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by puzzle 9y ago
They worked on Chrome hardware. Google is heavily involved in the development of the boards that end up in manufacturers' Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.
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by puzzle 9y ago
There's a lot more. The article makes it sound like this is all recent, but the Visual Core was in the works for at least three years. Then there's the Titan security chip and the Lanai processor used in Google NICs. Google is hea
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by puzzle 9y ago
Eric has another 5-6% of votes...
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by puzzle 9y ago
When he was hired, there was a pact with Larry and Sergey that the three would run the company for 20 years: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-executives/top-goo...
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by puzzle 9y ago
And that could be a way to circumvent the GFW.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Among other things, they open sourced the Ceres library, which the imaging pipeline relies on.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Torrent-style P2P updates? Installation over Bluetooth for users without connectivity or with expensive plans? I might be in the same room and already have this app I just recommended to you...
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by puzzle 9y ago
The more pedestrian reason for Google's investment for its own maps was that the licensing costs for data to use in turn-by-turn navigation, which is many times as expensive compared to simpler uses, were going to skyrocket once mobile
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by puzzle 9y ago
A couple of public blog posts made it obvious that Google flies planes.
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by puzzle 9y ago
I think that only works in the Bay area and Brazil for now.
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by puzzle 9y ago
This was definitely planned, only perhaps not in this kind of detail. The Geo organization's motto paralleled the company's (to organize the world's information, etc. etc.), only at a geospatial level. The data you see in Goo
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by puzzle 9y ago
Apple really didn't get it in the Jobs days. For quite a while, Cupertino's built-in Google Maps app sent traffic to two Netscalers in California that Apple managed, no matter where your iPhone was. That was definitely not Google&
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by puzzle 9y ago
It depends on the line. Numbered ones have more accurate data, for example, as they rely on rail sensors to track trains. MTA recently pushed new Bluetooth-based technology to get location estimates on all the other lines. They're just
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by puzzle 9y ago
The one on Pixel 2 is done in the background on device, but it has a small catalog of titles. You can explicitly ask the Assistant for all the other songs.
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by puzzle 9y ago
If you need distinct MAC addresses, though, for e.g. DHCP, usually not the case with containers, then you have to use macvlan.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Part of it is that Google took forever to migrate to IPv6 internally, well after the user facing support.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Google and every other search engine rewrite queries. See eg. https://hughewilliams.com/2012/03/19/query-rewriting-in-sear... https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36252.pdf
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by puzzle 9y ago
Yes' masterpiece, Close to the edge, has nothing but "nature" sounds for the first 57 seconds. The first human vocal sound (”aaahhhh") is at 2:00, while the first lyrics are at 4:01. But then the song, or suite, really,
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by puzzle 9y ago
So you're going to have to use a subset of possible distros/images. Then you have to figure your node update strategy. These are the kind of details I hoped they would discuss.
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by puzzle 9y ago
How does one set up the workers? None of the announcements, documentation or FAQs explain how that's supposed to happen. It's pretty clear that Amazon manages the masters (any of the latest three public versions), but it's no
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by puzzle 9y ago
Funny that you mention Mayo. Their doctors are paid mostly on a tenure basis and their income is not based on how many patients they see or what kind of procedures they decide to perform on them, unlike in most other places. It's still
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by puzzle 9y ago
It's actually been around even longer, just even more inaccessible. :-) See this video from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni4FU8D1-DU and http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/10/car-h
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by puzzle 9y ago
Flatbuffers also uses less memory.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Using FlatBuffers, for one?
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by puzzle 9y ago
This is interesting, but perhaps the author should also post the serial number of the DX-7 unit used. :-) I can't remember the details, but early serial numbers have a slightly different sound. They also had slightly different MIDI pro
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by puzzle 9y ago
There's a difference between running algorithms and running them without lag or battery drain. You need to tune the whole pipeline and keep every single step in sync, without unnecessary data copies or conversions, which is why Google
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by puzzle 9y ago
TF 1.4 does, but you need to build it yourself. RC1 is out: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.4.0... All our prebuilt binaries have been built with CUDA 8 and cuDNN 6. We ant
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by puzzle 9y ago
The Dublin data center is probably much larger than the one in London, for starters.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Yeah, but Google doesn't (or didn't until a few years ago) rely on cgroups to do a lot of the finer-grained I/O scheduling.
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by puzzle 9y ago
Or you can use Google Maps to do the same for both.

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