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Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Any machine learning experts here? How is the problem of finding empty slots in your calendar formulated as an ML problem? This is an honest question to learn.

Not an expert. My guess is that it is about ranking available slots. Like given a wealth of available times for you to do X task, what makes some block X more "optimal" than block Y?

Also there's some constraint satisfaction. You probably don't want to do your thing twice in one day. You probably don't want to do it during established office hours. Maybe you want your framework to learn what office hours are (to implicitly support people without that office lifestyle). And you want to aim for having something be done N times a week.

Also, you can use the times that tasks are actually completed as feedback into new suggestions. I.e. if historically you've committed to your hobby every Tuesday night, then we should be that you will continue to do that, ergo, keep scheduling for Tuesday night. Similarly, Defer actions for the same times of day could be taken as an anti-signal (i.e. office hours).

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Spending time with family and exercise are definitely huge goals for me that I frequently feel like I've failed at.

But that shouldn’t be any goal, that should be the default. Work and tasks should be the exception from that. Work to live, not live to work.

Ah, but do you also remember that if you do something you enjoy, you'll never work a day in your life?

I enjoy what I do. But accomplishing all the awesome still requires a balancing act.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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I'm using android 6 and still it won't show up. (I'm in Europe)

I'm in Europe as well, perhaps the stores are different. I know this is the case with Amazon, iTunes and Playstation. Well I'm not going to go through all the trouble of VPN'ing into the US to check for this new version. It might come to us eventually.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/calendar/calendar-5... enjoy :)

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Europe as well, perhaps the stores are different. I know this is the case with Amazon, iTunes and Playstation. Well I'm not going to go through all the trouble of VPN'ing into the US to check for this new version. It might come to us eventually.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/calendar/calendar-5... enjoy :)

wow thanks, that one works, very useful site. my play store version still isn't updated over here...
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