Pedro Domingos
Autor von The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
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Pedro Domingos is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest honor in data science. A fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, he lives in Seattle.
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Your Wish Is My Command: Programming by Example (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (2001) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
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"You’ve reached the final stage of your quest. You knock on the door of the Tower of Support Vectors. A menacing-looking guard opens it, and you suddenly realize that you don’t know the password. “Kernel,” you blurt out, trying to keep the panic from your voice. The guard bows and steps aside. Regaining your composure, you step in, mentally kicking yourself for your carelessness. The entire ground floor of the tower is taken up by a lavishly appointed circular chamber, with what seems to be a marble representation of an SVM occupying pride of place at the center. As you walk around it, you notice a door on the far side. It must lead to the central tower—the Tower of the Master Algorithm. The door seems unguarded. You decide to take a shortcut. Slipping through the doorway, you walk down a short corridor and find yourself in an even larger pentagonal chamber, with a door in each wall. In the center, a spiral staircase rises as high as the eye can see. You hear voices above and duck into the doorway opposite. This one leads to the Tower of Neural Networks. Once again you’re in a circular chamber, this one with a sculpture of a multilayer perceptron as the centerpiece. Its parts are different from the SVM’s, but their arrangement is remarkably similar. Suddenly you see it: an SVM is just a multilayer perceptron with a hidden layer composed of kernels instead of S curves and an output that’s a linear combination instead of another S curve."
Had enough yet? There are chapters full of this drivel. This is actually representative even of parts of the book that aren't an acid trip. Just like the rest of the book this passage mentions concepts without explaining any of them and mixes everything together without any reason or structure. Who is this book for? There are in-jokes dotted around like the Jennifer Aniston one or concepts like centaurs (in relation to chess) and neither they nor their backstories are ever explained yet it's clearly aimed at the general reader.… (mehr)