Steven McDonnell quotes

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.
-- Steven McDonnell

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.