Patterns in Knowledge Discovery not data mining: Drug companies take note

Thanks to elearnspace for notice of this knowledge discovery item.

"Instead of mining for a nugget of gold, knowledge discovery is more like sifting through a warehouse filled with small gears, levers, etc., none of which is particularly valuable by itself. After appropriate assembly, however, a Rolex watch emerges from the disparate parts."

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"You run the risk of drowning in data," said W. Nicholas Delgass, a Purdue professor of chemical engineering. "What you really want is knowledge, not data."

.......Discovery informatics depends on a two-part repeating cycle made up of a "forward model" and an "inverse process" and two types of artificial intelligence software: hybrid neural networks and genetic algorithms.

10:14:52 PM    

Online Dictionary of the History of Ideas

This post isn't really covered in the interests of my blogs, but I can take license. It is nice that the 73-74 version is now digitized, but usability was not a factor in creating this version. As a tease for better sales of the new version it's OK

1973--1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

This is very cool, for a geeky intellectual value of cool: the 1973--1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas is online. There's an immense amount of good stuff in there, from people who really knew what they were talking about.

9:01:41 PM