On Making Data More Digestible for Computers Like Me
My obsession to compare myself to a computer continues. That is I can’t help thinking that we are so much like computers, our brain is the CPU and also the hard-disk [a very very big hard disk] and Life itself is a computer program-written to Run until it completes its task and then self-Delete. And of course the programmer is what you call God. Maybe the whole Universe is one big computer program that has been started. And maybe everything programmed is so advanced that it maintains itself, reproduces itself, heals itself, updates itself etc just like the latest Windows would aspire to.. But back to the subject of what happens to the data we acquire everyday through our sensors [eyes, ears, nose etc]. One important fact very often forgotten is that before data can be turned into information, it needs to be in a form that can be digested by the computer. This is because, when we feed in data for one model, there will most probably be very diverse types. One variable may be in single di...