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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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These are the so-called supercomputers, led by a smart legion of researchers and practitioners in the fields of data-driven knowledge discovery. As of 2017, the fastest computers have reached a speed of 93 PetaFLOPS, which is: 93×1015, or 93,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. Certainly not!

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

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For example, consider a smaller website that is considering adding a video hosting feature to increase engagement on the site. The fantasy football and video hosting examples, which we will discuss in more detail later, highlight situations where this design might be considered, despite potential complexity in the analysis.