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moultano

11,023karma·1,963submissions·May 20, 2009
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I work at Google trying to make your search results not suck. rmoulton@google.com

I write articles here: http://moultano.wordpress.com/

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Transformers have gradually taken over in every other ML domain.
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The article describes UX changes to make it clearer that quotes are working as designed.
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This is more typing, but if you append -site:pinterest.com to your search, it will hide them.
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Honestly I think using quotes for that is probably better, even though + was a bit less typing. You wouldn't believe how many people search for [tar -xvf] and are confused as to why none of their…
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I work on Google search, and have been posting in threads about it for quite some time here taking feedback, asking for examples to debug, and passing them on when I get them.
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Very similar chart to this one recording the date of Japan's cherry blossoms blooming since 600 AD. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyo…
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Old school arena shooter with a focus on different movement styles. I want to see quake rocket jumpers facing off against tribes jetpackers against realCTF tractor beamers against unreal teleporters a…
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If the value of it went to 0, I would happily buy Amazon, and take it private, which would entitle me to all of the profit that it generates.
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What makes it not a pyramid scheme is that by owning the stock you own part of Amazon, and Amazon makes money by providing a service to users. The inflow of money comes from the users of its product, …
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Once Amazon decides that the prospects for continuing to invest in growing their business are lower, they will start paying dividends. In the meantime Microsoft and Apple already do.
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Look up what a dividend is.
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I've struggled with reading music despite years of piano lessons, years of church and school choirs, and being the main arranger for my college a cappella group. Watching the video of the Blue Da…
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For the first and third, I can't, it isn't my code. For the second, I have to get approval from my employer to release it, but I stalled out half way through the paperwork and haven't h…
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You all might enjoy some of the things I've made with it. Tour of the Sacred Library — A short story illustrated with VQGAN+CLIP https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/2…
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It isn't though. A typical developer will never care about 0.1% of unnecessary CPU usage in their application, but at Google, depending on what component it's in, that can easily be a millio…
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All things show up at scale in production at Google.
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Nothing super user friendly. Most of the things people make right now are via various Google Colab notebooks. https://twitter.com/rivershavewings/status/14275803546515865... …
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If you're interested in AI art, I've made a few more things built out of a series of generated images around a theme. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/…
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The premise of an AI mimicking AIs it reads about in fiction is seeming more and more plausible given the trajectory of generative pretraining. We should probably write more stories about friendly AIs…
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I would love to have an nice hardback of the books that put as many of Tolkien's drawings in them as we have. I have copies that Alan Lee illustrated, and they're beautiful, but the subtlety…
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Where do the color names come from? They're delicious.
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I learned it in 7th since my 7-9 highschool had an option to test into it, and could have learned it in 6th.
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