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Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

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Re: Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

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Post by bripeace »

equalunique wrote: post #3

I wonder if the name is a nod to Ubik by Philip K. Dick

That too is what I thought of. Though in the book the product is of dubious quality and constantly changing what it promises. So it's hard to be believe someone thought it a good idea to associate their product

Re: Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

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Post by throwawaymath »

Let me take this opportunity to say I'm appalled all research at Google has been rolled into "AI." Ubiq has nothing to do with machine learning, but you can't access it without wading through a swath of Google-branded AI marketing material. The domain research.google.com now redirects to ai.google. If you want to search for any research publications by Google employees, you will be searching on a domain that first and foremost highlights the AI research teams. In a particularly egregious example, all quantum computing research has been filed under "Quantum AI." The "Recent Publications" section exclusively highlights machine learning research despite there being more recent research by other teams. I can go on.

In my opinion, this move threatens the scientific integrity of Google's research. It's clear that researchers in distributed systems, fundamental theory, security and privacy, networking, language development, etc. are second class citizens. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there's organizational pressure to inject machine learning into as many publications as possible, even if it dilutes the overall diversity of research.

Re: Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (2016)

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Post by atombender »

bripeace wrote: post #5
equalunique wrote: post #3

I wonder if the name is a nod to Ubik by Philip K. Dick

That too is what I thought of. Though in the book the product is of dubious quality and constantly changing what it promises. So it's hard to be believe someone thought it a good idea to associate their product

I think you may have misinterpreted what Ubik is in the book. It's not a product, and it seems to be the manifestation of some kind of creative force that negates entropy. The commercials quoted in each chapter are not real commercials in the book.
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