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January 21, 2014
Uncategorized evil norvig productive serve

I’m going to call this “Norvig’s Commandment” (from this speech): So be happy and productive, don’t be evil, and be glad of an opportunity to serve others.…

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What's better ?

January 21, 2014
Uncategorized better programmingLanguage

Takeaway from http://norvig.com/lisp_talk_final.htm: * Simple is better * Useful is better * Cheap is better * First is better…

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January 21, 2014 1 min read
Uncategorized correlation data discovery

There is now a better way. Petabytes allow us to say: “Correlation is enough.” We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the num…

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January 21, 2014 1 min read
Uncategorized data preconceptions

There’s a famous (well famous in Artificial Intelligence circles, anyways) Zen koan that goes like this: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.…

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Obligatory first post

January 21, 2014
Uncategorized Meta purpose

What goes here? Basically anything that is longer than seven score characters, and that feels noisy when posting to a social network.…

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