I listen to a interview with a higher level Googler that explained why and it made a ton of sense to me. They were tired of writing something up as a paper and

I listen to a interview with a higher level Googler that explained why and it made a ton of sense to me. They were tired of writing something up as a paper and then someone implemented as OSS and then companies and engineers knew the OSS implementation instead of their own. So instead do a OSS version and then drive what everyone learns. I found this a bit funny. One solution would have been to not write the papers. But so glad Google does. Spend a lot of time on their research site. https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html