Algorithms Quote by Steven S. Skiena Download Open image ““In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.”” — Steven S. Skiena ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Algorithms Life Persistence
“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:” — Sara Wachter-Boettcher Copy Share Image
“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.20” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Effective algorithms make assumptions, show a bias toward a simple solutions, trade off the costs of error against the cost of delay, and take… — Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths Copy Share Image
Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.” — Damian Mingle Copy Share Image
“Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of connecting with… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The algorithms would make sure that those deemed losers would remain that way. A lucky minority would gain ever more control over the data… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.” — Steven S. Skiena Copy Share Image
“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources.” — Steven S. Skiena Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.” — Damian Mingle Copy Share Image
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… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image