Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: consilience
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Big Bata, Big Challenges, Big Opportunities, and the Reification of Consilience
As with any new approach, the combination of big data and machine learning brings both great opportunities and equally grave risks. Let us reason together.
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Renaissance Teams: Reifying the School at Athens
Listen to the dreamers; share their passion; imagine the future; and invest in their possibility.
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Seeing the Invisible: The Consilience of Knowledge
Seeing the invisible web of intellectual connectedness that binds as a community of scholars is the first step in embracing the consilience of knowledge.
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Being Bilingual: Speaking Technology and Policy
Over the years, I have learned that being bilingual in matters of science and technology and in matters of strategy and policy is far rarer than I might have first hypothesized. How do we cross the intellectual divide, providing technical advice to policy experts in ways that they find useful and actionable?
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Consilience: Innovation Enabler
In this era of hyper-specialization, it is important to remember the combined power of generality and specialization, lest we render true the old joke that education teaches one more and more about less and less until finally one knows everything about nothing and is eligible for a Ph.D. After all, Ph.D. is an abbreviation for…