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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

“Google’s founding philosophy is that we don’t know why this page is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that’s good enough. No semantic or causal analysis is required.”

It only takes a slight change to make this about sender reputation -
“We don’t know why this sender is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming mail say it is, that’s good enough. No semantic or causal analysis is required.”

24 June 2008
5:16

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