— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 71
Tag: Machine Learning
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
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, & Machine Learning?
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 67 A conjunctive concept is what Tolstoy had in mind when he wrote the opening sentence of Anna Karenina: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
The ‘no free lunch’ theorem is a lot like the reason Pascal’s wager fails…
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 63 In his Pensées, published in 1669, Pascal said we should believe in the Christian God because if he exists that gains us eternal life, and if he doesn’t we lose very little. This
Machine learning is at heart a kind of alchemy, transmuting data into knowledge with the aid of a philosopher’s stone
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 59
When the algorithms now in the lab make it to the front lines, Bill Gate’s remark that a breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts will seem conservative…
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 22 Where Are we Headed? Technology trends come and go all the time? What’s unusual about machine learning is that, through all these changes, through boom and bust, it just keeps growing. Its