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by prlambert 7y ago
I was the PM on this feature (and these are my views not Googles, as per normal). The truth is actually much more banal. Most people are just really positive over email. The model is trained to offer reply suggestions that have the highest
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by prlambert 7y ago
(also @reaperducer) Something I didn't fully appreciate until I got here was: 1. Work (aka enterprise) sends much more email than consumer, and 2. Outlook dominates enterprise. Their market share is pretty astounding. I assure you t
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by prlambert 7y ago
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. Our analysts are looking into the issue described in the article, hopefully we find something we can fix that will resolve this.
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by prlambert 7y ago
I'm one of the PMs for Gmail and hang around HN quite a bit. This is my personal take, not an official reply. It's simply not true we have no incentive to fix this. Here are a few: Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predica
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by prlambert 8y ago
Fair enough! thanks for keeping me honest. Unfortunately edit window has passed so can't fix as suggested in the guidelines:future readers please ignore the question and start at sentence 2.
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by prlambert 8y ago
Did you read the post? He specifically calls out biographies as the exception to the 'no journalists' rule and describes why journalists are well suited to write bios. In other words there's no reason to believe the author wo
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by prlambert 8y ago
"NYC has a lot of developers, more than the valley" - do you have a source for that? Seems highly unlikely. My quick googling suggests silicon valley has 2x-5x more engineers than NYC.
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Crypto’s 80% Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash(bloomberg.com)
44 points by prlambert 8y ago|26 comments
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by prlambert 8y ago
Thanks for all the feedback! I can address of few of these. 1. Threads should be sorted by date of most recent email, regardless of importance. This sounds like a real bug and I'll dig into it. 2. Yes, great feedback. You could archive
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by prlambert 8y ago
Have you tried multiple inboxes in gmail? You can create custom sections for specific labels and then sort your incoming mail into them (using keyboard shortcuts this can be really quick). For example you can have inbox sections: Starred P
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by prlambert 8y ago
You can disable Smart Reply from the mobile apps, the setting isn't there on Web yet. Honestly we just haven't prioritized it yet. Here's some info on how it works if it helps address your concern: We've transformed the
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by prlambert 8y ago
Could you be more specific? Which features would you like to see?
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by prlambert 8y ago
(I'm the PM on Gmail for intelligence and filtering) Based on Dan's research we built a new gmail feature: high priority notifications. It only sends you a push notification for really important messages, cuts out over 90% of Gmai
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by prlambert 8y ago
I'm curious as to how that breaks down? Which kind of workflows are best in email, which in Slack?
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by prlambert 8y ago
Sorry to hear that, I might be able to help. I work on Gmail. DM me the details on twitter @prlambert (or if you gain email access prl@google.com).
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by prlambert 8y ago
Rolling out over the course of the day. We'll be at 100% in a couple hours. Thanks for your patience. :)
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by prlambert 8y ago
It's a great question and one of my early concerns as well. For most people email is a utility. The diversity of language in the middle chunk of the distribution isn't very high today and the biggest complaint most people have abo
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by prlambert 8y ago
This has been one of the most consistent themes since the first prototypes we tried. It is particularly helpful for non-native speakers, but the large majority of native speakers find it helpful too.
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by prlambert 8y ago
Paid domains can choose if they want us to use their data for training. Many do since it improves the quality of features they receive.
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by prlambert 8y ago
This is correct.
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by prlambert 8y ago
We're training Smart Compose from highly anonymized global corpus of consumer email. We've stopped using emails for Ad targeting entirely, and the enforcement is quite strict, as reported in June: https://www.nytimes.co
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by prlambert 8y ago
I'm the PM for this and the author of the article. Happy to answer any questions, with the exception that I can't comment on future roadmap.
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by prlambert 9y ago
The language itself isn't 'more cool' or better, but the risk profile of adopting it has dropped dramatically. That makes it much more interesting.
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by prlambert 9y ago
I was the PM on this, happy to answer any easy questions.
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Smart Reply in Gmail(blog.google)
3 points by prlambert 9y ago|3 comments
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by prlambert 9y ago
They would if they could and it was clean/legal. But there are very few purchasable databases that make a dent at Twitter or LinkedIn scale. This line of thinking was behind the original motivation for Digits (part of the Fabric SDK).
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by prlambert 9y ago
I was the PM for this at Twitter. You pretty much nailed it. The straight Address Book algorithms are Reverse Address Book (your #1) and Strong-ties prediction (your #2 and #3). LinkedIn for sure also uses common groups (schools, workplaces
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by prlambert 9y ago
Interesting to see this get traction here today, this article is for the web version which has been around for awhile. But we did just (in March) launch this for Android: https://blog.google/products/gmail/send-an
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by prlambert 10y ago
PM @ Google, before that PM @ Twitter for 2 years. Before that CEO/Founder of a SaaS startup. Did a BA in Anthropology & English. Learned to write, think clearly, and communicate effectively. Moved to China, founded a company which
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by prlambert 11y ago
Yes this is normal. I work at Twitter and new fathers taking multi-month paternity is very common. Lots of friends at Google and believe it's the same there.

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