The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific...
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This is a pretty good simple description of how advances in computing power and the amount of data we both have and can process are going to shortly begin changing everything. Genetic algorithms are at the complex end of this, but the simple end is that we no longer have to "solve" problems in the old analytical sense of the word, when we can just "throw the spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks". In other words, insteading of searching for the right pathway to solve a problem, we can try all the possible solutions until one works and we can do it in a short enough period of time to make this approach reasonable. This will change everything. Within a few years, we'll be solving problems at a much faster rate.
