norvig vindicated
Similarly if you look at the history of linguistics and the Chomsky-Norvig debate, and consider the Chomsky side of the debate to be the expert, when subsequent events have vindicated Norvig entirely.
norvig.com/chomsky.html
norvig.com/chomsky.html
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
norvig.com
September 17, 2026 at 11:42 PM
norvig vindicated
Similarly if you look at the history of linguistics and the Chomsky-Norvig debate, and consider the Chomsky side of the debate to be the expert, when subsequent events have vindicated Norvig entirely.
norvig.com/chomsky.html
norvig.com/chomsky.html
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
norvig.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Similarly if you look at the history of linguistics and the Chomsky-Norvig debate, and consider the Chomsky side of the debate to be the expert, when subsequent events have vindicated Norvig entirely.
norvig.com/chomsky.html
norvig.com/chomsky.html
I met peter norvig at the funeral we held, and even peter norvig couldn't successfully intercede on my behalf. that's how fucked up google hiring is
April 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I met peter norvig at the funeral we held, and even peter norvig couldn't successfully intercede on my behalf. that's how fucked up google hiring is
There are definitely multiple uses of "agent" in AI. The engineering view: A system designed to take actions in order to achieve goals. (Russell & Norvig).
September 28, 2026 at 9:15 PM
There are definitely multiple uses of "agent" in AI. The engineering view: A system designed to take actions in order to achieve goals. (Russell & Norvig).
Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig (3rd edition) of events in 1997.
"Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."
"Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."
September 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig (3rd edition) of events in 1997.
"Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."
"Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."
highly recommend reading On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by norvig: norvig.com/chomsky.html
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
norvig.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:44 AM
highly recommend reading On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by norvig: norvig.com/chomsky.html
saw someone here mocking claims that popular pathfinding tools use AI and cited A* search as a non-AI algorithm. heuristic search is at beginning of russell and norvig book. it was the first attempt at a general purpose intelligence!
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
saw someone here mocking claims that popular pathfinding tools use AI and cited A* search as a non-AI algorithm. heuristic search is at beginning of russell and norvig book. it was the first attempt at a general purpose intelligence!
good lord this entire field is just people badly copying other people badly copying russell & norvig
May 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
good lord this entire field is just people badly copying other people badly copying russell & norvig
The neural network bestiary is actually much larger than just feed forward neural networks, with Hebian networks, recurrent networks, an others, but Russell and Norvig will give you a very solid foundation.
September 30, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The neural network bestiary is actually much larger than just feed forward neural networks, with Hebian networks, recurrent networks, an others, but Russell and Norvig will give you a very solid foundation.
actually I have a Norvig anecdote. in ~2014 he gave a short talk to my university's CS PhD cohort over skype. our dept was _not_ on board the DL train and we did not have real compute to play with. fellow student asked how to navigate that and Norvig replied "idk finish and come work at Google lol"
September 18, 2026 at 12:29 AM
actually I have a Norvig anecdote. in ~2014 he gave a short talk to my university's CS PhD cohort over skype. our dept was _not_ on board the DL train and we did not have real compute to play with. fellow student asked how to navigate that and Norvig replied "idk finish and come work at Google lol"
Nunca vão nos substituir !!
Palíndromo de Computador de 21.012 palavras. Peter Norvig usou a simetria textual ao extremo. Com um programa utilizou o dicionário para criar o maior #palindromo automatizado viável, a engenharia léxica descrita no ensaio em Norvig.com, criou um texto digital monstruso.
Palíndromo de Computador de 21.012 palavras. Peter Norvig usou a simetria textual ao extremo. Com um programa utilizou o dicionário para criar o maior #palindromo automatizado viável, a engenharia léxica descrita no ensaio em Norvig.com, criou um texto digital monstruso.
Peter Norvig
Norvig.com
August 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Nunca vão nos substituir !!
Palíndromo de Computador de 21.012 palavras. Peter Norvig usou a simetria textual ao extremo. Com um programa utilizou o dicionário para criar o maior #palindromo automatizado viável, a engenharia léxica descrita no ensaio em Norvig.com, criou um texto digital monstruso.
Palíndromo de Computador de 21.012 palavras. Peter Norvig usou a simetria textual ao extremo. Com um programa utilizou o dicionário para criar o maior #palindromo automatizado viável, a engenharia léxica descrita no ensaio em Norvig.com, criou um texto digital monstruso.
Time travelling Yud got Peter Norvig really enamoured of python so that the "AI language" would be terrible for large projects.
December 22, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Time travelling Yud got Peter Norvig really enamoured of python so that the "AI language" would be terrible for large projects.
Literally in *the* Artificial Intelligence book, Russell and Norvig (1995):
September 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Literally in *the* Artificial Intelligence book, Russell and Norvig (1995):
Russell and Norvig "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" has part of a chapter covering Neural Networks under statistical learning. You might be able to find it at the internet archive and borrow it to read that one section. That's general Neural Networks.
September 30, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Russell and Norvig "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" has part of a chapter covering Neural Networks under statistical learning. You might be able to find it at the internet archive and borrow it to read that one section. That's general Neural Networks.
I assumed it was half Peter Norvig, half corvid.
August 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I assumed it was half Peter Norvig, half corvid.
agents as an ai academic term have been around since 1995 (Russell and Norvig) about entities perceiving environment and performing actions
but also its just very fun to say "have your agent talk to my agent"
but also its just very fun to say "have your agent talk to my agent"
September 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
agents as an ai academic term have been around since 1995 (Russell and Norvig) about entities perceiving environment and performing actions
but also its just very fun to say "have your agent talk to my agent"
but also its just very fun to say "have your agent talk to my agent"
My username is a reference to the Russel and Norvig Artificial Intelligence textbook! There is an example of a "devious vacuum" robot that deposits dirt on any empty square of its finite state space!
any reason you picked vacuum for the username? just liked the feel of the word?
July 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My username is a reference to the Russel and Norvig Artificial Intelligence textbook! There is an example of a "devious vacuum" robot that deposits dirt on any empty square of its finite state space!
Anyone amazed by inference-time scaling should read Chapter 3 of Russell & Norvig.
Anyway... o1 and o3 are not brute force search. They are heuristic search.
Heuristic? Isn't that a bad word? Heuristic search is powerful. One might think of the LLM as being applied as a universal heuristic.
Anyway... o1 and o3 are not brute force search. They are heuristic search.
Heuristic? Isn't that a bad word? Heuristic search is powerful. One might think of the LLM as being applied as a universal heuristic.
December 20, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Anyone amazed by inference-time scaling should read Chapter 3 of Russell & Norvig.
Anyway... o1 and o3 are not brute force search. They are heuristic search.
Heuristic? Isn't that a bad word? Heuristic search is powerful. One might think of the LLM as being applied as a universal heuristic.
Anyway... o1 and o3 are not brute force search. They are heuristic search.
Heuristic? Isn't that a bad word? Heuristic search is powerful. One might think of the LLM as being applied as a universal heuristic.
woe one billion badly formatted powerpoints copying directly from russell and norvig be upon ye
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
woe one billion badly formatted powerpoints copying directly from russell and norvig be upon ye
He keeps them in his “pytudes” repo github.com/norvig/pytud...
pytudes/ipynb at main · norvig/pytudes
Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes
github.com
December 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
He keeps them in his “pytudes” repo github.com/norvig/pytud...
@ramalho.org apresentando sobre um dos programas que eu pessoalmente acho mais bonitos do mundo (um dos que me convenceram que código pode ser arte sim): O interpretador Lisp em 132 linhas de Python de Peter Norvig (norvig.com/lispy.html)
Na @gambiconf.dev, claro
Na @gambiconf.dev, claro
November 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM
@ramalho.org apresentando sobre um dos programas que eu pessoalmente acho mais bonitos do mundo (um dos que me convenceram que código pode ser arte sim): O interpretador Lisp em 132 linhas de Python de Peter Norvig (norvig.com/lispy.html)
Na @gambiconf.dev, claro
Na @gambiconf.dev, claro
As Peter Norvig and I argued back in 2023 (www.noemamag.com/artificial-g...), we effectively crossed the general intelligence threshold when models mastered language, because competence at language inherently involves open-ended task generality.
September 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
As Peter Norvig and I argued back in 2023 (www.noemamag.com/artificial-g...), we effectively crossed the general intelligence threshold when models mastered language, because competence at language inherently involves open-ended task generality.
This is funny because I also always thought of the normality distribution there as bimodal and really sharply spiky; you had Justine, but also Peter Norvig and Jeff Dean, who are _too_ normal.
July 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is funny because I also always thought of the normality distribution there as bimodal and really sharply spiky; you had Justine, but also Peter Norvig and Jeff Dean, who are _too_ normal.
My 8000-word note on agents: huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/...
1. An AI-powered agent's capability is determined by its tools and its planning ability
2. How to select the best tools for your agent
3. How to augment a model’s planning capability
4. Agent’s failure modes
Feedback is much appreciated!
1. An AI-powered agent's capability is determined by its tools and its planning ability
2. How to select the best tools for your agent
3. How to augment a model’s planning capability
4. Agent’s failure modes
Feedback is much appreciated!
Agents
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines ...
huyenchip.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My 8000-word note on agents: huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/...
1. An AI-powered agent's capability is determined by its tools and its planning ability
2. How to select the best tools for your agent
3. How to augment a model’s planning capability
4. Agent’s failure modes
Feedback is much appreciated!
1. An AI-powered agent's capability is determined by its tools and its planning ability
2. How to select the best tools for your agent
3. How to augment a model’s planning capability
4. Agent’s failure modes
Feedback is much appreciated!
Chip Huyen post on agents huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/...
Agents
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines ...
huyenchip.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Chip Huyen post on agents huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/...