CMN 150V S20 Midterm (1-5):– Questions With Fully
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1-02: What paradigm underlies The digital revolution
"computational science"?
1-02: Which is true about the world's In the late 1980's, < 1% of all technologically stored
info storage capacity? info was digital, and now > 99% is digital
1-02: If we would take 5ZB of info and Many times from the Earth to the Sun
store it in books, how far would the
pile reach?
1-02: What does it mean that the Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have
amount of technologically stored accumulated since the very beginning
information "doubles" every 2-3 years?
1-02: What changed in the More people document social reality nowadays
announcement of the papacy from
2005 to 2013?
1-02: The DNA of all human cells less
stored ____ info than digital technology
in 2014.
1-02: What do evolutionary theorists Every time we (life) came up with a new way of
say about the "Major Transitions in processing information, a major transition happened
Evolution?"
1-02: From this social evolutionary Society as a whole has become indispensably
perspective, the digital and the dependent on digital technology
biological are merged when:
,1-02: What's the difference between The other one is about how digital tech changes
his two online courses? society and this one is about how digital tech
changes knowledge production
1-04: The first wave of scientific A small number of interrelated variables
advancements focused on:
1-04: The second wave of scientific Averages of many (rather unknown) variables
advancements focused on:
1-04: Which of the following Complexity is modeled with simple averages of a
statements is NOT true? What we here small number of interacting variables
called problems of:
1-04: Why is it limiting to study society Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too
with the dominant scientific methods complex to be modeled with aggregate averages
from the 19th and 20th century?
1-05: When doing social science, we Networks of people and their tech
study what level of abstraction?
1-05: How and in reference to what At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that
did he use the word "emergence"? can be studied
(pyramid of sciences)
1-06: Who does the Anteater An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary" (a collective
communicate with in this metaphor? intelligence "emerging" from many levels (think
(referring to social emergence) science pyramid) originally from ants)
1-06: What baffled philosophers like How predictable social patterns emerge from a
Kant and sociologists like Durkheim? bunch of individual free will
1-06: What was a main distinction The intention of the individual and collective
made by both economists like Smith intentions of society
and political scientists like Rousseau?
The distinction between:
, 1-06: What did the eminent social More of something (quantitative difference) can at
scientist Karl Marx mean when he some point create unexpected emergent
talked about what others called the phenomena (qualitative changes)
"basic metaphysical principle of
Dialectics"?
1-06: All different kinds of "social How society emerges from individual parts
science" disciplines are fundamentally
interested in:
1-07: What was the main approach He made empirical observations and from there,
toward science adopted by Charles developed ideas
Darwin?
1-07: What did Albert Einstein do in He developed theory, not based on empirical
1905 and 1915? observations, but on ideas and first principles
1-07: How do Einstein and Darwin's Einstein worked on a problem with few variables
methods relate to the "very short (E=mc^2) and Darwin on one with average
history of science" of three tendencies of many observations
consecutive waves that we had
reviewed?
1-07: What is the so-called "digital The digital evidence you leave behind with a digital
footprint" or "digital trace"? interaction
1-07: How do you approach science Data => Analysis => Ideas
through induction?
1-07: Loosely speaking, what term can A directed bet
you use to explain what a hypothesis
is?
1-07: The method that Albert Einstein Deduction
spearheaded in the work on relativity
by going from mathematical theories
over hypothesis toward observable
phenomena is called:
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Terms in this set (148)
1-02: What paradigm underlies The digital revolution
"computational science"?
1-02: Which is true about the world's In the late 1980's, < 1% of all technologically stored
info storage capacity? info was digital, and now > 99% is digital
1-02: If we would take 5ZB of info and Many times from the Earth to the Sun
store it in books, how far would the
pile reach?
1-02: What does it mean that the Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have
amount of technologically stored accumulated since the very beginning
information "doubles" every 2-3 years?
1-02: What changed in the More people document social reality nowadays
announcement of the papacy from
2005 to 2013?
1-02: The DNA of all human cells less
stored ____ info than digital technology
in 2014.
1-02: What do evolutionary theorists Every time we (life) came up with a new way of
say about the "Major Transitions in processing information, a major transition happened
Evolution?"
1-02: From this social evolutionary Society as a whole has become indispensably
perspective, the digital and the dependent on digital technology
biological are merged when:
,1-02: What's the difference between The other one is about how digital tech changes
his two online courses? society and this one is about how digital tech
changes knowledge production
1-04: The first wave of scientific A small number of interrelated variables
advancements focused on:
1-04: The second wave of scientific Averages of many (rather unknown) variables
advancements focused on:
1-04: Which of the following Complexity is modeled with simple averages of a
statements is NOT true? What we here small number of interacting variables
called problems of:
1-04: Why is it limiting to study society Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too
with the dominant scientific methods complex to be modeled with aggregate averages
from the 19th and 20th century?
1-05: When doing social science, we Networks of people and their tech
study what level of abstraction?
1-05: How and in reference to what At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that
did he use the word "emergence"? can be studied
(pyramid of sciences)
1-06: Who does the Anteater An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary" (a collective
communicate with in this metaphor? intelligence "emerging" from many levels (think
(referring to social emergence) science pyramid) originally from ants)
1-06: What baffled philosophers like How predictable social patterns emerge from a
Kant and sociologists like Durkheim? bunch of individual free will
1-06: What was a main distinction The intention of the individual and collective
made by both economists like Smith intentions of society
and political scientists like Rousseau?
The distinction between:
, 1-06: What did the eminent social More of something (quantitative difference) can at
scientist Karl Marx mean when he some point create unexpected emergent
talked about what others called the phenomena (qualitative changes)
"basic metaphysical principle of
Dialectics"?
1-06: All different kinds of "social How society emerges from individual parts
science" disciplines are fundamentally
interested in:
1-07: What was the main approach He made empirical observations and from there,
toward science adopted by Charles developed ideas
Darwin?
1-07: What did Albert Einstein do in He developed theory, not based on empirical
1905 and 1915? observations, but on ideas and first principles
1-07: How do Einstein and Darwin's Einstein worked on a problem with few variables
methods relate to the "very short (E=mc^2) and Darwin on one with average
history of science" of three tendencies of many observations
consecutive waves that we had
reviewed?
1-07: What is the so-called "digital The digital evidence you leave behind with a digital
footprint" or "digital trace"? interaction
1-07: How do you approach science Data => Analysis => Ideas
through induction?
1-07: Loosely speaking, what term can A directed bet
you use to explain what a hypothesis
is?
1-07: The method that Albert Einstein Deduction
spearheaded in the work on relativity
by going from mathematical theories
over hypothesis toward observable
phenomena is called:
