THE VIDEO SHELF · data-driven machine learning
Peter Norvig at Startup School 08
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- startupschool
- Topic
- data-driven machine learning
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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mindcrime on Hacker News · 2011-07
In Ask HN: What are the best videos to watch about building startups?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] )
brandonb on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Ask HN: Is the semantic web still a thing?
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