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Why do you see that comment as dumping on Google? I see it as complementing them for taking the time to optimize the hardware rather than just throwing a larger
by goatsi 7y ago
Why do you see that comment as dumping on Google? I see it as complementing them for taking the time to optimize the hardware rather than just throwing a larger chip at it.
- perl4ever 7y agoObviously Google has a lot of really smart engineers internally, but they still outsource stuff. If you're working in a field that involves data processing, and you are always thinking "this is basically just search, I wonder how Google would do it and why they don't" and then one day you get Google as a customer it realigns your thinking. But then Google turns out to be different from other customers - even when they rely on outside expertise, they seem unusually efficient at it. I think it's interesting not just if you're interested in Google, but to contemplate what the limitations of talent and intelligence are, and how they can be utilized in unexpected ways. And what synergies exist between the people at the very top of a field and those who aren't.