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Quote by Vladimir Vapnik
I believe that something drastic has happened in computer science and machine learning. Until recently, philosophy was based on the very simple idea that the world is simple.
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The speaker says that computer science and machine learning have changed how people think about knowledge. They contrast this recent, “drastic” change with an older philosophical assumption that the world is simple. The point is that newer developments may make reality seem more complex than that earlier view allowed.
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