Usama Fayyad Quotes

United States, Scientist
1963

Usama M. Fayyad is an American data scientist and co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. He is a speaker on Business Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, and Big Data. He recently left his role as the Chief Data Officer at Barclays Bank.

Also known as Founder

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.

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- People
- Car
- Vision
Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

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- Perspective

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

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- Good
- Brain
Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

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- Time
- World
- Real
There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

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Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

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- Good
- Work