The Limitations of Humans (Humans)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 15:13 (4734 days ago) @ xeno6696

You're forgetting an article I think you shared. It takes an equation of 1.5M terms to model a single cell.

What individual human has the capacity to be "plastic" enough to understand an equation with 1.5M variables? in data circles, they talk all the time about "data deluge." This is one example. How about social webs like facebook. the avg user has 200 friends. Can you fathom what that whole network of (1Bn users) looks like? I know I can't. And I study networks.

You are certainly correct about the capacity of your field of work. But don't skip over my concept. Computers are for the grunt work, we bright ones develop the overarching concepts.