Usama Fayyad quotes

“Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.”
-- Usama Fayyad

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“Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.”

“Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.”

“Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'”

“I wasn't a very good teacher.”

Source : "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

“My history's not very good, but did David win?”

“I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.”

“If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com

“Very good laws may be ill timed.”

“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”

“Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?”