Felix Salmon je v Wired pripravil odličen članek o mejah uporabe statistike, matematike in računalniških algoritmov v realnem življenju. Finančno industrijo, športne stave, sestavljanje športnih ekip, marketinško ciljanje, vohunjenje,…, celo predvolilno kampanjo Baracka Obame leta 2012 so poganjali računalniški algoritmi, ki v velikih količinah podatkov (“big data”) iščejo vzorce in na tej osnovi generirajo zmagovalne strategije. Računalniški algoritmi se zdijo kot zmaga statistike nad vsakodnevnim obnašanjem ljudi. Edini problem pri tem je, da to ne drži Nadaljujte z branjem→

We highlight the dramatic degree of the shifts taking place in world GDP and trade and include fresh projections of what world trade patterns might look like in 2020, should the trends observed over the past decade to continue. We also show the resulting shift in trade relationships for many key countries. European member states tend to have quite different trading partners’ profiles, and this heterogeneity is quite likely to become more pronounced with time. This, in turn, suggests a significant challenge for the effective functioning of the euro area and weakens the original rationale of its creation. Nadaljujte z branjem→

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