http://www.kurzweilai.net/is-big-data-the-next-big-thing Accelerating Intelligence Mon, 20 May 2013 06:47:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/is-big-data-the-next-big-thing/comment-page-1#comment-28238 Bri Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:24:24 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=158790#comment-28238 The amount of data coming from your senses is staggering. It's huge, let's face it, huge means well um HUGE! Like the number of post on the cyborg article was huge in comparison to the small trickle of usual posts. It's hard to read all those posts, and filter out the useless info, and get to the truth, or essence of what is being said. There usually is a lot of superfluous info. A lot like spam. Ray's electric piano is like this. The old way to make a violin sound realistic. You would sample a violin played in every imaginable way, then draw upon that HUGE data base to make your keyboards sound like a violin. In practice it wasn't so easy. To sift through all those samples and play the right sound, at the speed of a performance was impossible. At a lecture Ray gave at MIT, he described it as a data compression problem. He used pattern recognition AI programs that he was developing to reduce things down to thier essence. Like a spam filter, it cut through all the, can't see the forest for the trees stuff, and just left the essence or the redux. Ray's keyboard is still the best at achieving a realistic facsimile of other instruments, and the utilization of those AI principals to cut through all the bull, and see what patterns are really behind something. The unconscious mind is really good at that. Hearing is a really good example. In a crowded club, with music blaring, you can isolate a friends conversation. Like a spam filter, your mind can suppress all the non essential sounds, and hear the truthyness of what sounds you are really interested in. All data sets need to be mined. The larger they are, the harder for a human mind to mine them The amount of data coming from your senses is staggering. It’s huge, let’s face it, huge means well um HUGE! Like the number of post on the cyborg article was huge in comparison to the small trickle of usual posts. It’s hard to read all those posts, and filter out the useless info, and get to the truth, or essence of what is being said. There usually is a lot of superfluous info. A lot like spam. Ray’s electric piano is like this. The old way to make a violin sound realistic. You would sample a violin played in every imaginable way, then draw upon that HUGE data base to make your keyboards sound like a violin. In practice it wasn’t so easy. To sift through all those samples and play the right sound, at the speed of a performance was impossible. At a lecture Ray gave at MIT, he described it as a data compression problem. He used pattern recognition AI programs that he was developing to reduce things down to thier essence. Like a spam filter, it cut through all the, can’t see the forest for the trees stuff, and just left the essence or the redux. Ray’s keyboard is still the best at achieving a realistic facsimile of other instruments, and the utilization of those AI principals to cut through all the bull, and see what patterns are really behind something. The unconscious mind is really good at that. Hearing is a really good example. In a crowded club, with music blaring, you can isolate a friends conversation. Like a spam filter, your mind can suppress all the non essential sounds, and hear the truthyness of what sounds you are really interested in. All data sets need to be mined. The larger they are, the harder for a human mind to mine them

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/is-big-data-the-next-big-thing/comment-page-1#comment-28215 Mr.x Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:36:54 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=158790#comment-28215 I once had a friend who said: Big data is big dumb. I once had a friend who said: Big data is big dumb.

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