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Chapter 3
Form and Function
[As a writer] it’s a mistake to think you are an activist, champion-
ing some movement. at’s the path to mental stagnation. e job
is just to try to understand what’s going on.
DAVID BROOKS
e New York Times, 2014
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Accelerated Discovery (AD) is to represent
the known world in a given scientic domain. If this sounds overly
ambitious and a bit grandiose, it is meant to. For this is really what sets
AD apart from search and data-mining technology. e necessity for tak-
ing on this challenge is readily apparent: if you do not understand what
is going on in the domain, if you do not relate to the import ...