Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon...
by joshuamorton on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:31AM
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(also @google)
Scale makes it easy to have an outsized impact.
Consider that a single CPU core costs ~10$/yr in electricity, and that google has a really big computer[1]. The questions are then "how many CPUs does google have", "what percentage of those can any given change affect", and "how many such changes can one engineer make in a year?"
Scale makes it easy to have an outsized impact.
Consider that a single CPU core costs ~10$/yr in electricity, and that google has a really big computer[1]. The questions are then "how many CPUs does google have", "what percentage of those can any given change affect", and "how many such changes can one engineer make in a year?"
And that's just one type of potential change.
[1]: http://www.clickhole.com/article/future-now-google-has-confi...