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What all similar sites are you aware of ? Would love to check them out. there should be a Directory of "Directory of tools and resources". One-stop solution.

And you didn't even mention GV, CapitalG and other investment arms. Well forget the others, I am surprised that Google's investments into Oscar, Magic Leap, SpaceX, Impossible, Slack, Stripe,Lyft,Uber, Snap, AirBnb aren't talked about much. I think these can be counted as successful, guaranteed future cash troves. In 10 years, all these are going to be worth a lot. Google should hold onto these. It's like a mini Berkshire hathaway is brewing up.

Some links: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/a-peek-inside-alphabets-in... http://www.gv.com/portfolio/ https://capitalg.com/companies/

True. I can account for India here. There are some channels which nake scripted web series releasing 1 episode per week. Some of them even have 1-2 seasons . Mostly 5 episodes. And they are really popular among youngsters. Basically,these shows touch upon common middle class family relatable stuff,or college youngsters themed series. Most of them have a different sponsor each time. Sometimes its a car company (for a road trip based series),or a yoghurt brand, once Xiaomi was also a sponsor. And they hire veteran actors who are quite popular on traditional TV soap operas. But, i do feel that Youtube hasn't done enough for them. Personally i love Youtube for its educational content.

So, is Google guilty in this case? Because i think in UK, a group of iPhone users are suing them. More of a coding practices mistake than a specific company one?

Well they do release tons of datasets,and their open source contributions have a lot of importance as well sinxe the past 10-15 years. Sure other companies do OS stuff too,i know. Even, the massive improvements in computational photography in the Pixel phones are explained by them in great detailed blog posts. They even built a special search engine especially for Datasets.

May I know what you mean by interesting little websites? I am a student, and for the past 1 year the Google Feed in the Google app/ Chrome Browser has recommended by really good blogs of individual people/websites related to my topics of interest like ML, Vision,AI. I wouldn't have discovered many of these websites on my own or would have when it would be too late. Some of the recommendations have really delighted me from time to time.

Yes. And thankfully, Ruth Porat has controlled the losses otherwise around 2013 they were on fire,bought so many robotics companies etc. Though, the incentive structure at the Self Driving project led to a lot of great engineers leaving the project and making tons of . I was also excited for Project Soli. Haven't seen any update regarding their work in 3 years. Waiting to see how Loon, Wing monetize as they graduated this year from X. No idea why I got downvotes on my 1st comment above. Probably, Snapchat or other insignificant Social startup employees.

X labs actually does great things. Nobody has invested into such different areas of scientific research as Alphabet. I love SV, but hated that potato cannon joke. They painted X Labs as a joke, which it isn't. Sure, they have had their failures,but I'd rather take their failures rather thn "successes" like Snapchat, Tiktok. Craig Frederighi demoing Memoji is much more laughable.

I think it would be a huge loss. I couldn't live without the educational content on Youtube. Sure, they could move it elsewhere. But, Youtube has enabled this network to thrive. It's the single biggest library of visual edu content. Channels like Ted-Ed,Crash Course, Physics Girl,Vsauce, Engineering Explained, Khan Acad, MITOCW, a16z, freecodecamp, 3blue1brown,asapScience, SciShow,Computerphile,Numberphile,Hak5,LiveOverflow, How stuffworks, Jacob Clifford, Derek Banas, sentdex,Corey Schafer,Minute physics,Tinkernut, Tom Scott, Y Combinator, oh and 2 Minute Papers.

Youtube bascially played a major role in democratizing creation of content :educational, creative etc. And by the way, it's still not clear how much profit YT makes. The infra costs etc are huge. It's Google's $$$ which subsidizes YT content. personally, when I see the amount of value I am deriving, I think I owe a decent amount of money to YT. I am a student right now, but will start giving creators money asap.

Of course, it would have been better if Youtube had started their Donate option sooner. I think they have failed to creatively monetize users and compensate creators. (i know about ads, not creative,but it works)

I do this too. Perfectly normal.

No company employees other than Google are known to be as vocal about business decisions,AFAIK. Culture matters. The culture which Larry,Sergey and others started is reaping benefits today. I might be wrong,but if we look at companies in general, Google is the closest to having a democracy-type of vibe.

I know, but many still might be using these questions right?

PSA: Woah.wait. I just thought since personal data of about ~30 million people was leaked, most of them would be having Gmail accounts. So, isn't Gmail under threat too? I think GOOGLE should also issue an advisory asking people to change their security questions. Did I miss something?

No problem. He's more of a tech guy, acc to me. His twitch slams(available on Youtube@ comma archive channel are somewhat entertaining).

Who said he got kicked out? He kicked himself out of CEO role. He's still at comma

Looking at the current news cycle, I think their huge lead is eventually going to get squandered away. George Hotz said Waymo is like Xerox PARC of Autonomous Tech. I think it's somewhere in between.They're somewhat like Fairchild Semiconductor. A lot of their great engineers have gone on to found their own companies. Be it Anton or Chris. Tesla already has the brand firepower on its side, to unknowingly create the perception that they're self-driving tech pioneers.

Here's the original blog post by Project Zero:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/10/365-days-late...

Project Zero is the reason I regard Google's security as one of the best (possibly the best). They haven't had any major/minor leak, IIRC, which is a huge deal. I mean even if 1 data leak occurred in the next 2 years, I wouldn't be that pissed off (T&C Apply). Accomplishments of these 2 teams deserve more mention.

Does your server allow Google Ads because honestly, I would feel like a hypocrite blocking their ads as those ads basically pay for what Jigsaw does. Just saying.

I think Jigsaw has a good record of making tools which work for the oppressed sections or in areas of cybersecurity/censorship etc. Good work must be appreciated. I don't think any other Big Co. has a division dedicated to solving such specific problems. Yeah, the China bit is really saddening/irritating. They're gonna crush their own legacy.

Hi Jeremy, I am a beginner. Going to start your ML course,then follow up with DL- 1 & 2. My question is when will these 3 be updated to the new version of fastai. I am aware of the fellowship for DL-1, but there's a 12 hour difference. Also, I want to start with ML,so, I want to learn with the new version. Thanks

On the side, I am also taking Andrew's coursera course for a theoretical grounding , Bengio and Goodfellow's Machine Learning Book ,and Hands-On Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Sci-kit( O'reilly book).

We can use Google Colab instead, right? They're free.

Humans make systems. Teams like Project Zero (of Google) have contributed a ton to security. They prioritize security a lot.

Probably. Wow, you used the word "probably". I guess you aren't aware of the many cases wherein when a Chrome extension gets popular, indie developers are contacted by some company and many have sold their extension are let them collect data. Also yhis data gets sold to 3rd parties,many such cases with small-medium websites have occured. Remember Unroll.me

Also, Google knows how to make profiles and it knows the importance of that data amd keeping it safe. It is also somewhat answerable to Consumer groups,users,shareholders,regulatory bodies. Indie dev doesn't know how to make good profile, more likely to sell the data to make revenue. Not ridiculing indie devs, just ridiculing your assumptions that if a solo dev is an angel.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/sold-chrome-extension/28377/

https://m.slashdot.org/story/328731

Thats no a good way to make a decision. Big,small doesn't matter. What matters is who is providing better security? When 2 parties big,small are collecting data ,then the party which can act on security vulnerabilities quickly and has great security engineers and dedicated teams like Project Zero- is the much better choice. People nowadays assume that a small,indie developer is a good guy. I am just pointing out that this is a very bad bias to have. Technicalities matter, security robustness matters. Google might be collecting data,but their security is really good. Good effort by this dev though.

How has apple pioneered differential privacy. MS started it and Google has used ot before Apple ,even open sourced some portion of it,iirc. Google is also doing research in federated learning(ian goodfellow)

VPN+ Tor also not enough?

Shelves on shops manipulate you. Some products are put in front, some in the back. Back in the day, small companies suffered due to this and big brands used to get more brand placement. Counters have inexpensive candies, so that, instead of giving change money back they can give you candies. On the other hand, that surveillance by Google gives me great Articles in Google Chrome. There are scores of programming related articles which i wouldn't have discovered otherwise. I mean I can't "just go and read an article: when i don't know about that website. To each their own.

They later acknowledged that ads could give better experience. Their earlier beliefs in the beginning were probably based on the ads at that time. 1 search engine didn't distinguish bw search results and ads, leading to bad user experience. Clearly, Google eliminated this.