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That is not how this task is done by programmers, here's a newsflash: We use Bayes! A lot of it.

(ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network#Inference_and_... )

Translated for 'non programmers: computers don't think the way we do, they look at (big) data, there is no causality.

(ref: for example, if human brain can't diagnose disease, since we are limited in thinking to causality, we use computers: http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.46.4.491?... )

Please don't talk about how computers detect something in big data, if you don't know some math, ex(' causal calculus')

Item to discuss: Getting pulled over and being told, we don't know why we pulled you over, but there's a 85% chance you are non-compliant.

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