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“I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.”

Quote by Peter Norvig

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Peter Norvig is an accomplished computer scientist renowned for his contributions to the fields of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Born on December 14, 1956, he served as the Director of Research at Google and was a professor of computer science at Stanford University. Norvig's research in artificial intelligence spans a wide range of topics from machine learning to search engine algorithms. more

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