Microsoft, every mention

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▶ 15:40 Yann LeCun This is both for, you know, Apple, Android, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
▶ 29:28 Yann LeCun So, uh, it was, it was, it was, it was quicker, it was picked up very quickly by, you know, Google, IBM, Facebook, et cetera, uh, Microsoft, uh, in, in the space of a few months, whereas 2 times in the scene
▶ 30:20 Yann LeCun Right, ok, so I used to work at Bell Labs and NEC and, you know, a couple other, and I had friends at IBM and Microsoft Research and things like this, so I know a bit about industry or, uh, industry research.

▶ 12:53 Mike Olson You can think of us in the way that you think of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM DB II.
▶ 13:22 Mike Olson This is the Microsoft strategy expressly.
▶ 29:12 Mike Olson If you sort of add up all of the relational database spending that happens, call it thirty billion dollars a year, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, in that order, and then, you know, there's a bunch of other players that kind of don't matter, right?

▶ 2:49 Michael Rubenstein And a seller could be someone like Microsoft, right? 2 times in the scene
▶ 7:15 Catherine Williams In terms of tools at that time, um, maybe because our data was a little bit rigid, we used a lot of Bayesian math, Bayesian probability, um, we still had a little bit of a business intelligence focus at that time, so Excel was still in…

▶ 1:19 Mike Abbott I then went up to Microsoft 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:21 Mike Abbott And, ah, helped write the initial version of AppCache, their DHT.
▶ 1:26 Mike Abbott And, ah, after getting that out, became the first GM of what's now Azure.

▶ 12:22 Renaud Laplanche Um, our friends at Microsoft have, um, paid us a lot of money to say that.

▶ 9:22 Stephen Purpura Which, the, the, the leader of that team came from Bing, where he was the architect for what's called the Cosmos system, which is the engine that runs all of, of Bing, and also Microsoft's ad network.
▶ 9:22 Stephen Purpura Which, the, the, the leader of that team came from Bing, where he was the architect for what's called the Cosmos system, which is the engine that runs all of, of Bing, and also Microsoft's ad network. 2 times in the scene
▶ 12:28 Stephen Purpura It's good enough, in fact, that if you were a data scientist working at LinkedIn or on Bing, you might stop.

▶ 19:47 Ashish Thusoo So Amazon was the dominant player, and now, ah, you know, Azure, Google, and all these things are cropping up.

▶ 6:45 Jake Klamka We've got about 15 at Facebook, half a dozen at Yammer, Microsoft, half a dozen at Square, two at Airbnb, a number, all these other companies have multiple fellows working at them.

▶ 20:38 Amit Bendov It doesn't, you could do it with Excel, you could do it with pen and paper.

▶ 15:32 Michael Schmidt So we're on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
▶ 18:33 Michael Schmidt Excel, MATLAB, Mathematica, whether SPSS, whatever software you use.
▶ 22:41 Michael Schmidt Like, you can just do this in Excel.

▶ 4:44 Sandy Steier And so, Excel served that purpose for many years. 2 times in the scene
▶ 5:55 Sandy Steier It never takes weeks to do something in Excel, per se. 4 times in the scene
▶ 10:31 Sandy Steier A thousand rows of data, you take Excel, you stick it in Excel, you do whatever you need to do. 3 times in the scene
▶ 13:19 Sandy Steier If a self-service, something that a user could just, you know, pull out their laptop and do whatever, if there were no laptops in the early, early eighties, but, you know, somebody could just pull up a computer and do the thing just in… 2 times in the scene
▶ 17:47 Owen Simpson When I uploaded all the new, again, 500 row tables, now we're doing things that are, you know, perfectly fine in Excel, ah, but we can quickly actually bring this in with the data we already have. 2 times in the scene

▶ 19:19 Joe Reisinger Um, so this should be a, this is supposed to be a slide of, like, you know, hey, premise is awesome, like, come visit our website, but then the new, the new PowerPoint never made it, so, uh, you get my Twitter account again.
▶ 24:46 Matt Turck Because you use Excel?

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