unsupervised learning

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2017 by Parth Vasa · across every show →

Everything said about unsupervised learning, oldest first

May 24, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Bloomberg limits unsupervised learning to data bootstrapping due to precision needs
“We use unsupervised learning a lot to Sort of bootstrap our data. For example, word to whack, right? It's a perfect unsupervised learning algorithm. We use that a lot to, for query reformulation and all that, but, ah, it's a little risky for something as high …”
Parth Vasa May 24, 2017 ▶ 22:10 How to Train Your Search Engine // Parth Vasa, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Oct 16, 2025 positive
Insight
Tworek: Pre-Training on Unlabeled Data Yields Far More Intelligence Than Supervised Mapping
“There are many more bits usually in the targets than in the labels and studying the structure of targets itself. It yields much more learning and much more intelligence than learning the mapping itself. So like spending a whole compute on just learning the dat…”
Jerry Tworek Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 49:27 How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
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