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- Nov 07, 2020
Databases Quotes
Lines on what databases reveal and what they miss.
These quotes question how much a database can really explain about people, arguing real learning happens in minds, not in the records of multiple-choice tests. Big data's promoters get a skeptical look here too.
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- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promoters of big data would like us to believe that behind the lines of code and vast databases lie objective and universal insights into patterns of human behavior, be it consumer spending, criminal or terrorist acts, healthy habits, or employee productivity. But many big-data evangelists avoid taking a hard look at the weaknesses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
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- Nov 07, 2020