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Peter Norvig at Startup School 08

startupschool · 5.6K views · 2009-01-30 · 25:59

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Overview

Peter Norvig, then Director of Research at Google, talks at Startup School 2008 about leveraging large amounts of data and about technical challenges in Google projects such as image search. A central idea is that data can beat hand-written programming.

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HN points to it as a source for Norvig's 'unreasonable effectiveness of data' argument and for his views on image search and the semantic web.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2009–2014

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brandonb · 2014-10 · Recommendation

Peter Norvig put it best: "The semantic web is the future of the web, and always will be." (For what it's worth, the startup school video that quote comes from is worth watching: [VIDEO] )

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mindcrime · 2011-07 · Recommendation

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marshallp · 2012-10 · Reference

Programming bubble will pop. Automated Machine learning is taking over. Even at google, Jeff Dean has recently stated that his Perceptual AI project is aimed at reducing feature engineering in their machine learning projects. In plain terms this means eliminating the need for programming in their search engines and other machine learning focused projects like google now and google goggles (the mobile app, not google glass). The only programmers left will be to manage cloud computing infrastructure and front end programmers. As things like siri and google now take off, front end programmers will also be in less demand. Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are also increasingly focusing on machine learning. Automated analysis 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 [VIDEO] Startups should aim at doing as little programming as possible and leaving it to data crunching.

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