most part, Wolfram argues that cellular automata are a transformative paradigm for science. It's not about the power of "big data" at all.

saraid216 on Nov 10, 2013 [–]

Huh. All the discussion on HN that I saw on it seemed to revolve entirely around big data. Nevermind, I guess.

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