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name some foundational advances Google has made. Throwing 100x more resources at AI ideas from the 70s isn't an foundational advance.

• throwaways885 6y ago
  MapReduce, GFS and Bigtable are the foundations of big data today.
  • konjin 6y ago
    None of those things are new or interesting. Maps were used in the 70s and you can find a chapter about them being parrapalized in Kthuths original Art of Computer Programming.
    • tylerhou 6y ago
      The original TOACP makes no mention of map parallelization. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming/x9AsAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=map https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Pro... Nor the second one: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_of_Computer_Programming_Volume_2/Zu-HAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=map https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_of_Computer_Program... Nor the third one: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming/e3wLBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=map https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Pro... I also searched for "parallel" and couldn't find any relevant passages to map parallelization.
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  • throwaway2048 6y ago
    Those are good engineering efforts, but its like building a bridge vs understanding the theory of gravity. They are definitely not foundational in anywhere near the sense that bell labs was.
    • read_if_gay_ 6y ago
      Maybe Bell Labs was only foundational due to timing?
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