This article started off well but began to lose me around the time he said:
"Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it confesses."
This is the first time I have seen this formulation of the nature of data. Data is almost always regarded as an input, or a resource, or a substrate, not a being of any kind.
The article generally seems to be less about its title and more about Facebook's business on the whole, and it's an interesting read.
"Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it confesses."
This is the first time I have seen this formulation of the nature of data. Data is almost always regarded as an input, or a resource, or a substrate, not a being of any kind.
The article generally seems to be less about its title and more about Facebook's business on the whole, and it's an interesting read.