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Re:Loon’s final flight by wutbrodo on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:48AM (#25869112)
Huh, I used to work next to the Brain team, didn't realize that they started out as Google X.

Per their wiki article:

> Astro Teller has said that Google Brain paid for the entire cost of Google X

even assuming that Waymo has zero expected future profitability.

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Re:Loon’s final flight by jeffbee on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:52AM (#25869140)
It's kinda weird to think of brain as an X project. DistBelief was developed out in the open in the main source code repo by people you think of as googlers, like Jeff. So what makes it "X"?
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Re:Loon’s final flight by Judgmentality on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:01AM (#25869198)
A need to justify X's existence?
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Re:Loon’s final flight by jeffbee on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:13AM (#25869268)
Or Jeff just wanted it that way.

My own personal image of X was that if you had to drive to some old Air Force base to see it, it was X. Since brain was software, it doesn’t fit the model.

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