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Big Data – Das Versprechen wurde eingelöst

Data Science Blog

Die vollautomatisierte Analyse von textlicher Sprache, von Fotos oder Videomaterial war 2015 noch Nische, gehört heute jedoch zum Alltag hinzu. Während 2015 noch von neuen Geschäftsmodellen mit Big Data geträumt wurde, sind Data as a Service und AI as a Service heute längst Realität! Quellen: Edd Dumbill: What is big data?

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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The existing literature written in English on this story tends to attribute Tu Youyou’s achievements to a solo discovery, an understandable consequence of Tu receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. She studied History of Science at Princeton University and is a Steve Jobs Archive Fellow. Asimov Press (2024).

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Meanwhile, looking at my archives today, I find some “back of the envelope” equilibrium statistical mechanics from that time (though I have no idea now what this was about): But then, in the fall of 1977 I ended up for the first time really needing to use statistical mechanics “in production”.