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“Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.”

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We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing…

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Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

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If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

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We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

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“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the…

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“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something…

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The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated…

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When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal…

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The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

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Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion.…

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“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning…

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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

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With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health…

Cathy O'Neil

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Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time…

Tim Wu

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The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

Jack Edmonds

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No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

Andrew Ng

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“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.”

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I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

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[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Knuth

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Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

Andreas Antonopoulos

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It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Philip Emeagwali

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“We will start by sketching the recursive algorithm and then add details to get to a full description of the algorithm. Footnote : Translation:…

Sariel Har-Peled

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The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

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