Geoffrey Hinton Quotes
Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.
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One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
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We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.
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In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the influences that reach and impinge upon it.
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Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.
