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Peter Norvig

(1961) Real Estate Agent United States

15 quotes in 95 categories

Peter Norvig is a real estate agent from the United States, best known for Artificial intelligence: A modern approach.

Quick Facts About Peter Norvig

Born: January 27, 1961
Nationality: United States
Profession: Real Estate Agent
Notable works: Artificial intelligence: A modern approach

About Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google. Norvig is the co-author with Stuart J. Russell of the most popular textbook in the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

ACM Fellow AAAI Fellow

Quotes by Peter Norvig

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do…

Ak 47

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We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

Algorithms

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One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has…

Degrees

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Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into…

Choices

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My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

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Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Data

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More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Algorithms

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All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

Inspirational

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The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just…

Car

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I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the…

Approach

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How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about…

Decision

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When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Cheating

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Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Computer

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Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens…

Dozen

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Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

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