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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. The first type is metadata from images.