Hadoop disrupted, and in some ways became synonymous with big data, by offering a framework for cheap storage and scale out processing. Parallel to Hadoop came the flurry of NoSQL solutions that also ...

Francis Bacon was a philosopher of science when there wasn’t much real science going on to philosophize about. Four centuries ago, decades before Newton established the laws of motion and gravity, ...

Information theory provides the fundamental framework for understanding and designing data compression algorithms. At its core lies the concept of entropy, a quantitative measure that reflects the ...

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Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.