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Nguyen: Machine Learning Is the Primary Purpose of Big Data
“So it turns out the reason for big data is machine learning.”
Nguyen: Big Data Is Defined by Learning Thresholds, Not Volume
“So I like something that Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google said when he referred to big data, he says, big data is not just quantitatively different, but it's qualitatively different. In other words, there's something that happens when you have …”
Nguyen: Machine Learning Mirrors Human Learning From Experience
“And the way I think about big data is when machines learn from big data is very much like human beings learn from life experiences.”
Nguyen: Human Intuition Functions Like Parameters in a Machine Learning Model
“Well, what we think of as intuition are actually, you can think of as parameters inside a machine learning model.”
Nguyen: Modern Business Intelligence Uses ML to Predict Unknowns
“You can think of business intelligence going forward as the ability to apply machine learning algorithms to big data, and not just look at past questions, but also future questions, or asking to predict the unknowns from the knowns.”
Nguyen: Big Data Progress Is Driven by Cheaper Tech, Not Smarter People
“We don't necessarily get smarter over time. It's just that certain technologies get cheaper. They get, they become more available. So machine learning algorithms have always been around. The data that exists that you could collect has always been around. But i…”
Nguyen: MapReduce Was Intentionally Designed for Reliability Over Speed
“Interestingly, a lot of people may not realize that MapReduce was designed to be slow.”
Nguyen: Apache Spark Would Have Failed Earlier Due to Memory Costs
“Now Spark, if it was created six, five, six years before its time would have completely failed because memory was so much more expensive.”
Nguyen: Users Abandon Software Tasks if Latency Exceeds Five Seconds
“We had a phrase we call the five second barrier. And if the user can't get something done, you know, within five seconds, they won't ever do it. It's not like they'll do it at, you know, at twice the latency.”