Data
2026
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From punch cards to tell-n-code
From punch cards to BASIC to a small army of coding agents: every step made the human-machine interface a little kinder. The latest jump is…
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More is different: my useless PhD just became relevant
Twenty years after a doctorate in complex-systems modelling stopped being good dinner-party conversation, the word at its heart — emergence — has become the word…
2014
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Big data and the bottom-up malevolence
Big data creates value only when it starts with the business problem, not the dataset.