In the age of big data, algorithms will be doing more of the thinking for people.

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And the ones who want to believe in the false claim, when they hear this correction, what they're doing is thinking of all the reasons it might not be true.

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Obviously we're using a lot of satellite imagery these days, and this is going to be a major focus of some of the work NASA is doing here at home, thinking about how we can get better information about our own climate.

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"If we were to be thinking about doing any operations in Afghanistan on the ground, then clearly they would be one of the units we would give very close consideration to, " he said.

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People already knew that she wasn't going to be doing anything much, because they had already received signals of what the American administration was thinking.

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In doing so we lead with facts and figures, thinking that the beauty of our logic will be enough to persuade people to see our point of view.

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As I wished, I'd like to get all Earthlings spending a bit of their day looking at data from the Allen Telescope Array to see if they can find patterns that all of the signal detection algorithms may still be missing, and while they are doing that, get them thinking about their place in the cosmos.

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