The advantage of probabilistic systems is that they benefit from the wisdom of the crowd and as a result can scale nicely both in breadth and depth. But because they do this by sacrificing absolute certainty on the microscale, you need to take any single result with a grain of salt. Wikipedia should be the first source of information, not the last. It should be a site for information exploration, not the definitive source of facts. | |
— Chris Anderson | |
From his book: “The Long Tail“ | |
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Look First, Not Last
May 22, 2011 by kmabarrett
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