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> Coming from a data engineering and business analytics background, the terms "structured" and "unstructured" seem to be swapped in meaning here.

Mark Rosewater likes to write about his personal concept of "linear" Magic: the Gathering decks, which are decks in which the cards tend to pick up synergy bonuses from each other, so that having two of them together is considerably more powerful than you'd expect from the strength of those two cards individually.

This always bothers me because it is the opposite of the more normal use of "linear" relationships, in which everything contributes exactly as much to an aggregate as it's worth individually.



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