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Peter Norvig: Theorizing from Data

GoogleDeveloperDay · Talk · 53 min · 2007 · YouTube title: Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data
Why it's here

HN recommends it as the clear explanation of why Google's statistical, data-first approach works.

What it covers

Peter Norvig's 2007 Google talk on theorizing from data, covering what huge datasets can do for language understanding, translation, information extraction and inference. It argues that more data often beats cleverer models.