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www.optimizesmart.com www.optimizesmart.com
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Debug mode allows you to see only the data generated by your device while validating analytics and also solves the purpose of having separate data streams for staging and production (no more separate data streams for staging and production).
good to know.
Seems to contradict their advice on https://www.optimizesmart.com/using-the-ga4-test-property/ to create a test property...
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google-research.github.io google-research.github.io
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We present SoundStorm, a model for efficient, non-autoregressive audio generation. SoundStorm receives as input the semantic tokens of AudioLM, and relies on bidirectional attention and confidence-based parallel decoding to generate the tokens of a neural audio codec. Compared to the autoregressive generation approach of AudioLM, our model produces audio of the same quality and with higher consistency in voice and acoustic conditions, while being two orders of magnitude faster. SoundStorm generates 30 seconds of audio in 0.5 seconds on a TPU-v4. We demonstrate the ability of our model to scale audio generation to longer sequences by synthesizing high-quality, natural dialogue segments, given a transcript annotated with speaker turns and a short prompt with the speakers' voices.
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adjacentpossible.substack.com adjacentpossible.substack.com
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Project Tailwind by Steven Johnson
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developers.google.com developers.google.com
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Will not read or write first-party [analytics cookies]. Cookieless pings will be sent to Google Analytics for basic measurement and modeling purposes.
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- May 2023
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bard.google.com bard.google.comBard1
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Meet Bard: your creative and helpful collaborator, here to supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and bring your ideas to life.
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Ein Bericht von Umwelt-Organisationen und des Center for Countering Digital Hate ergibt, dass Google nach wie vor viel Geld mit Anzeigen in der Umgebung von Inhalten von Klimleugnern verdient. 2021 hatte Google versprochen, auf solche Werbung zu verzichten. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/technology/google-youtube-disinformation-climate-change.html
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Google allowed third parties to build their own Wave services (be it private or commercial) because it wanted the Wave protocol to replace the e-mail protocol.[2][16][17] Initially, Google was the only Wave service provider, but it was hoped that other service providers would launch their own Wave services, possibly designing their own unique web-based clients as is common with many email service providers.
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www.edutopia.org www.edutopia.org
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Werberger, Raleigh. “Using Old Tech (Not Edtech) to Teach Thinking Skills.” Edutopia (blog), January 28, 2015. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/old-tech-teach-thinking-skills-raleigh-werberger.
link to: https://boffosocko.com/2022/11/05/55811174/ for related suggestion using index cards rather than Post-it Notes.
This process is also a good physical visualization of how Hypothes.is works.
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support.google.com support.google.com
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Is there anyway around the 1 yr limit ? I have been a google user for 10+ years and recently was going to move from Australia to America and as such updated my location. The move however didnt work out and now back in Australia I am unable to access many of the local apps due to my location being locked to the US.
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www.ghacks.net www.ghacks.net
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Google claims: “We associate your Google Account with a country (or region) so that we can better provide our services to you.” I call 100% smelly bug-ridden B.S. This is obviously some crap written by their nasty lawyers to protect Google’s well-exposed and ugly backside. Google couldn’t give a rat’s ass about any of us. They’ve made that clear by their actions time and time again.
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www.inkandswitch.com www.inkandswitch.com
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Actually, versioning problems also affect major online tools.
Google Docs sometimes merges file versions which means their versioning is unreliable.
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Unable to see a previous version of your file? The revisions for your file may occasionally be merged to save storage space. Note: If you don't have permission to edit a file, you won't be able to see the version history.
In other words, Google Docs can't be relied on for versioning.
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google search for "Ronald Wright surviving progress"
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Google Books .pdf document equivalence problem #7884
I've noticed on a couple of .pdf documents from Google books that their fingerprints, lack thereof, or some other glitch in creating document equivalency all seem to clash creating orphans.
Example, the downloadable .pdf of Geyer's Stationer 1904 found at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Geyer_s_Stationer/L507AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 currently has 109 orphaned annotations caused by this issue.
See also a specific annotation on this document: https://hypothes.is/a/vNmUHMB3Ee2VKgt4yhjofg
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csulauniversitytimes.com csulauniversitytimes.com
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Fashion is a non-verbal communication that can represent one’s political and religious beliefs, gender identity, occupation, and essence. Whether intentional or not, the way that you dress can send a message to others about how you view yourself and how you want to be seen.
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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The conflict of interest he now has is evident but that's not something that should be used to flame him, it's just the way it is.
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www.greenbiz.com www.greenbiz.com
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Addressing the nexus of concerns related to water and electricity consumption — along with the associated impact on carbon dioxide emissions — is one of the biggest challenges faced by any big data center operator. In a blog about its new commitment, Brandt reports that water-cooled data centers use about 10 percent less energy than those using methods related to air cooling. Last year, the company estimated that using water cooling helped Google reduce the "energy-related carbon footprint" of its data centers by about 300,000 tons of CO2.
Does this imply the use of water cooled racks?
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- Feb 2023
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wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com
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Wordcraft Writers Workshop by Andy Coenen - PAIR, Daphne Ippolito - Brain Research Ann Yuan - PAIR, Sehmon Burnam - Magenta
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The application is powered by LaMDA, one of the latest generation of large language models. At its core, LaMDA is a simple machine — it's trained to predict the most likely next word given a textual prompt. But because the model is so large and has been trained on a massive amount of text, it's able to learn higher-level concepts.
Is LaMDA really able to "learn higher-level concepts" or is it just a large, straight-forward information theoretic-based prediction engine?
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People + AI Research (PAIR) is a multidisciplinary team at Google that explores the human side of AI by doing fundamental research, building tools, creating design frameworks, and working with diverse communities.
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www.calcalistech.com www.calcalistech.com
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You have reached your destination: Google elegantly says goodbye to Waze by Omer Kabir
read on Sun 2022-12-11 7:13 AM
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From Google; once considered by one of its researchers to be sentient.
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- Jan 2023
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citejournal.org citejournal.org
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Google frames the practices of teachers toward the banking model of education (Freire, 1970), potentially setting up a dynamic wherein the teacher has the most power and students are present to “receive” the knowledge of the instructor (Gleason & Heath, 2020).
This framing is likely the result of an uncritical approach to traditional pedagogic practices, similar to HE faculty who simply teach the way they were taught because "that's how it's done". Unlike faculty, tech tools can't be trained in better or more responsive methods but rather contribute to further fossilization.
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Big tech has benefited from an educational dynamic that consistently underfunds public education but demands increased technology to prepare the workers of the future, providing low-cost solutions in exchange for data and the potential for future product loyalty
This is a pattern most of us are familiar with. The best example I know is Apple's launch of the iPad in LA schools without saying, or knowning, how it will be used. Apple has a long history of testing its products out on users. Google habitually does the same, offering products for "free" in exchange for data and expanding a user base for its products.
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newsroom.spotify.com newsroom.spotify.com
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a challenging macro environment
I wonder if this is à la Google. From the twitter thread:
Pretty incredible that Google is trying to get away with blaming macroeconomic conditions for their layoffs, when over the last year they’ve spend 57.36B on stock buybacks.
That’s enough to support the 12,000 laid off engineers at their median engineer compensation for 23 years.
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It is not a bad plan for two or more students to meet at stated intervals and compare their notes . The lecture can be discussed so that thepoints omitted or not fully understood can be placed correctly in the notebook against the final test . The chance for error is greatly decreased inthis way and, besides , the discussion greatly aids the memory so that thework of studying from the notes is lessened . In at least one instance wherethe speaker delivered his lecture very rapidly several students arrangedto take his points in relays ; that is, since there was scarcely time for oneman to get all, one man could take the first point, another the second, andso on. These men occupied seats close together so that an exchange ofsignals was possible. Afterwards they discussed each lecture and puttheir notes together.
Apparently sharing/comparing notes was reasonable advice in 1910 including the idea of in-class signals for splitting up note taking amongst multiple people.
Compare this to shared notes (Google Docs, Etherpad, etc.) in modern context with multiple people doing simultaneous notes.
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garrit.xyz garrit.xyz
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maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles services hosted under this domain.
Google can now geo-track us across all services
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Three weeks ago, an experimental chat bot called ChatGPT made its case to be the industry’s next big disrupter. It can serve up information in clear, simple sentences, rather than just a list of internet links. It can explain concepts in ways people can easily understand. It can even generate ideas from scratch, including business strategies, Christmas gift suggestions, blog topics and vacation plans.
ChatGPT's synthesis of information versus Google Search's list of links
The key difference here, though, is that with a list of links, one can follow the links and evaluate the sources. With a ChatGPT response, there are no citations to the sources—just an amalgamation of statements that may or may not be true.
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By AD 500, the Christian Church had drawn most of the talented men of theage into its service, in either missionary, organizational, doctrinal, or purelycontemplative activity.—Edward Grant, Physical Science in the Middle Ages
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Google is like the Catholic Church both as organizers of information and society<br /> Just as the Catholic Church used funding from the masses to employ most of the smartest and talented to its own needs and mission from 500-1000 AD, Google has used advertising technology to collect people and employed them to their own needs. For one, the root was religion and the other technology, but both were organizing people and information for their own needs.
Who/what organization will succeed them? What will its goals and ethics entail?
(originally written 2022-12-11)
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www.bmpi.dev www.bmpi.dev软件工程1
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2022-09-16 Google软件工程之工具篇
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Example of a literature review/research workflow using online repositories (like Google Scholar, Scopus, Clarivate, etc.), Zotero, Research Rabbit, and Obsidian.
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theswaddle.com theswaddle.com
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The scientific community is, thus, increasingly using technological tools including drones, recorders, robots and AI to study the calls of a range of species, from chickens and rodents, to cats and lemurs.
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support.google.com support.google.com
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zephoria.medium.com zephoria.medium.com
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The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn’t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop. And news organizations had it in the form of buildings in the middle of town. So financiers squeezed the news orgs until there was no money to be squeezed and then they hung them out to dry. There was no configuration in which local news was going to survive, no magical upwards trajectory of revenue based on advertising alone. If it weren’t for Craigslist and Google, the financiers would’ve squeezed these enterprises for a few more years, but the end state was always failure.
danah boyd posits that journalism in the United States didn't fail as the result of Craigslist or Google, but because of hedge funds and investors acquiring them to strip out their valuable real estate.
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- Nov 2022
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simonwillison.net simonwillison.net
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Mastodon is just blogs and Google Reader, skinned to look like Twitter.
And this, in part, is just what makes social readers so valuable: a tight(er) integration of a reading and conversational interface.
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8/mastodon-is-just-blogs/
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CEO, Mike Tung was on Data science podcast. Seems to be solving problem that Google search doesn't; how seriously should you take the results that come up? What confidence do you have in their truth or falsity?
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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the tech giant only shows small “snippets” of in-copyright works. The full digitized books are walled-off, making only certain uses possible. Researchers can fact-check using Google Books, or they can examine the number of times particular words and phrases are mentioned in the corpus each year, but they can’t really read Google’s online version of most volumes.
Allowing readers to get a very small view of the book they are looking to read can be like watching a movie trailer before renting or purchasing the movie. Google keeping the sources behind a wall lets the author be protected.
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conteudo.companyhero.com conteudo.companyhero.com
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Importante fornecer um e-mail válido para a solicitação da nota fiscal.
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- O valor mínimo para comissionamento é de R$100,00. Abaixo disso, ficará em "stand-by" acumulando para pagamento. CNAEs: para emissão da nota fiscal, podem ser utilizados quaisquer CNAEs, exceto consultoria. Os pagamentos ocorrem sempre às segundas. Geramos um lote por semana, portanto, as NFs serão pagas na primeira segunda-feira após o recebimento pelo financeiro. As solicitações de nota podem ocorrer até a terceira semana de cada mês. É muito importante que os CADs mantenham seus cadastros atualizados. E-mail, telefone, etc. Os pagamentos ocorrem no mês subsequente à ativação. Ex: ativação em outubro, receberá em novembro. Só é comissionada a primeira ativação do cliente. Quando um cliente contrata mensal, o pagamento do CAD não se torna recorrente, é apenas na primeira parcela. Não serão comissionadas primeiras ativações que forem advindas de Google ADS.
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they get billions and billions and billions of searches every day and only about 15% of the searches that they've seen a given day. Our new that they've never seen before. So 85% of the searches that the world does on Google every day are things they've already seen.
15% of daily searches are unique
Or, put another way 85% of searches are something that Google has seen before. There is no citation for this, and I think it is more complex than this because Google uses signals other than the keyed search to rank results. Still, an interesting tid-bit if the source could be tracked down.
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Denmark’s data protection regulator found that local schools did not really understand what Google was doing with students’ data and as a result blocked around 8,000 students from using the Chromebooks that had become a central part of their daily education.
Danish data regulator puts a temporary ban on Google education products
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Google Forms and Sheets allow users toannotate using customizable tools. Google Forms offers a graphicorganizer that can prompt student-determined categorical input andthen feeds the information into a Sheets database. Sheetsdatabases are taggable, shareable, and exportable to other software,such as Overleaf (London, UK) for writing and Python for coding.The result is a flexible, dynamic knowledge base with many learningapplications for individual and group work
Who is using these forms in practice? I'd love to see some examples.
This sort of set up could be used with some outlining functionality to streamline the content creation end of common note taking practices.
Is anyone using a spreadsheet program (Excel, Google Sheets) as the basis for their zettelkasten?
Link to examples of zettelkasten as database (Webb, Seignobos suggestions)
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stratechery.com stratechery.com
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Working backwards, Google isn’t legally compelled to give Mark a hearing about his digital life (Sixth Amendment); they are wrong not to. Google isn’t legally compelled to give Mark due process before permanently deleting his digital life (Fifth Amendment); they are wrong not to. Google isn’t legally compelled to not search all of the photographs uploaded to Google (by default, if you click through all of the EULA’s); they are…well, this is where it gets complicated.
Ben Thompson makes the case that although Google is acting within legal bounds, morally their behavior is wrong and incompatible with the spirit of the Fifth, Sixth and possibly Fourth Amendments.
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Ben Thompson discusses the tradeoffs of Google pre-emptively scanning mobile pictures to combat child pornography with reference to a recent case where a concerned father had his digital life wiped out by Google (and not reinstated after being cleared by law enforcement) after sending a picture of his son's penis to his family doctor.
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Even if you grant the arguments that this awesome exercise of surveillance is warranted, given the trade-offs in question, that makes it all the more essential that the utmost care be taken in case the process gets it wrong. Google ought to be terrified it has this power, and be on the highest alert for false positives; instead the company has gone in the opposite direction, setting itself as judge, jury, and executioner, even when the people we have collectively entrusted to lock up criminals ascertain there was no crime. It is beyond arrogant, and gives me great unease about the company generally, and its long-term investments in AI in particular.
Ben Thompson argues that Google should be incredibly wary in finding themselves in the position where they can lawfully act as the judge, jury and executioner presiding over someone's digital life. And yet they don't seem to be.
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support.google.com support.google.com
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How do I turn off the requirement to have a lock screen?Today, I'm suddenly unable to use any Google related apps on my phone, because I am now REQUIRED to set up a lock screen on my phone. I get that you want to be super-secure for businesses using enterprise devices. I am not a business. I'm some guy who just happens to have a domain name. My only "employee" is me. I have a two email addresses: My real first name, and the shorter version that most people call me. I do NOT want a lock screen on my phone. I don't want to be forced to give myself permission to use apps on my phone. Why am I now required to add all this bull$%^? Nobody is hacking my interwebs. Give me a f#$%^& break! I don't need a lock screen. I've been using this account for everything (gmail, youtube, etc) for over five years now. I'm not interested in deleting it and going back to my gmail.com account. I'm also not interested in being forced to click multiple times just to use my phone. Let me disable it.So, how do I turn this garbage off?
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In 1910, Otlet and La Fontaine shifted their attention to the establishment of the Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium. Again with government support, the aim of this institution was to bring together all of the world’s knowledge in a single UDC index. They created the gigantic repository as a service where anyone in the world could submit an inquiry on any topic for a fee.
Mundaneum as an early prototype of Google Search
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As described by Otlet, the ambition of the UBR was to build “an inventory of all that has been written at all times, in all languages, and on all subjects.”
Paul Otlet attempted to index all the worlds' knowledge years before Goggle was conceived.
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Google and Youtube search are heavily censored, for example if you open Youtube and type "JRE alex" then Alex Jones will be the last suggestion despite his episode having the most views, if you type "JRE Robert" then Youtube will suggest Robert Downey Jr and other guests whose name starts with Robert, but it won't show Robert Malone, and if you write "JRE Robert Malon" it still won't suggest it.
Popular episodes of Joe Rogan are being censored by YouTube. You won't find them with a normal search.
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Google 在今年二月宣布了 Chrome OS 的一个新版本 Chrome OS Flex,设计运行在旧的 PC 和 Mac 上。Chrome OS Flex 的外观与运行在 Chromebook 笔记本电脑上的 Chrome OS 相同,基于相同的代码库和发布周期。Google 称,安装 Chrome OS Flex 非常简单,首先是创建一个可引导的 U 盘,然后用几分钟时间在设备上安装替代原操作系统。当时 Chrome OS Flex 处于早期发布阶段(early access)。本周 Google 宣布该操作系统进入到 GA(general availability) 阶段,并认证了逾 400 款设备,可以稳定运行 Chrome OS Flex,其中包括苹果 Mac Mini 7,1、苹果 MacBook 7,1、苹果 MacBook Air 5,1、第一代联想 ThinkPad X1 Carbon 等等。
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youneedawiki.com youneedawiki.com
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Looks like a service that takes a Google Docs folder and turns it into a wiki. Clever!
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www.google.com www.google.com
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Google's use of thumbnail images in its Image. Search is fair and noninfringing
Commercialization of fair use
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As ever, we need to do more listening. And reading, there's lots of interesting references in here to read.
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Google still uses it for the base ranking. But, the results are then run through a variety of add-on ML pipelines, like Vince (authority/brand power), Panda (inbound link quality), Penguin (content quality), and many others that target other attributes (page layout, ad placement, etc). Then there's also more granular weightings for things like "power within a niche", where a new page might do well for plumbing (because of other existing pages on the site), but wouldn't automatically have any authority for medical topics.
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www.computerworld.com www.computerworld.com
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It's the feedback that's motivating A-list bloggers like Digg founder Kevin Rose to shut down their blogs and redirect traffic to their Google+ profiles. I have found the same to be true.
This didn't work out too well for them did it?
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Google Scholar does not disclose the size of its database, but it is widely acknowledged to be the biggest corpus in existence, with close to 400 million articles by one estimate (M. Gusenbauer Scientometrics 118, 177–214; 2019).
Google Scholar was estimated to cover 400 million articles in 2019. It's acknowledged to be the largest research corpus, but the company doesn't publicly publish the size of its database.
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Besides published articles, Google Scholar might also pick up preprints as well as “low-quality theses and dissertations”, Tay says. Even so, “you get some gems you might not have seen”, he says. (Scopus, a competing literature database maintained by the Amsterdam-based publisher Elsevier, began incorporating preprints earlier this year, a spokesperson says. But it does not index theses and dissertations. “There will be titles that do not meet the Scopus standards but are covered by Google Scholar,” he says.)
Scopus primarily covers regularly published journals with ISSN numbers and began including preprints in 2021, while Google Scholar has a broader net that also includes theses, dissertations, preprints, and books.
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Aaron Tay, a librarian at Singapore Management University who studies academic search tools, gets literature recommendations from both Twitter and Google Scholar, and finds that the latter often highlights the same articles as his human colleagues, albeit a few days later. Google Scholar “is almost always on target”, he says.
Anecdotal evidence indicates that manual human curation as evinced by Twitter front runs Google Scholar by a few days.
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Byline Times. (2020, October 25). Google doing its job here. Our revelations about the Koch funded libertarian think tanks behind the discredited Herd Immunity theory is public interest journalism [Tweet]. @BylineTimes. https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1320322956837425152
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Fraser Myers. (2020, October 10). Google is censoring The Great Barrington Declaration. When you search for it you’re directed to a conspiracy theory from Byline Times https://t.co/OUVBeFi4Mr [Tweet]. @FraserMyers. https://twitter.com/FraserMyers/status/1314874791745277953
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We asked them to collect searches they performed in their normal workday, and then evaluate their performance on Google, Bing, Neeva, You.com, Kagi, and DuckDuckGo.Here are more examples of programming queries where Google is lagging behind.
For example, searching for "python throw exception" will show better results in Neeva or You.com than in Google
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artsandculture.google.com artsandculture.google.com
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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The tech industry's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress." I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago, an interview with an Uber engineer who'd pleaded guilty to stealing Google's self-driving car technology. "The only thing that matters is the future," he told the magazine. "I don't even know why we study history. It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn't really matter. You don't need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." (I could tie this attitude to the Italian Futurists and to fascism, but that’s a presentation for another day.)
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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The cloud advantage was one of the main pillars upon which the Stadia business was built, and there just isn't any evidence that this theoretical benefit is working to Google's benefit in real life.
Has better latency != can have better latency. If there's demand for Stadia I assume they could use more of those data centers. But not sure the performance of Stadaia is the problem here, it's far far easier to use Stadia than Gefore NOW. Yet, people don't use it.
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"The fundamental benefit of our cloud-native infrastructure is that developers will be able to take advantage of hardware and power in ways never before possible, and that includes taking advantage of the power of multiple GPUs at once."
Notably, this goal has been stated before, I believe by Microsoft for the Xbox 360? Running demanding workloads in the cloud elastically makes a lot more sense than buying hardware you rarely use.
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Google killed SG&E about one year after Stadia launched, before the studio had released a game or done any public work. In a blog post announcing Stadia's pivot to a "platform technology," Stadia VP Phil Harrison explained the decision to shutter SG&E, saying, "Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially."
I suspect Google wanted faster, more measurable results than is possible with game development. There's a reason why tech companies are vastly more profitable than game companies.
I don't particularly see the shame in changing a strategy that isn't working. As an early user of Stadia I do see the lost potential though, maybe that's where this is coming from.
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With Stadia's consumer model going down the drain, Google announced it would pivot Stadia to become a behind-the-scenes, white-label data center service that the company will reportedly re-brand as "Google Stream."
I think that makes a lot of sense. Google doesn't want to do the "platform building" Microsoft and Sony excel at, and it doesn't have to.
Imagine playing or trying out video games simply on the developers website.
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One of the many problems the platform faces is that Stadia hardware is only good for Stadia. It can't run anything other than Stadia, so Google is reluctant to invest in this single-use hardware and keep it up to date. The Stadia computer you're renting from Google is pretty outdated.
I would love some sources on this.
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Stadia certainly isn't available in "over 200 countries." It's available in just 22 countries, or about 10 percent of the scale Pichai heavily implied Google could work at.
Do the other countries have sufficiently fast internet infrastructure to make streaming work well for many people? Is there demand for Stadia there? What's the criticism regarding this exactly?
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kotaku.com kotaku.com
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One source described the Q&A as an ultimately unsuccessful attempt at extracting some kind of accountability from Stadia management.
There is no accountability to people inside corporations, only to results. Which is working as intended, companies are meant to make money by serving customers, not employees.
The simple "truth" here is that these Stadia games likely wouldn't have been successful without a lot of additional investments.
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We will confirm the SG&E investment envelope shortly, which will, in turn, inform the SG&E strategy
That's corporate speak for "prepare for budget cuts". If nothing would change, they'd have said so directly.
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- Jan 2022
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hbr.org hbr.org
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at peak flu levels reached 11% of the US public this flu season, almost double the CDC’s estimate of about 6%.
How is google retaining this data. It seems weird to me that they would just refuse to explain the error. There has to be a reason that Google would come to a conclusion that is double that of the CDC.
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support.mozilla.org support.mozilla.org
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Google/gmail calls apps that don't support OAuth2 "less secure". But, that doesn't make them insecure. So what it means is gmail's meaning of LessSecureApp is basically anything that doesn’t use OAuth2.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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But Google also uses optical character recognition to produce a second version, for its search engine to use, and this double process has some quirks. In a scriptorium lit by the sun, a scribe could mistakenly transcribe a “u” as an “n,” or vice versa. Curiously, the computer makes the same mistake. If you enter qualitas—an important term in medieval philosophy—into Google Book Search, you’ll find almost two thousand appearances. But if you enter “qnalitas” you’ll be rewarded with more than five hundred references that you wouldn’t necessarily have found.
I wonder how much Captcha technology may have helped to remedy this in the intervening years?
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He said the new AI tutor platform collects “competency skills graphs” made by educators, then uses AI to generate learning activities, such as short-answer or multiple-choice questions, which students can access on an app. The platform also includes applications that can chat with students, provide coaching for reading comprehension and writing, and advise them on academic course plans based on their prior knowledge, career goals and interest
I saw an AI Tutor demo as ASU+GSV in 2021 and it was still early stage. Today, the features highlighted here are yet to be manifested in powerful ways that are worth utilizing, however, I do believe the aspirations are likely to be realized, and in ways beyond what the product managers are even hyping. (For example, I suspect AI Tutor will one day be able to provide students feedback in the voice/tone of their specific instructor.)
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The Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium consists of over 150 U.S. companies like Deloitte, Infosys, Snap Inc., Target, Verizon, and of course, Google. These companies span multiple sectors and are committed to considering Google Career Certificate graduates for entry-level jobs. Upon completion of a Google Career Certificate, you will gain access to an exclusive job platform where you can easily apply to opportunities from employers with open jobs. https://grow.google/certificates/it-support/#?modal_active=none
The consortium consists of 150 companies in December, 2021. This will increase. Significant community college reaction is (wisely?) sensing an opportunity instead of a threat. They are collaborating and indications are they will benefit across multiple verticals. I'm excited to see how this plays out in 4-year spaces of Higher Ed:
- Will HE react to a threat or an opportunity?
- How might domains like interpersonal and intercultural skills be credentialed in a way that fosters an interoperable ecosystem between HE and industry efforts like this?
- How will HE endeavor to consume credentials issued by non-accredited bodies?
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- Dec 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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About 7 in 10 Americans think their phone or other devices are listening in on them in ways they did not agree to.
I'm enough of a tinfoil hat wearer to this this might be true. Especially since my google home talks to me entirely too much when I'm not talking to it.
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thecontrol.co thecontrol.co
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Google trends data shows interest in NFTs recently surpassed interest in cryptocurrency.
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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experimental intonation
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- Nov 2021
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qeunit.com qeunit.com
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Here are the impressive detailed statistics from their repository as of 2015, for which more recent data is challenging to obtain.
Interesting statistics (mostly inside diagrams) from 2015 on Google's big [[monorepo]] (which is NOT
git
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tabmaker.withgoogle.com tabmaker.withgoogle.com
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Tab Maker有些类似 Google 早年的产品「iGoogle」服务,该服务可以让用户按照个人的喜好来方便地定制和整合不同来源的信息在 Google 主页上,使其成为一个个性化的门户。
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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Google Meet5.a.Google Classroom
Google Classroom Google Meet,
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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Google Meet5.a.
Google Meet; 5.a.
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themarkup.org themarkup.org
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Impressive search-results tinkering, but also quite handy (e.g. knowledge panels like wikipedia extracts).
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- Oct 2021
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We will also show you how to de-link your Chrome profile from your Google account(s) by stopping Chrome from syncing with Google in the first place. This will help keep your Chrome profile separate from your Google account and enhance your online privacy.
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To do that, Chrome automatically links your Chrome profile to a Google account when you sign in to any Google service on the web. That helps Google deliver a ‘seamless experience’ across all devices by letting you sync your history, bookmarks, passwords, etc., across multiple devices. Meanwhile, privacy-conscious users see this as a major threat to their online privacy and advise users to remove their Google account from Chrome.
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As mentioned already, Chrome automatically signs you in to your Google account every time you sign into a Google service, like Gmail, YouTube, Google Photos, etc. It also links your current Chrome profile to that account. While Google says that it does so to offer a ‘seamless experience’, it is a privacy nightmare for many users.
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www.ghacks.net www.ghacks.net
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Some Chrome users may like the new functionality as it makes it easier for them to sign in or out of Chrome and Google on the Web. Others may dislike it for privacy and user-choice reasons. Think about it, if you sign in to Chrome you are automatically recognized by any Google property on the web as that Google user.
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support.google.com support.google.com
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I have all my bookmarks and settings attached to an account which is part of a Gsuite i'm not part of anymore, so i want to resync my chrome with my personal account, but I don't know how to import all the bookmarks and settings from the old Gsuite account to my personal one
I can relate...
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www.google.com www.google.com
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sync with Google Drive
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material.io material.io
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Material is a design system – backed by open-source code – that helps teams build high-quality digital experiences.
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materializecss.com materializecss.com
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We did most of the heavy lifting for you to provide a default stylings that incorporate our custom components.
(The English here sounds awkward.)
Gyuri Lajos, in the Stop Reset Go team, recommended using Materialize CSS.
If it is based on Google’s Material Design, there are a lot of resources available to explore the possibilities. If I was building a Progressive Web App, this might be the place to start.
The project appears to be at an early stage of development, with a 1.0.0 release.
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materializecss.com materializecss.com
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Created and designed by Google, Material Design is a design language that combines the classic principles of successful design along with innovation and technology.
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artsandculture.google.com artsandculture.google.com
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Bauhaus Everywhere
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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YouTube is banning Joseph Mercola and a handful of other anti-vaccine activists—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/
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- Sep 2021
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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在 Search On 活动中,Google 引入了几项新功能,综合看来这些新功能是该公司迄今为止最强有力的尝试,让用户不只是在搜索框里简单输入几个单词。通过在一些细节之处应用新的多任务统一模型(Multitask Unified Model,MUM)机器学习技术,该公司希望开启一个良性循环:它将提供更多的细节和语境更为丰富的答案,希望用户会因此询问更为详细、语境更为丰富的问题,最终结果是提供更丰富更深入的搜索体验。Google 负责搜索的高级副总裁 Prabhakar Raghavan 也负责 Assistan、广告和其他产品。他喜欢说——而且他在上周日的一次采访中也重申——“搜索可不是一个已经解决掉了的问题。”这可能是真的,但是他和他的团队现在试图解决的问题与网络上的争吵并没什么关系,而是更多地为了给找到的内容添加语境。 对 Google 而言,该公司将利用机器学习技术,发挥自身识别相关主题关联内容的能力,并且以一种有组织的方式将这些关联内容呈现给用户。即将重新设计的 Google 搜索将开始显示“该知道的事(Things to know)”框,将你送到不同的子主题。当视频中的某个部分与这个主题相关时——即使整个视频与此并无关联——它也会将你送到那里。购物结果将开始显示附近商店的库存,甚至还会显示与你的搜索相关的、不同款式的服装。对你而言,Google 正在提供一种超越文本框的、新的搜索方式。该公司正在积极推动旗下图像识别软件 Google Lens 进入更多地方。它将被内置于 iOS 上的 Google 应用程序以及桌面上的 Chrome 网络浏览器中。Google 希望,通过 MUM,能让用户不仅仅识别鲜花或者地标,而是能够直接使用 Lens 提问和购物。
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I have always rooted for Mozilla in preventing Google from obtaining unequivocal control of what has become the most critical software platform in the modern era, one that holds relevance in nearly everyone's life: the web.
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softwaresondemand.com softwaresondemand.com
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The SoftwaresOnDemand.com Website Builder is packed with features, widgets, and tools to help you get your website online.
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academic.logos.com academic.logos.com
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For me, using Google Keep has become an Edwardsian notebook of its own right.
However, this depends on Google "keeping" your notes for the long-haul. Given their propensity to discontinue projects, that seems hazardous. At least Hypothesis provides a mechanism that's more open: i'm not sure whether it can be considered stable and secure for the long-term.
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Chan, H. F., Rizio, S. M., Skali, A., & Torgler, B. (2021). Early COVID-19 Government Communication Is Associated With Reduced Interest in the QAnon Conspiracy Theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.681975
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www.isca-speech.org www.isca-speech.org
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Personalized ASR models. For each of the 432 participants with disordered speech, we create a personalized ASR model (SI-2) from their own recordings. Our fine-tuning procedure was optimized for our adaptation process, where we only have between ¼ and 2 h of data per speaker. We found that updating only the first five encoder layers (versus the complete model) worked best and successfully prevented overfitting [10]
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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The researchers found that the model, when it is still confused by a given phoneme (that’s an individual speech sound like an “e” or “f”), has two kinds of errors. First, there’s the fact that it doesn’t recognize the phoneme for what was intended, and thus is not recognizing the word. And second, the model has to guess which phoneme the speaker did intend, and might choose the wrong one in cases where two or more words sound roughly similar.
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www.sheet-posting.me www.sheet-posting.me
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks </span> in #indieweb 2021-09-06 (<time class='dt-published'>09/06/2021 16:14:19</time>)</cite></small>
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- Aug 2021
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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作为 Google 旗下第一款即时通讯平台,Google Talk 于 2005 年 8 月 24 日推出。这意味着 Google 开发通讯客户端的时间比某些竞争对手诞生的时间点还要早。但随着过去十五年间持续不断的战略变化、竞争产品的发布以及内部冲突,Google 至今也拿不出一款占据主导地位、甚至真正称得上稳定的即时通讯平台。这十余年间的反复折腾,还给了其他更为专注的厂商们壮大的机会。令人尴尬的是,目前市面上的几乎所有拳头产品都比 Google 的同类方案更年轻。WhatsApp 只有 12 岁,Facebook Messenger 9 岁,iMessage 9 岁,Slack 8岁——而曾经的老大哥 Google Talk 甚至在 Zoom 诞生的四年之前就已经在提供视频聊天功能。 很明显,Google 的通讯产品比不上之前提到的任何一款重量级竞品。事实上,Google 内部一直缺乏一种占据主导的消息应用,白白浪费掉了十几年宝贵光阴。如今的 Google 既无法彻底克服这个问题,也无法集全力构建单一产品。Facebook 与 Salesforce 等厂商都在单一通讯应用上投入了数百亿美元,但 Google 却似乎仅仅满足于一个个由跳槽项目经理负责的,资金不足、人员不稳的小项目。曾经有一段时间,Google 也开发出过一款不错的消息收发解决方案,但随时关停、发展重心的反复转移以及因此对产品成熟度造成的严重破坏,导致 Google 无法将那一点点客户好感留存至今。或者说 Google 的表现有一种特殊性,我们很少看到哪家公司会在同一个坑里挣扎这么长时间、尝试开发这么多不同的产品(Google Chat 才刚刚推出不到一个月)。
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