"The great benefit it has is that it can... thrive on large amounts of noisy data, " he said.

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The alternative is an ever thickening soup of noisy data that obscures information, then ideas, and finally the very sky itself.

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Machines provide sophisticated brute force that turns noisy big data into signals that something important is happening.

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For voice the difference will be a clean completed call or a noisy dropped call, for data services the better the signal strength the higher the data rate you will obtain in both directions.

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That is why most people pay attention to the seasonally adjusted number, as this data series is extremely noisy.

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The Durabook was rather less noisy when it hit, and being turned off there were no worries about data corruption, but it too handled the fall with no issues.

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