Thursday, 14 April 2016

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: To leverage the data revolution we must accept imperfection (Wolfgang Fengler, Brookings)

Reuters/Paulo Whitaker - An aerial view of ovens used to make charcoal from wood is seen in a traditional charcoal factory in the Amazon city of Boa Vista, Brazil, December 2, 2015

Last month, we experienced yet another breakthrough in the epic battle of man against machine. Google’s AlphaGo won against the reigning Go champion Lee Sedol. This success, however, was different than that of IBM’s Deep Blue against Gary Kasparov in 1987. While Deep Blue still applied “brute force” to calculate all possible options ahead, AlphaGo was learning as the game progressed. And through this computing breakthrough that we can learn how to better leverage the data revolution.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/04/14-big-data-revolution-technologies-fengler

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