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I wonder if Jeff Dean facts [1] (I hope people remember the reference) will carry over to the new startup. [1] https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts ht

I wonder if Jeff Dean facts [1] (I hope people remember the reference) will carry over to the new startup. [1] https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts

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hoyd 2mo ago
«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.» I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.
- soVeryTired 2mo ago
  0000 in base pi. Oh Jeff.
tcp_handshaker 2mo ago
Those are all fake, part of an internal Google narrative that overstates individual contribution, and obscures the work of large engineering teams. Here are some Jeff Dean well sourced facts: - Already part of engineering of Google indexing systems that lacked basic checksums and ran on non-ECC hardware, allowing silent data corruption. - One of the authors of LevelDB a database with so many documented crash-consistency, recovery, and data-loss weaknesses for years. Just check their Github project. LevelDB current tracker contains unresolved crash consistency, recovery and corruption reports going back almost 12 years on GitHub - In AI engineering technical lead, let TensorFlow lose researcher mind share to PyTorch, and caused Google fragmented landscape across TensorFlow and JAX. - Had the people at Google who invented the Transformer architecture, but failed, to turn that lead into the first dominant public LLM. - As AI engineering and VP management let Google Brain and DeepMind remain duplicated and internally competitive for too long. - Let Noam Shazeer leave and then spent heavily to bring him back with nothing to show for. - Part of Technical VP leadership who had Bard rushed to launch with factual errors in Google own promotional material. - The first Gemini demonstration overstated how real-time and interactive the system actually was, being basically a fake. - Part of the VP and AI technical leadership who had Google AI Overviews launched with weak source quality controls and repeated satire and low-quality web content as factual advice. - Part of teams that launched AlphaChip performance claims that were difficult for outside researchers to reproduce and remain technically disputed. - Jeff Dean public explanation of Gebru departure was contested and damaged confidence in Google scientific governance. - Jeff Dean was part of the team at Google that removed or marginalized prominent internal AI ethics critics shortly before many of their warnings became product problems. - Jeff Dean was one of the managers behind Project Dragonfly supporting censorship. - Jeff Dean is part of the VP technical leadership approving Project Nimbus supporting an ongoing genocide.
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- bonsai_bar 2mo ago
  You sound like you're quite jealous of him.
  - root-parent 2mo ago
    I had never heard of many of these, was surprised, went to research, and so far, the list seems correct.
  - twister2920 2mo ago
    not sure how you got that from a long list of criticisms
  - dekhn 2mo ago
    Actually the list is technically accurate. So maybe it's sour grapes, but it's correct sour grapes.
    - scottyah 2mo ago
      But they're all highly unsubstantial, sounds like hit-piece lazy journalism. Almost all are just that Jeff was in a leadership role and part of committees that had things under them go bad. One was just saying that people disagreed with what he said when he actually put out a statement to clear confusion when an employee went a bit rogue (went to media instead of going to someone like Jeff) in an attempt to get a promotion. I just don't see anything damning on the list that isn't someone's opinion on public perception of his actions.
- shawn_w 2mo ago
  I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.

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hoyd 2mo ago

«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.» I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.

soVeryTired 2mo ago
0000 in base pi. Oh Jeff.

tcp_handshaker 2mo ago

Those are all fake, part of an internal Google narrative that overstates individual contribution, and obscures the work of large engineering teams. Here are some Jeff Dean well sourced facts: - Already part of engineering of Google indexing systems that lacked basic checksums and ran on non-ECC hardware, allowing silent data corruption. - One of the authors of LevelDB a database with so many documented crash-consistency, recovery, and data-loss weaknesses for years. Just check their Github project. LevelDB current tracker contains unresolved crash consistency, recovery and corruption reports going back almost 12 years on GitHub - In AI engineering technical lead, let TensorFlow lose researcher mind share to PyTorch, and caused Google fragmented landscape across TensorFlow and JAX. - Had the people at Google who invented the Transformer architecture, but failed, to turn that lead into the first dominant public LLM. - As AI engineering and VP management let Google Brain and DeepMind remain duplicated and internally competitive for too long. - Let Noam Shazeer leave and then spent heavily to bring him back with nothing to show for. - Part of Technical VP leadership who had Bard rushed to launch with factual errors in Google own promotional material. - The first Gemini demonstration overstated how real-time and interactive the system actually was, being basically a fake. - Part of the VP and AI technical leadership who had Google AI Overviews launched with weak source quality controls and repeated satire and low-quality web content as factual advice. - Part of teams that launched AlphaChip performance claims that were difficult for outside researchers to reproduce and remain technically disputed. - Jeff Dean public explanation of Gebru departure was contested and damaged confidence in Google scientific governance. - Jeff Dean was part of the team at Google that removed or marginalized prominent internal AI ethics critics shortly before many of their warnings became product problems. - Jeff Dean was one of the managers behind Project Dragonfly supporting censorship. - Jeff Dean is part of the VP technical leadership approving Project Nimbus supporting an ongoing genocide.

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bonsai_bar 2mo ago
You sound like you're quite jealous of him.
- root-parent 2mo ago
  I had never heard of many of these, was surprised, went to research, and so far, the list seems correct.
- twister2920 2mo ago
  not sure how you got that from a long list of criticisms
- dekhn 2mo ago
  Actually the list is technically accurate. So maybe it's sour grapes, but it's correct sour grapes.
  - scottyah 2mo ago
    But they're all highly unsubstantial, sounds like hit-piece lazy journalism. Almost all are just that Jeff was in a leadership role and part of committees that had things under them go bad. One was just saying that people disagreed with what he said when he actually put out a statement to clear confusion when an employee went a bit rogue (went to media instead of going to someone like Jeff) in an attempt to get a promotion. I just don't see anything damning on the list that isn't someone's opinion on public perception of his actions.
shawn_w 2mo ago
I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.