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CLASSIC: Big Data and You

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Tracking Data in Mesopotamia

There's an accounting system that goes into mon or the growth of a, i don't know, an olive. And so some farmer named a john stamos, very common name in mesopotamia at the time. So this is when they begin saying, ok ouno, john samos has x amount of trees. They yield y amount of of olives each year. This is what we can expect. This iswhat we can bet against. This isWhat we can sell in advance before it's made. Then you get into, we're gaing to jump forward pretty far here, all the way to 16 63. Nothing else happened? Yesat nothing.

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