Domain Knowledge Quotes

Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.