Pictured above: The same area and zoom in 2010 and 2016. Notice how many fewer labels are on the 2016 map.
A similar thing happens with streets and roads within London: often main streets don't display their name until you've zoomed in way past it's useful.
The five keys to a successful Google team
Google's hiring formula. Stripped down by looking at the numbers. Some key points -- it doesn't favor GPA or schools one graduated from. It does favor problem-solving ability, but not in the old Fermi problem way. Questions are now real questions related to the roles that they will fill. Why? Because Fermi Problems can be coached.
Since the mid 1960s and the explosion of electronics, telephony, and the computer chip, corporate profit over net worth has been declining. This doesn’t mean that corporations have stopped making money. Profits in many sectors are still going up. But the most apparently successful companies are also sitting on more cash — real and borrowed — than ever before. Corporations have been great at extracting money from all corners of the world, but they don’t really have great ways of spending or investing it. The cash does nothing but collect.
I'm talking about optimizing the economy for the velocity of money rather than for the conversion of money into capital. It's going from a growth model to a flow model. Why are we, for instance, taxing capital gains at almost nothing but taxing dividends and earnings so high? That's a tax policy that is meant to favor the extraction of capital and to punish the exchange of things.
How to annotate PDFs in Google Drive
Google Forms
Chosen survey-taking software for iPad surveys given to users at GSU.
Indie EdTech is many times a personal; a philosophical, decision. It’s also many times a practical; an economical, decision. Open standards are about accessibility as much as anything else.
Agree with everything here. But it also seems to me--and perhaps this is what is meant by "accessible"--that over the long haul, open is not just right, it's better. That is to say, especially from the standpoint of knowledge production (whether scholarly or pedagogical) we need open source tools/solutions to ensure the best knowledge infrastructure over time. In short, we need something besides Google.
Readium plug-in for Chrome
Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.
I can't personally make the argument, but I don't think it would be hard to argue that in more than one way, through more than one initiative, Google has NOT held up this promise from this IPO letter.
Our search results are the best we know how to produce.
Is this really true?
despite having promised not to track students, Google is abusing its position of power as a provider of some educational services to profit off of students’ data when they use other Google services—services that Google has arbitrarily decided don’t deserve any protection.
‘quality of life’
(QOL)- general well being of individuals and societies. QOL has a wide range of contexts including fields of international development, healthcare, politics, and employment (Google/Wikipedia)
It’s free.
Free as in “tracked”. Sure, Google signed the privacy pledged and they don’t use data to advertise directly to students. But there are many loopholes. As rms makes very clear, GAfE is the exact opposite of Free Software. It’s “not having to pay for your own enslavement”.
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We discuss two examples where, byprioritizing user satisfaction as measured by ads blindnessor sightedness, we have changed the auction ranking func-tion [10] and drastically reduced the ad load on the mobileinterface. Reducing the mobile ad load strongly improvedthe user experience but was a substantially short-term rev-enue negative chang
Google Annotations Gallery
what is this resource? what does it do?
The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving messages to fellow developers with the @Deprecated annotation? Wouldn't you rather leave a @LOL or @Facepalm instead? If so, then this is the gallery for you.
For those who think Google is making us stupid
Namely Nicholas Carr, who wrote an oft-cited Atlantic article entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" to which the author answers "yes," concluding:
...As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.
Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters
This documentation describes the technology behind indexing of websites with scholarly articles in Google Scholar. It's written for webmasters who would like their papers included in Google Scholar search results. Detailed technical information is helpful if you're trying to fix an error in indexing of your own website, or you need to make sure that your article hosting product is compatible with Google and Google Scholar search services.
“People form first impressions about web pages in 17 milliseconds.”
Thus, even though it is not pa r- ticularly helpful to talk about Google as a c ommunity in its own rig ht, 21 it and other search engines play an important role in the overall mo d eration of the Web . 22
Indeed, Google search organizes communities from their inception: which entry points are immediately discoverable and which are not.
with the answers they wanted
Well, answers anyway.
Yet ad-based financing means that the companies have an interest in manipulating our attention on behalf of advertisers, instead of letting us connect as we wish. Many users think their feed shows everything that their friends post.
This is the crucial point for me: we are not really "connecting" through Facebook if the connection is not on our own terms, so the very concept that underlies the service is problematic.
The same can be said of Google: our search for information is not authentic if the search results are taking into consideration ad-partners, etc.
I'm personally much more concerned about this paradox in the latter case as it pertains to knowledge production.
Last year at Google I/O, Dugan showed us "a glimpse at a small band of pirates trying to do epic shit." This year, she’ll give us more than a glimpse: we’ll see several of those projects come to fruition and several more be announced. They include tech-infused fabrics, a new security paradigm for computers, and a computer small enough to fit inside a microSD card. ATAP is also premiering a 360-degree, live-action monster movie directed by Justin Lin called Help! shot with six Red EPIC Dragon cameras on a single rig.
Dugan describes everything ATAP does as "badass and beautiful," and after watching Help!, I’m inclined to agree.
There’s a scale for how to think about science. On one end there’s an attempt to solve deep, fundamental questions of nature; on the other is rote uninteresting procedure. There’s also a scale for creating products. On one end you find ambitious, important breakthroughs; on the other small, iterative updates. Plot those two things next to each other and you get a simple chart with four sections. Important science but no immediate practical use? That’s pure basic research — think Niels Bohr and his investigations into the nature of the atom. Not much science but huge practical implications? That’s pure applied research — think Thomas Edison grinding through thousands of materials before he lit upon the tungsten filament for the lightbulb.
ARE GOOGLE’S TRAVEL GOALS TOO AMBITIOUS?
Are Google's Travel Plans Too Ambitious?
Google and OTAs: the Bad, the Ugly and the Good
Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial complex.
Nafeez Ahmed is doing some interesting things to journalism now that he was fired from the Guardian. He funded this article through a kickstarter campaign. Excited to read this piece, haven't gotten around to it yet.
Where can we find this new Google encryption toolkit?
Google’s ultra-efficient data centers, with a PUE of 1.12, are beating the PUE curve by miles.
Google's PUE is 1.12
Google is already doing this. They have an “app” called Chrome, and when their app makes SSL connections to their own services, it checks to make sure that the certificates it sees are the ones it knows Google is using. They call this “pinning,” and you should do it for your mobile apps.