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- The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- Ara Mahdessian: ServiceTitan Would Not Be the Success if We Raised VC Earlier | E1175 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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- Richard Craib – Crowdsourcing Data Science for Returns at Numerai (Capital Allocators, EP.314)
- Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
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- Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
- Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More
- Translation Tool Breaks $1.2m Run Rate, 3,000 Customers, New Raise Soon?
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8 statements about Google Translate, every show
Jeff Dean Cut Google Translate Latency from 12 Hours to 100ms
“And Jeff's work with the team gets that average sentence translation time down from 12 hours to 100 milliseconds.”
Google Translate Was Google's First Production Language Model
“So this is the first large, I'm using large in quotes here, language model used in production in a product at Google.”
Incorporating LSTMs Cut Google Translate Error Rate by 60%
“And indeed, in 2016, they incorporated into Google Translate these LSTMs. It reduces the error rate by 60%.”
Gomez: Google quickly integrated Transformer architecture into Search and Translate
“No, they jumped all over it. So it went to production inside of search, inside of translate, like the existing product suite. And so they, to say that they didn't adopt the transformer architecture would not be correct.”
Craib: Numerai outperforms pros similarly to Google Translate outperforming human linguists
“They just model the data, and that's what, what's happening at Numeri, and just like Google Translate, they can be a lot better than a professional Translator on certain languages, and Numeri can be better than a professional investor.”
Welde: AI translation still requires humans for mission-critical business content
“There's definitely humans involved, and while, while AI and machine translation, you know, computer-generated translation, like something like Google Translate, you know, has gone, undergone some really incredible advances in the last year or so the translatio…”
Tran Hung relies on Google Translate for Uquid customer support
“I using quite a lot of Google, Google translation.
Yeah, support our customer.”