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Amancio Bouza, 31, Zürich, Switzerland
I’m a doctoral student at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. I’m doing research in the field of machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, Semantic Web technologies and it’s application to collaborative filtering-based recommender systems.
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7 questions, 7 answers from Amancio Bouza
1.) If I was awarded a Nobel prize it would be in the field of….
…imagination.
2.) On the other hand, my sore points are…
…expecting too much from anyone, especially from myself.
3.) I share my know-how on Starmind because…
…of intrinsic motivation and because I think my know-how may be of value.
4.) The most interesting Starmind question so far was…
…”How many leafs hang on all trees on earth?”, by Susanne Guldner. I’m fascinated about such questions that are not solvable with knowledge solely, but with know-how.
5.) When I am not busy answering Starmind questions I…
…spend time implementing crazy ideas and challenge myself among other things with training my self for my first Marathon and gathering new knowledge to get new perspectives on understanding problems and be prepared facing them
6.) I believe that in ten years…
…the evolution of mankind’s knowledge and the world will be just impressive.
7.) If I ruled the world…
…it will end in a great disaster because complex dynamic systems such as our world are self-oganizing and self-repairing systems that cannot and shouldn’t be ruled by a single instance.
