Suppose you have a patient record table with the attributes shown. Name is an object identifier, gender,

student, and attended a party are symmetric attributes and the remaining values asymmetric attributes.

Assign values of $1$ to $M,Y,$ and P $,$ with F and N set to $0.$

a$)$ Using only the symmetric attributes

$d(Alex,$ Bonnie$)$

$d(Alex,$ Charles$)$

$d(Alex,$ Alex$)$

$d(Charles,$ Bonnie$)$

b$)$ Using only the asymmetric attributes

$d(Alex,$ Bonnie$)$

$d(Alex,$ Charles$)$

$d(Bonnie,$ Bonnie$)$

$d(Bonnie,$ Charles$)$

Write a short $(3/4$ to one page$)$ critique of the paper: "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the

Scientific Theory Obsolete", which has been uploaded to Pilot.

What is the author's thesis or main point? What do you think of that thesis?

Note that this article was written more than ten years ago; have intervening events bolstered or undermined

that thesis?