Machine Learning Quotes

“Intelligence seems not to originate from some outlandish formula, but rather from the patient, almost brute force use of simple, straightforward algorithms. It”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning

“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or a foreign language.”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning

“What we lack in knowledge, we make up for in data. We”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning

“Now data is cheap and we are all kings and queens of our little online fiefdoms. A baby born to gadget-loving parents today can generate more data in her first month than it took for Homer to narrate the complete adventures of Odysseus.”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning

“Each of us, actually every animal, is a data scientist. We collect data from our sensors, and then we process the data to get abstract rules to perceive our environment and control our actions in that environment to minimize pain and/or maximize pleasure. We have memory to store those rules in our brains, and then we recall and use them when needed. Learning is lifelong; we forget rules when they no longer apply or revise them when the environment changes. Learning”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning

“In affective computing, which is a field that is rapidly becoming popular, the aim is to have computer systems that can recognize and take into account human affects, that is, the observed manifestations of emotions.”
― Ethem Alpaydin, Machine Learning, revised and updated edition