Ben Gilbert

The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 miles per hour.

Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics.

So good.

Jeff Dean's pin is the last four digits of pi.

Yes.

To Jeff Dean, NP means no problemo.

Absolutely.

So early natural language systems, computationally expensive.

They had like a 10-year run where they basically launched everything you know of at Google except for search.

Truly in a 10-year run.

And then there were about 10 years after that from 2013 on where they basically didn't launch any new products that you've heard about until we get to Gemini, which is this fascinating thing.

But this 03 to 2013 era was just so rich with hit after hit after hit.

Oh, I heard this story.

Hey, learn the rules of the game and use them to your advantage.

And you won't get a perfect translation.

But, you know, imagine you just translate every single word.

You can at least go translate those all at the same time in parallel, reassemble the sentence and like mostly understand what the initial meaning was.

They are the single best company in the world at parallelizing workloads across CPUs across multiple data centers.

This sounds like a Jeff Dean fact.

Well, you know, it used to take 12 hours, and then Jeff Dean took a few months with it.