Andrew Ng

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Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai #machinelearning, #deeplearning #MOOCs

Andrew Ng 4 months ago

Thanks @newsbeagle for writing up our interview on Data-Centric AI in @IEEESpectrum. Worth a read for anyone interested in data-centric development, & also touches on foundation models, big data vs. small data, and practical data engineering.

Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. “Collecting more data often helps," he says. "But if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.”
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Andrew Ng 4 years ago

Recently I've been thinking about the set of books I'd recommend to someone wanting to do something innovative, to create something new. The first is "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel, a very good book that gives an overview of entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those ne
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

<b>Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. <br /></b><br />Eric Ries defines a startup as <b>an organization dedicated to creating something
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.<br /><br />In <em>The Hard Thing About Hard Things</em>, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and ch
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabil
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

With a foreword from Steve Blank, Talking to Humans is a practical guide to the qualitative side of customer development, an indispensable skill for vetting and improving any new startup or innovation. This book will teach you how to structure and run effective customer interviews, find candidates,
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Andrew Ng 7 years ago

Books that had a substantial impact on Andrew Ng's intellectual development

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets--now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle--which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, ea
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