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It was Tycho Brahe’s assistant Johannes Kepler who took Brahe’s catalog of systematic astronomical observations and discovered the laws of planetary motion. This established the division between the mining and analysis of captured and carefully archived experimental data and the creation of theories. This division is one aspect of the Fourth Paradigm.
The Fourth Paradigm
Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle
At the scale these companies need to justify their valuations, you’re looking at social instability that makes the current populist moment look quaint. Tens of millions of people, in their productive years, with no economic function, no clear path to one, and a keen awareness that the people who did this to them are the richest human beings who have ever lived.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
If someone were to deny being able to see the mug in front of me, this would seriously upset my sense of us sharing a world together —it would call into question either my perceptual reliability or our basic capacity for mutual understanding. Such moments reveal how much our confidence in reality depends on its apparent availability to other minds.
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