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effectiveness of scaling data and its relationship to anthropology questions [a6644647]

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  • Why do anthropology people care about questions so much?
  • why not the patterns in the code?

  • why "more is different"

    • “More Is Different” 177 (1972): 4.
  • human related sciences have stopped themselves from having simple solutions, but we should not mistake that for no solution
  • almost weissenshaft like, where we believe that with enough comptuation, most of these problems are solvable
  • Halevy, Alon, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data.” IEEE Intelligent Systems 24, no. 2 (March 2009): 8–12. doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2009.36.
  • data even without questions can provide you answers, and even more so, it can provide you actual questions
  • on digital humanities programs - to me digital humanities programs are butterfly collecting, but we can scale to very large

  • obsession with "conversations" and "questions" is largely due to academia incentives, not real answers

    • engaging in knowledge sectarianism in some senses if you define this as a way of carving up knowledge
  • moore's law, econometrics