It is the end of science. Science as hypothesis is giving way to science as statistically derived by large data sets. We’re finding in many cases that data mining algorithms applied to loosely specified models leads to better results than finely tuned models derived from theoretical equations [see the unreasonable effectiveness of data (pdf)].
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