— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz From ‘Everybody Lies: Big data, New data, and What the internet can tell us about who we really are’ P. 16 … the microscope showed us there is more to a drop of pond water than we think we see. The telescope showed us there is more to the night sky than
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The “beer and diapers” rule has acquired legendary status among data miners…
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 70 Sets of rules are popular with retailers who are deciding which goods to stock. Walmart was a pioneer in this area. One of their early findings was that if you buy diapers
If machine learning was something you bought in the supermarket, its carton would say: ‘Just add data’
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 7 The power of machine learning is perhaps best explained by a low-tech analogy: farming. In an industrial society, goods are made in factories, which means the engineers have to figure out exactly