Computation Quotes - Page 3

• Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

  Peter Hilton

  Answers, Mathematics

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• I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Political, Arithmetic

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.474, Harriman House Limited

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• Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ignorance, Acceptance, Odds

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1421, Random House

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• The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

  Steven Pinker

  Culture, May, Superstitions

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.66, Penguin

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• The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation it does is truly incredible, especially for a couple of pounds of meat.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Couple, Brain, Meat

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Powerful, Numbers, People

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, August 9, 2015.

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• We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.

  Susan Collins

  Pain, Body, Pay

  Susan Collins (1996). "Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success", Barrytown/ Station Hill Press.

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• Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

  William Thurston

  Science, Numbers, Understanding

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• Lo que ocasiona tantos errores en los cálculos de los hombres, cuando esperan una retribución por sus favores, es que el orgullo del que da y el del que recibe no pueden ponerse de acuerdo sobre el valor de la bondad hecha.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitud, Amabilidad, Error

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• In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

  Ada Lovelace

  Essentials, Purpose, Influence

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• Me han pedido que explique por qué no me preocupan mucho los temas de amenaza a la privacidad... Una razón es que estos escenarios parecen asumir que habrá grandes burocracias monolíticas... capaces de aprovechar los ordenadores para la vigilancia unidireccional de una población desprevenida. He llegado a pensar que la computación no funciona así. Tener miedo de las organizaciones monolíticas, especialmente cuando tienen ordenadores, es como tener miedo de gorilas muy grandes, especialmente cuando están ardiendo.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fuego, Organización, Preocupación

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• If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Odds, Risk, Investing

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• Los ordenadores son buenos calculando con rapidez y precisión y almacenando grandes cantidades de información. El cerebro, en cambio, no es tan eficiente en el cálculo de números y su memoria suele ser muy imperfecta. El punto fuerte del cerebro es su flexibilidad. Es insuperable a la hora de hacer conjeturas astutas y de captar el significado total de la información que se le presenta.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Fuerte, Recuerdos, Manos

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• Supongo que Paderewski puede tocar magníficamente, aunque no en su mejor momento, mientras sus pensamientos vagan por el otro extremo del mundo, o tal vez se ocupan de calcular los recibos mientras contempla el auditorio. Sé que un gran actor, un maestro de la técnica, puede dejar que sus pensamientos se alejen de la escena.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Arte, Juego, Mundo

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• Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

  Dennis Altman

  Identity, Matter, Manipulation

  Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen

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• Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Dream, Weather, Information

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• Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heaven, Soul, Overcoming

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

  John Allen Paulos

  Teaching, Math, Literature

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• When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

  Epictetus

  Ideas, Imagination, Duration

  "Epictetus his morals: with Simplicius his comment".

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