Peter Norvig: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

UBC Computer Science · Lecture · 1 h 3 min · 2011 · YouTube title: Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Why it's here

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

What it covers

Peter Norvig's UBC distinguished lecture on how massive amounts of simple data, such as for language modeling, can yield understanding that hand-built models could not.