{"id":170,"date":"2007-07-20T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T17:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-07-20T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T17:42:46","slug":"getting-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/20\/getting-dumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting dumber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Baker at <em>Business Week<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/blogspotting\/archives\/2007\/07\/were_getting_du.html\">points<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffjonas.typepad.com\/jeff_jonas\/2007\/06\/why-faster-syst.html\">post by Jeff Jonas<\/a> on how companies are generating so much data so quickly that companies can&#8217;t make sense of it, leading to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffjonas.typepad.com\/jeff_jonas\/2007\/03\/enterprise_amne.html\">enterprise-amnesia<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Both use this as a call for faster, smarter algorithms.\u00a0 Now far be it for me to be negative about such a cry (I <em>like <\/em>algorithms!) but I think they are missing an important step in the process:\u00a0 the modeling step.\u00a0 Modeling is formulating the objectives, constraints, and decisions in order for the algorithms to go to work.\u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had lots of algorithms hanging around for decades that would address business issues, if only people would create appropriate models to use them.\u00a0 Not every problem needs a fancy new algorithm!<\/p>\n<p>Jonas&#8217; blog has a number of interesting posts on things like <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffjonas.typepad.com\/jeff_jonas\/2006\/02\/what_do_you_kno.html\">persistent analytics<\/a>.\u00a0 This is all from a heavily information technology perspective, but OR should have a role to play in the issues he brings up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Baker at Business Week points to a post by Jeff Jonas on how companies are generating so much data so quickly that companies can&#8217;t make sense of it, leading to &#8220;enterprise-amnesia&#8220;.\u00a0 Both use this as a call for faster, smarter algorithms.\u00a0 Now far be it for me to be negative about such a cry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/20\/getting-dumber\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting dumber?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}