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Overall I thought the article was interesting!

I did find it funny that multiple times it cited the medical resident match making algorithm as a success. Anyone who has gone through this process knows how horrible of a system it is. You essentially open an envelop that tells your job and location for the next 3-6 years. Hospitals + government love the system because they can artificially reduce resident wages, applicants cannot negotiate job offers.

- Government uses tax payer money to fund a bunch of research (internal and at universities)

- Some publisher paywalls the research

- Taxpayers pay publisher to unpaywall the research

Really dumb system. All research should be open, the CS field is doing this well. All sciences should follow.

+1 on map reduce, thats a classic systems paper.

Surprised no one has mentioned The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. Data is more important than complex domain specific algorithms.