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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by ravitation on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:07PM (#13134321)
Compare Apple, a consumer electronics company, building a phone to Google, an ad tech company, building a self driving car.

One seems to leverage the core competencies of an organization better than the other... One seems closer to starting from 0...

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by weaksauce on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:49PM (#13134612)
I mean, google is not quite going from 0 to 1 there. it's a machine learning problem and google has some of the brightest machine learning people out there already working on search.
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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by Locke1689 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:42PM (#13134564)
That's just because you don't understand Google.

It was a ML company going from building ML for the internet to building ML for a car.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by blackguardx on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:55PM (#13134653)
Google hired the team that won the Darpa Grand Challenge.
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