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Peter Norvig at Startup School 08

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2011 to 2014.
  • Presented by Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google
  • May be out of date. Uploaded 17 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Peter Norvig discusses how leveraging large datasets can outperform hand-written programming and solve complex technical challenges.

Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, talks about leveraging the power of data and recent technical challenges in Google projects.

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What people say. Recommended for its insights into the unreasonable effectiveness of data over complex algorithms.

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On “Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”

This line of thought follows previous posts on the same subject. It's very Norvig-esq ( link to this video ), but there's also link and also Chris Anderson and Wired's flame bait link (that month's wired was dedicated to this subject) And like someone at the previous discussions has said, this is the base of the scientific method, not it's death
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On “Peter Norvig talks how search is evolving, thanks to AI algorithms”

Norvig's talk at Startup School '08 went into more details on this: link to this video They do use SIFT (or at least a variant thereof) for finding and describing interest points, but by itself, there is no geometric matching in SIFT. There are various competing approaches on how do it, although in many cases, you can get very good results even without it. (It's very slow to do geometric matching so people often skip that step, or only apply it to the best matches.) Landmark detection is a recent "hot topic" in computer vision, and given a large enough dataset, it essentially works now for the most part.
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On “How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?”

…is of text will take over the role of sql databases as demonstrated in IBM watson. In manufacturing, the role of programming also diminishing as vision guided robots like Baxter by Rodney Brooks's team take off. All this is a good thing though, programming is slow and data is agile, as talked about by Peter Norvig in his startup school 2008 speech link to this video Startups should aim at doing as little programming as possible and leaving it to data crunching.…
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