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SwiftKey

company on 3 shows · 10 statements across 1 episodes · said 11 times in 4 episodes since 2015

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MAD Assertion Partly supported
Medlock: SwiftKey is used on close to a billion devices worldwide
“We designed this in 2010, and it's now used on close to a billion devices worldwide.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 7:42 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
Medlock: SwiftKey chose independent probability distributions over neural networks for tractability
“And we took the first one of these because it's a lot easier and a lot more tractable.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 9:44 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
SwiftKey used Large Hadron Collider grid infrastructure to process language models
“So we, ah, we partnered with the University of Cambridge in the UK to use the European grid, which was put together to analyze the data from the Large Hadron Collider, which is why I show you this picture.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 12:12 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
SwiftKey scraped the entire public internet to train its language models
“We scraped all of the publicly available texts off the internet and dumped it into language specific buckets.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 12:24 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
SwiftKey's initial touch model used Gaussian distributions to map keypresses
“The system that we first built was to use Gaussian distributions to model the interaction of the person with the keyboard surface, and then we can use a linear Gaussian for the space bar, and the others are single point Gaussians.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 13:19 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
SwiftKey continuously retrains its touch model on-device as users type
“We build all this technology that runs on the phone. So while you're tapping on the keyboard, it's retraining via a re-parameterized version of MAP.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 13:55 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
SwiftKey saved users 15 trillion keystrokes out of 50 trillion typed characters
“We've had about 50 trillion characters written through the software, and we saved about 15 trillion keystrokes”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 15:14 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Supported
SwiftKey built Stephen Hawking's upgraded communication technology
“We just recently built Stephen Hawking's new communication technology”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 15:32 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
Medlock: SwiftKey licenses predictive typing tech to Samsung
“We also license the technology to people like Samsung who build their own keyboards on top of it.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 17:27 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
MAD Disclosure
SwiftKey accidentally launched its first Dutch keyboard without a profanity filter
“I do remember we, ah, we launched the, ah, Dutch version, the first Dutch version, we forgot to switch on the profanity filter. So it went out, and it was utter filth.”
Ben Medlock Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 19:10 Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)

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