Quite a bit of software engineering is about communication, working with others, etc. So, I didn't explicitly say that, but for clarity: being good at working in a team, discussing approaches with others, motivating people about why something is important, etc. are all important.
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Building Systems for ML: Storage, Compilers, and IR Design
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storage systems, compilers, … all will be useful. A talk I gave at Stanford a while back has some material on this (although focuses on building systems in the context of more traditional IR systems rather than ML systems).
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Software Engineering Skills Essential for ML Systems Development
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I think there's a lot of benefit in general software engineering and computer systems skills for people doing ML engineering. ML systems are often part of a larger system, so understanding good SW engineering practices, networking, performance engineering, OSes, …
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Tech Giant’s Early International Engineering Office Expansion Strategy
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I remember when we were opening our first engineering offices outside of Mountain View ages ago. We decided on NY, Zurich and Tokyo among the first few, which was like the top 3 most expensive locations in the world at the time (circa 2003/2004). Love these locations, though!
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Bigtable handles 6 billion requests per second at peak
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Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. "Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "
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Waymo autonomous driving safer during daytime operations
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Daytime is waymo convenient than cruising around at night?
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Google Pixel 7 Clear Calling Feature Reduces Background Noise
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Clear Calling feature on Pixel 7 eliminates background noise for clearer phone calls. https://
fagenwasanni.com/ai/the-google-
pixel-7-and-pixel-7-pro-introduce-clear-calling-feature/196820/
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PaLM Language Model Paper Published at JMLR
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The PaLM language model paper is now officially published at JMLR. https://
jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-
1144.html
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Pursuing Ambitious Long-term Goals in AI Development
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Sometimes it's worth tackling ambitious things that take a while..
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Waymo Safety Report: Analysis of Autonomous Vehicle Incidents
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The technical report from the page above is worth reading: https://
storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/
files/documents/safety/SafetyPerformanceofWaymoROat1Mmiles.pdf
… Pages 11 to 13 have a detailed description of each of the 20 incidents (spoiler: "Human drivers violated road rules and/or behaved dangerously in every vehicle-to-vehicle event").