"Knowledge doubles almost every day!" No it doesn't. "What?" You meant data. "Same thing." It's really not. "Why?" If I sampled a trillion numbers from a unit Gaussian and sent it to you, it's about 8TB of data. But, you see how it's not, 8TB of information, right?"
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Replying to @generativist
Well... it may also be 8TB of information, depending on context, it just isn't 8TB of useful knowledge. ;-)
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Replying to @jwiechers
Reasonable.
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I mean, this is a fascinating subject, actually, especially considering the highly variable usefulness of data generated from e.g. procedural functions or disparate sources. We actually don't know how much "knowledge value" various data chunks have and it's not related to
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I know it's very over-used as an example but this is why meme's are really fascinating to me, and why I thought Database Animals (h/t
@Aelkus and@Brett_Fujioka) is really relevant.https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/dp/0816653526 …3 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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Which we're all busy doing semi-procedurally in meme-land.
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