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Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by Izikiel43 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:08PM (#43577625)
Great point, I was thinking more on the Transformer architecture, but I stand corrected.

Google started similarly with PageRank as far as I remember.

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Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by musicale on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:03PM (#43577926)
Grad students, but yeah. CUDA was also basically invented by a grad student.

Many undergrad examples as well in the web era, from Excite to Facebook to Snapchat.

(Note the unanticipated consequences aren't always good.)

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