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0 pointspaviva3y ago0 comments

You're assuming that more data will reveal a hidden pattern, but the fact is that most data, and especially most of the easily collectable data is useless junk.

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yrui3y ago

I think the idea is that if you aggregate enough of this junk, some of the noise is canceled out--possibly enough to recover the signal.

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