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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 1:18 Matt Turck I'd love to, to start with that, with what your personal journey is, um, through, you know, Spinnaker and Google, and how you, what was the, the, the founding story of, uh, MapR?
- ▶ 8:25 M.C. Srivas And that's what started off from Google trying to build.
- ▶ 9:59 M.C. Srivas I, I did Bigtable in Google, and, uh, actually to, somebody put a slide on NoSQL, so I was saying, well, well, that's really not the history, but,
- ▶ 30:31 unnamed speaker Um, you were at Google before, and a lot of this industry was created by, uh, Google releasing some, uh, white papers on how they do things, and people catching up with it. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:21 M.C. Srivas Google now is almost scary how it knows everything is going on with me.
The Acceleration of Innovation in Big Data w/ Stefan Groschupf, Datameer
- ▶ 1:16 Stefan Groschupf That's why we looked into the Google papers and implemented MapReduce and the HDFS, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 2:27 Stefan Groschupf Uh, VP of the future at Google or something like that.
Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin
- ▶ 9:49 Jeremy Achin Since there's some variations of it you can go, you can Google, and you can find a lot of literature out there, but this is probably one of the best, um, examples.
Machine Learning in Production with Josh Bloom, Co-founder Wise.io
- ▶ 10:52 Josh Bloom Um, I think some of those lessons of data science are echoed, uh, in a very scary way, uh, in the new paper by Google, uh, who titled this, uh, Machine Learning, the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.
- ▶ 15:33 Josh Bloom So Google does this, obviously, with Gmail.
- ▶ 16:07 Josh Bloom You might have remembered Gmail getting very excited about the fact they're using deep learning now to get better spam filters, and they talked about their accuracy rates, and then a couple of days later, Linus Torvalds wound up putting…
- ▶ 16:33 Josh Bloom So Google pissed off Linus Torvalds because their machine learning wasn't perfect. 2 times in the scene
Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 18:19 Ramana Rao Our first step was really to send them off to Omniture or to Site Catalyst, Adobe Site Catalyst, or Google Analytics, where most of our customers want the data.
Oren Falkowitz, Area 1 Security // The Future of Cybersecurity (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:19 Oren Falkowitz Maybe, you know, eight or nine years since Google published the Bigtable paper and the MapReduce paper and some of those early big data papers which have spawned, you know, this community and all the great technological revolution, now…
- ▶ 11:43 Oren Falkowitz So what we've been able to do is capture the entire Internet, right, in a way that maybe you would think Google or others do, right, and to do that for a very specific sort of security purpose.
- ▶ 16:03 Oren Falkowitz The second is, you know, that's only possible because some of the advances that have happened in the data infrastructure over the last, you know, you know, I'd say starting when the Google papers were published, but probably commercialized… 2 times in the scene
Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 9:15 Anthony Deighton And this may be a little counterintuitive since we're asking about, we're thinking about visual analytics, and analytics is really about aggregation, right, and charts and graphs, ah, but if Google has trained, ah, everyone in this room,…
Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:53 Lukas Biewald And, and I was, um, playing with Google Translate, and the results seem, um, they seem reasonably accurate to me.
Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:55 Anand Sanwal What's Google doing next?
Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:42 Spencer Kimball Luckily, um, we were bored with our jobs enough to decide to actually start a company around it, and we raised money recently from Benchmark and Google and Sequoia and Firstmark.
- ▶ 1:53 Spencer Kimball Ultimately, what people do is they shard the databases, and I ran into this, like, really head first, like, into a brick wall when I got to Google in 2002, and they were using sharded MySQL in order to run their AdWords backend, and they… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 Spencer Kimball Ultimately, what people do is they shard the databases, and I ran into this, like, really head first, like, into a brick wall when I got to Google in 2002, and they were using sharded MySQL in order to run their AdWords backend, and they…
- ▶ 5:34 Spencer Kimball Hosted services like DynamoDB, Amazon's Aurora, Google's cloud storage, um, the problem with these is you've got vendor lock-in, and they're all proprietary, so when you actually do want to switch off it because you've become Dropbox or… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:05 Spencer Kimball Leave that to the AWS people, leave that to Google's cloud people, um, you shouldn't have to notice.
- ▶ 9:06 Spencer Kimball It's what Google's built in this spanner and actually had in Megastore as well.
- ▶ 9:06 Spencer Kimball It's what Google's built in this spanner and actually had in Megastore as well.
- ▶ 12:45 Spencer Kimball This is what, uh, Big Table used, HBase uses, and also some of Google's newer architectures like Megastore and, um, uh, Spanner. 2 times in the scene
Jake Porway, DataKind // Data For The Greater Good (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 9:51 Jake Porway So of course you might imagine, you know, Google Maps and satellite imagery are pretty good at spotting thatched roofs versus iron roofs.
- ▶ 14:43 Jake Porway It goes and runs over Google Images, and it finds all the swimming pools, right?
- ▶ 14:47 Jake Porway But then he goes one step further, and he actually hooks it up to Google Street View,
David Luan, Dextro // Real-World Video Understanding (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 9:56 David Luan So for example, a lot of the large scale visual classification work that was done, ah, and a lot of landmark results were on ImageNet, which were basically created by going to Google Image Search, ah, and searching for, for example, laptop…
Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:29 Emil Eifrem And that one innovation, that tiny little thing that these guys did, the conceptual thing, but also building that, that entire technology stack that allowed it to do that, created Google, right? 2 times in the scene
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:01 Bob Muglia Um, in your own virtual machine on AWS, or Amazon, or Google.
Scott Crouch and EJ Bensing, Mark43 // Reimagining Police Software (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 17:19 Scott Crouch I mean, you see them using Chrome and stuff like that.
Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 13:08 Ryan Smith Because you're seeing people leave Google with a hundred million dollar comp packages to go somewhere else, and obviously not the cash.
- ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker Um, so I guess your, your brother was a pretty high level engineer at, at Google, and then you got him to, to come home. 4 times in the scene
Ben Medlock, SwiftKey // Building a Better Keyboard // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:23 Ben Medlock And this is just a arbitrary picture that I pulled off Google Images of a neural net.
- ▶ 11:29 Ben Medlock Google published a paper in which they show that if you have a lot of data, a very simple method for smoothing language models actually works incredibly well.
Paul Dix, InfluxDB // Open-Source Time Series Database // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:33 Zach Weinberg Uh, we ended up selling it to Google in June of 2010. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:01 Zach Weinberg We, we've raised about a hundred and thirty eight million dollars from, from Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:57 Zach Weinberg We were, when Google bought our last business, we were about 55, so we kind of knew some mistakes not to make.
Mark Kaganovich, SolveBio // Data Infrastructure For Genomics // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 20:02 Mark Kaganovich I kind of analogy that I like to make is, you know, if the, if the human genome was quote unquote mapped in 2000, I think there's kind of one still needs to make the Google Maps of that, and then one after that we would need to make the…
Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:41 Ron Gutman You know, there are more than a 100,000 health apps on, ah, on Google Play and in the App Store of Apple,
- ▶ 22:39 Ron Gutman To Google and to any other website that you went to.
Chris Wiggins, NY Times // Data Science at The New York Times (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 0:33 Chris Wiggins I'd been putting off taking a sabbatical for a long time, and then, um, in spring of 20 13, I decided I was gonna take a sabbatical, so I cast a really wide net, and I was talking to Google, and Facebook, and startups, and, ah, SCC, and… 2 times in the scene