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Video contains images (frames), but not every image would reasonably be found in the frames of a video, or interpreted spatially. In the space of world model synthesis, consider bl…

Ooh, I'd love that. Or native steam functionality for the same. I never install games onto my SSD for that reason, so I'm at the mercy of whatever windows naturally does in that sp…

Indeed. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc... , https://research.google/pubs/pub50300/ . (Search the paper title and you should be able to find the pdf it…

Googler here, opinions my own, etc. From my perspective, Bard went from "literally didn't exist" to "released" over the course of about a month. GP seems correct in that it very mu…

> My mum owns a small café in Leicester. Her electricity bill has just jumped from £10k ($12k) a year to £55k ($64k) a year. > Callum's mum may try to avoid shuttering her doors by…

Thought experiment: between you and the AI, which would do a better job depicting a giraffe skeleton? A giraffe in it's natural habitat? Their favorite tree to eat? Species on the …

You're right that the speed of light remains a constant limitation on propagation delay, but the defining limitation on the speed of computation is rather the clock speed - how lon…

I've long been enamored with the idea of learning from analog computers to build the next generation of digital ones. In some perspective all our computers are analog, of a sort - …

If efficiently calculating this mapping is of interest, see also http://www.thelowlyprogrammer.com/2010/04/indexing-and-enume... . (Python isn't my usual language these days, but t…

'Conflict', not 'combat'. Doesn't have to be physical, e.g. ideological conflict.

Tapes are awkward though, since they can't directly satisfy the same random-access use-cases. E.g. even GCS's 'Archive' storage class, for the coldest of the cold, offers sub-secon…

Hyperscalars use a blend of storage flavours covering the whole spectrum, and for most data-heavy purposes can mix hot and cold bytes on the same device to get the right IO/byte mi…

> The recent change, implemented without a formal announcement, is meant to present a variety of skin tones in image queries related to beauty, such as “beautiful skin” and “profes…

A good starting point for reading is https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-b... . It also links out to other whitepapers covering different dimensions of the p…

> When it's done right, it seems to work well. I think this is the most interesting truism of leadership. Which leads risk averse companies to minimize the harm a bad leader can ha…

That's actually a strategy recommended to ADHD folk: do 20m of engaging "fun" to prepare yourself for 5m of forced boring activity. Think of it as recharging a reservoir of $tolera…

I'm (at Google) one of those "technical leaders" - peer to a manager of ~50 with an informal title of "Uber TL", and no reports of my own. Though for us at least, responsibility st…

Relatedly, I'd love to see an experiment in segregating "people managers" from "organizational managers". Imagine having one manager who is responsible for coaching your career gro…

> 1) Is it bad? Yes and no. It's hard for any given manager to support a large team - managing too many often results in either burning out, or being very hands-off with the team..…

It depends how you define "simple" : '(ap|ib|ind)ex' is fewer symbols and a smaller character graph. There is no offside in golf...yet. But the rules are surprisingly long, and wil…

Very nice! I really like the ease-of-use of this, as well as the scale-to-zero costs. That's a tricky thing to achieve. Seems like it could become a standard path to ease the migra…

In addition to the aging paradigms of local storage and the perfect/gone dichotomy of in-memory storage of active items, which I definitely agree should go away, we should also pre…

One somewhat perverse detail: MacOS is much more limited in terms of userspace sandboxing options than other OS, because Apple hasn't implemented them. Which makes me wonder what t…

Googler here. These people are smart and usually experienced, but don't put them on a pedestal. A lot goes into it - whole teams building the infrastructure with reliability as a c…

It very much depends on your clients and the nature of the traffic they send. For a high-volume client, assuming a default of 100 concurrent streams per connection max, this actual…