In a world where the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly

*Quotation
2019
Data science
Author

Steve Simon

Published

January 20, 2019

“In a world where the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.” John Tukey, as quoted in “Sunset Salvo”, The American Statistician 1986; 40(10): 72-76. This article is behind a paywall. Sorry!

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