Josh Birkholz

Redefining fundraising for the 21st Century.

Posting on analytics, technology, visualizations, fundraising, and other unrelated things I find interesting like Doctor Who, sci fi wierdness, crazy new ideas, and interesting people.




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Principal at Bentz Whaley Flessner

Founder of the analytics group donorcast

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Scientists are developing a computer that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make connections between facts and develop hypotheses.

To be useful, a computer would need to trawl through the in the same way that a scientist would: reading the literature to uncover new knowledge, evaluating the quality of the information, looking for patterns and connections between facts, and then generating to test. Not only might such a program speed up the progress of scientific discovery but, with the capacity to consider vast numbers of factors, it might even discover information that could be missed by the human brain.

Read the article here