“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.” — Pedro Domingos First person Copy Share Image
“why is it that the simple, abstract language of mathematics can accurately capture so much of our infinitely complex world?” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“They point out that we never know for sure which hypothesis is the true one, and so we shouldn’t just pick one… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“Your digital future begins with a realization: every time you interact with a computer—whether it’s your smart phone or a server thousands… — Pedro Domingos Computers Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo said that all he did was see the statue inside the block of marble and carve away the excess stone until… — Pedro Domingos Computers Copy Share Image
“Bias is a learner’s tendency to consistently learn the same wrong thing.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution automated manual work and the Information Revolution did the same for mental work, but machine learning automates automation itself.” — Pedro Domingos Industrial revolution Copy Share Image
“All knowledge—past, present, and future—can be derived from data by a single, universal learning algorithm.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.” — Pedro Domingos Computer science Copy Share Image
“Evolution is the ultimate example of how much a simple learning algorithm can achieve given enough data.” — Pedro Domingos Biology Copy Share Image
“If computers make us smarter, computers running the Master Algorithm will make us feel like geniuses.” — Pedro Domingos Computers Copy Share Image
“Common sense is important not just because your mom taught you so, but because computers don’t have it.” — Pedro Domingos Computers Copy Share Image
“theorem says that P( cause | effect) = P( cause) × P( effect | cause) / P( effect). Replace cause by A and effect by B and” — Pedro Domingos Cause Effect Copy Share Image
“Before we can discover deep truths with machine learning, we have to discover deep truths about machine learning.” — Pedro Domingos Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“Listen to your customers, not to the HiPPO,” HiPPO being short for “highest paid person’s opinion.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“How many Bayesians does it take to change a lightbulb? They’re not sure.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“By knowing what learners optimize, we can make certain they optimize what we care about, rather than what came in the box.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time we relied on shamans and soothsayers for this, but they were much too fallible. Science’s predictions are more… — Pedro Domingos Time Copy Share Image
“For a Bayesian, in fact, there is no such thing as the truth; you have a prior distribution over hypotheses, after seeing… — Pedro Domingos Truth Copy Share Image
“Thousands of decision tree users can’t be wrong, you think, and sketch one to predict your friend’s reply when you ask her… — Pedro Domingos Friendship Copy Share Image
“Symbolists don’t like probabilities and tell jokes like “How many Bayesians does it take to change a lightbulb? They’re not sure. Come… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in a future cyber-court, in session somewhere on Amazon’s cloud, a robo-lawyer will beat the speeding ticket that RoboCop issued to… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“In this book we will synthesize a single algorithm will all these capabilities: Our quest will take us across the territory of… — Pedro Domingos Adventure Copy Share Image
“Whoever has the best algorithms and the most data wins. A new type of network effect takes hold: whoever has the most… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image