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Mar 22, 2024
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Design (Top 10 Quotes)“But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.” (Niklaus Wirth, “Program…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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There’s No Free Lunch in Machine Learning: 10 Quotes"Consider any of the heuristics that people have come up with for supervised learning: avoid overfitting, prefer simpler to more complex…
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
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Networks: Top 10 Quotes“Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is…
Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020
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Complexity: Top 10 Quotes“In general, complexity and precision bear an inverse relation to one another in the sense that, as the complexity of a problem increases…
Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020
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Complex Systems: Top 10 Quotes“The complexity of a system is no guarantee of its accuracy.” (John P Jordan, “Cost accounting; principles and practice”, 1920)
Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020
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The Butterfly Effect: Top 10 Quotes“[…] the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand-fold. Admit, for instance, the existence of a minimum…
Nov 14, 2020
Nov 14, 2020
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Information Overload: Top 10 Quotes“Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision makers have fairly limited…
Oct 24, 2020
Oct 24, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence: Top 10 Quotes“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” (Alan Turing, “Computing…
Oct 16, 2020
Oct 16, 2020
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Statistics: Top 10 Quotes“There are two aspects of statistics that are continually mixed, the method and the science. Statistics are used as a method, whenever we…
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
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Causality: Just the Quotes“In all disciplines in which there is systematic knowledge of things with principles, causes, or elements, it arises from a grasp of those…
Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020
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Models: Top 10 Quotes“The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of…
Oct 11, 2020
Oct 11, 2020
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Statistics’ Mis(usage): Top 10 Quotes“A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.” (Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, 1840)
Oct 11, 2020
Oct 11, 2020
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Data (Top 10 Quotes)“Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Prediction (Top 10 Quotes)“The aim of every science is foresight. For the laws of established observation of phenomena are generally employed to foresee their…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Graphics (Top 10 Quotes)“As to the propriety and justness of representing sums of money, and time, by parts of space, tho’ very readily agreed to by most men, yet…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Data Analysis: 10 Quotes“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Strategy: 10 Quotes“The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.”…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Maps (Top 10 Quotes)“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Ecology (Top 10 Quotes)“[…] for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to seize on each place in the economy of nature, if any one species does not…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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Swarm Intelligence (Top 10 Quotes)“[….] a great number of […] living and thinking Particles could not possibly by their mutual contract and pressing and striking compose…
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020