Good thoughts. The general idea is that it's more important to have a good algorithm with a lot of data than a great algorithm with little data.<p>Norvig's "Theorizing from Data" talk is very similar to this one: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/techtalks#/video/video.php?v=644326502463" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/techtalks#/video/video.php?v=6443265...</a> (He gave it several places, including Facebook and Google I/O)