I've been in this industry for 23 years. A LOT has changed...but I expect I'll be in in for 20-25 more, so I occasionally freak out about how much I know that will be as irrelevant as what I learned in '95 was. (A lot carries over, but...so much doesn't).
Back then we had only physical servers (as a practical concern), Linux was considered risky to rely on, there was no social media, and everything on the web was expressed in highway metaphors and spoken of in capital letters ("The World Wide Web"). "Digital" was considered a fancy word, and to the average geek high speed access meant ISDN, while the average person was just starting to be able to imitate a 14400 baud modem connection sound. Wireless wasn't a thing (draft standard I think) and usenet was actually usable.
Man I miss Usenet. Last time I used a news client was 2006, working at a firm that had an internal NNTP server for announcements, general chatter, for sale ads etc.
I don't think anyone under 30 would have a clue what to do with newsgroups these days.
Congrats Google! You guys have made the world a better place. Search, Adwords, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Youtube, Android, Docs, Drive to name a few. Don't forget about that with everything that's going on. Sometimes the internet feels like it's a bit too focused on negative things.
I appreciate the technical achievement. But I would have appreciated it even more if it had been a standalone company separated from the rest of Google. The products by themselves are benign, all that power concentrated in the hands of so few is not.
Research Funding: NSF, NASA, DARPA and Interval Research
So remember, Google may be touted as a quintessential Silicon Valley startup, but, like virtually all of them, it owes a lot to the work of the federal government.
(And what is Interval Research, you might ask? Wikipedia says it was a Palo Alto tech incubator co-founded by Paul Allen — previously the co-founder of Microsoft. Lol.)
Page and Brin were both initially funded by the National Science Foundation to do the algorithmic work that led to Google [1]. Page was supported by an NSF grant from the 1994 Digital Library Initiative program; Brin was at Stanford on an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship.
> So remember, Google may be touted as a quintessential Silicon Valley startup, but, like virtually all of them, it owes a lot to the work of the federal government.
Oh, right. The thing that sucks trillions of dollars out of the economy and then claims credit for anything it touched.
I didn't even advocate for the government writing research grants (though I do think it's a good idea). I tried (perhaps badly) to point out that "The thing that sucks trillions of dollars out of the economy" is a terribly silly characterization for the federal government.
I'm not sure what your point is. That deficit must be paid by value-creators, not the government--the same value-creators that were taxed in the first place.
You're so horribly wrong that you could convincingly make exactly the opposite argument, that the government (and by extension US taxpayers) are owed royalties.
I wonder, how much research is there these days that doesn't get at least some money from a government agency? As a casual observer it certainly seems like the government throws so much money around that they have long since crowded out most of the private funding. Having funds going to pretty much every research lab in the country conveniently lets the feds take credit for pretty much everything with no way to refute it because no one knows what the research community would be like today without federal money.
Bricken is the fellow who discovered the "Bricken Basis":
A((B)) = AB
A() = ()
A(AB) = A(B)
This is the most parsimonious symbolic representation of Logic (yet found.) LoF with the Bricken basis is a more efficient notation than the standard ones. For example, it permits writing a SAT solver that does not require its inputs to be in normal form.[1] A proof in LoF notation is typically one or two orders of magnitude shorter than one using standard notation.
I'm pretty sure this stuff is the future of digital hardware.
For years I remember their about page offering an explanation of how they scrape the web and score links, and a phrase something like “this might sound a bit recursive; that’s because it is!” But I haven’t been able to find it on archive.org or this site.
i wonder if they took real voice samples from people using voice search for that video or if they have been recorded just for this because the audio quality seems to vary quite a bit.
It wasn't removed and is still there. You have to type a query first and Google instant needs to be turned off. It bypasses the results page and selects the first result at the top, like it has always done.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 67.7 ms ] thread20 is an interesting time of life for any legal entity. I hope you renew your vision of "don't be evil" for your next 20!
With love, me
I think you mean readopt
Back then we had only physical servers (as a practical concern), Linux was considered risky to rely on, there was no social media, and everything on the web was expressed in highway metaphors and spoken of in capital letters ("The World Wide Web"). "Digital" was considered a fancy word, and to the average geek high speed access meant ISDN, while the average person was just starting to be able to imitate a 14400 baud modem connection sound. Wireless wasn't a thing (draft standard I think) and usenet was actually usable.
I don't think anyone under 30 would have a clue what to do with newsgroups these days.
When did it stop? comp.lang.* is still pretty active.
https://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.sta...
Notice that the branding is "Google!" with an exclamation point, just like that other Stanford tool for finding stuff online, Yahoo!.
The "About Google!" page is pretty interesting, includes links to Sergey and Larry's grad school personal home pages:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990204033714/http://google.sta...
It also includes, under "credits," this:
Research Funding: NSF, NASA, DARPA and Interval Research
So remember, Google may be touted as a quintessential Silicon Valley startup, but, like virtually all of them, it owes a lot to the work of the federal government.
(And what is Interval Research, you might ask? Wikipedia says it was a Palo Alto tech incubator co-founded by Paul Allen — previously the co-founder of Microsoft. Lol.)
[1] https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660
Oh, right. The thing that sucks trillions of dollars out of the economy and then claims credit for anything it touched.
My point is that the cost isn't justified. Your point is "something happened, therefore it's worth the cost".
http://iconicmath.com/logic/semiconductors/
http://iconicmath.com/mypdfs/15p-bricken.120903.pdf
Bricken is the fellow who discovered the "Bricken Basis":
This is the most parsimonious symbolic representation of Logic (yet found.) LoF with the Bricken basis is a more efficient notation than the standard ones. For example, it permits writing a SAT solver that does not require its inputs to be in normal form.[1] A proof in LoF notation is typically one or two orders of magnitude shorter than one using standard notation.I'm pretty sure this stuff is the future of digital hardware.
[1] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Correcet_Programming.html
https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2017 through to https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2014
https://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july
https://www.google.com/doodles/mothers-day-2010-usa
https://www.google.com/doodles/veterans-day-2016
https://www.google.com/doodles/united-states-elections-2016
https://www.google.com/doodles/united-states-elections-2016-...
https://www.google.com/doodles/us-elections-2014
https://www.google.com/doodles/2004-us-elections
https://www.google.com/doodles/us-vote-2000
https://www.google.com/doodles/labor-day-2016-us
https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-martin-luther-king-day-201...
Plenty.
The map on the doodle page is for the presented doodle only.
https://obartunov.livejournal.com/174726.html
I wonder if this is related to the anniversary?
Maybe it's showing it to crawlers/browsers that can't do javascript?
https://web.archive.org/web/20090324232727/http://www.busine...