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i'm not 100% convinced this author has any idea what an 'algorithm' is.

Algorithms are simply one way of executing on insight, a way that is particularly well suited to large data sets, no doubt.

huh

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Caleb (the author) here. That is a weak sentence for sure. My point here was that there are many sources of data, and not all are massive and easily understood by machines. But for those sources that are, algorithms provide the opportunity to make meaning out of the massive data.

I was on my way to post exactly that.

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