Reply #47: The human mind does MapReduce* instinctually, but we are culturally trained to long streams of data. [View All]

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Hence, politicians (and political opinions) find some way of repeating the same damn idea repeatedly, in order to make it "a well thought argument"... when their actual argument is really only a very, very, VERY, simple thought. Repeated endlessly.

*Geek note: MapReduce (which is kind of a brand name, but geeks use it anyways. like "Xerox" no longer means the company) is a big concept in computer Information Retrieval right now (think: search engines, political campaigns, keywords, slogans, synonyms).

Basically, it works (and this is *highly* simplified) as follows: 1. Find words in common to ideas. 2. Group them together.

(I had written a much longer explanation, now deleted, because I'm a bit of an IR geek. It was pointless to post on DU, as most here are not IR geeks).