Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a favorite tech talk showing how huge data availability changes how problems are approached.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

UBC Computer Science

Topic

data-driven language models

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• Peter Norvig on the "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" [VIDEO] I think it is so easy for us to discuss the impact of big data and quickly get into the weeds, but I think in this talk Norvig does an especially great job in making you …

• I am not sure if I disagree with the central thesis of the article, but the argumentation seems rather weak in many places, for example he says: Let's take the example of the number of people who walk into a store and buy a certain …

• If you're looking for more examples and information about using simple algorithms with lots of data, I recommend Peter Norvig's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data": [VIDEO]