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If we had copious data, drawn from a perfectly representative sample, completely mistake-free, and representing exactly what we’re trying to evaluate, then using the most complex model available would indeed be the best approach.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“If we have enough data, I know we can make predictions,”
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
The Master Algorithm is the unifier of machine learning: it lets any application use any learner, by abstracting the learners into a common form that is all the applications need to know.
Pedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Na verdade, trata-se de entender o que a escolha do navegador revela sobre os hábitos deles.
Adam Grant • Originais: Como os inconformistas mudam o mundo (Portuguese Edition)
But over the years, the personalization group started to infringe on the editorial group’s turf. P13N, as it was cleverly abbreviated (there are thirteen letters between the p and the last n in personalization), used analytics and algorithms to generate recommendations crafted to appeal to individual customers based on their previous purchases. Ove
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Hal Varian noted this problem in 1995, writing in a paper called “Economic Mechanism Design for Computerized Agents” that “to function effectively, a computerized agent has to know a lot about its owner’s preferences: e.g., his maximum willingness-to-pay for a good. But if the seller of a good can learn the buyer’s willingness-to-pay, he can make t
... See moreTim O'Reilly • Wtf?

Bernardo Huberman's research group at Hewlett-Packard developed a scheme that first asked each person to bet on what everyone else was going to say.`° This "common knowledge" was then discounted, since it was obviously being counted more than once.
Alex Pentland • Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books)
Some knowledge is straightforward to represent; a lot