Quotes About Classification

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

I'm not a labels type of guy, so every time my coach tries to call me a safety, I correct him and tell him I'm a hybrid.

discovered a classification Jorge Luis Borges devised, claiming that A certain Chinese encyclopedia divides animals into: a. Belonging to the Emperor b. Embalmed c. Tame d. Sucking pigs e. Sirens f. Fabulous g. Stray dogs h. Included in the present classification i. Frenzied j. Innumerable k. Drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush l. Et cetera m. Having just broken the water pitcher n. That from a long way off look like flies.

Lists have always implied social order.

Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

The sexual classification of ores and stones was maintained in the alchemical writings and lapidaries of the Middle Ages;

Sensors are classified as proprioceptive or exteroceptive , and exteroceptive sensors are further classified as active or passive

1. Classify the book according to kind and subject matter. 2. State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity. 3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole. 4. Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.

RULE 1. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOOK YOU ARE READING, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO READ.

In the 1400s, people began to use a new word to define a group of animals that shared the same blood: a race.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business.

Kinds are like the dog sort (including dingoes, wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, etc.), cat sort (including lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, domestic cats, etc.), horse sort (ponies, Clydesdales, donkeys, zebras, etc.), and so on. There is variation within these kinds especially since the Flood, but not evolution where one kind changes into a totally different kind over long periods of time — which is not observed anyway (e.g., amoebas turning into dogs).

When objects first became popular, subclassing seemed like a magic pill. First, subclasses were used for classification—a Train was a subclass of Vehicle regardless of whether they shared any implementation. In time, some people saw that since what inheritance did was share implementation, it could most effectively be used to factor out common bits of implementation. Quickly, though, the limitations of subclassing became apparent.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Yo sigo clasificando a la humanidad —para mi uso, que es el que me importa, y que Dios me perdone— en amigos e hijos de puta.

Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind's single greatest achievement." From Candace Fleming's The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

A cloudspotter should hold up three fingers with an extended arm. If the individual elements of the layer are wider than all three fingers, the cloud is probably of the lower Stratocumulus genus. If they are smaller than the width of one finger, then it is more likely to be a high layer of cloudlets, called a Cirrocumulus. It is most likely to be an Altocumulus layer when the size of the cloudlets is somewhere between the two – smaller than three fingers and larger than one.

I have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups.

We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done?

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.