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As a simple exercise, I wanted to compare what Google knows about my trip, versus what the phone company knows. Here’s a reconstruction of a day, Oct 19, 2020, going from home to my universit…

Suppose that you give me two ASCII strings having the same number of characters. I wish to compute efficiently the number of matching characters (same position, same character). E.g., the strings ‘012c’ and ‘021c’ have two matching characters (‘0’ and ‘c’).…

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These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them

Citizen would deploy private security forces at the request of app users, according to documents and sources.

Posted by Siamak Shakeri, Staff Software Engineer and Oshin Agarwal, Research Intern, Google Research Large pre-trained natural language processing...

A few weeks ago, Twitter use @McgarrDana tweeted:
Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.
And she’s right! If what you built isn’t accessible, it’s not complete.
There’s no such thing as a website or…

How Israeli population cartography incorporated Palestinians through the very act of erasing them.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen and had many conversations about Hot Tub streams, and we want to address it candidly. The content brings up questions that are complex with few easy, clear answers. We’re approaching it thoughtfully and respectfully, which…

According to the estimation, there are at least six times more birds on the planet than people. The most common species are house sparrows and European starlings.

Let's talk about why cryptocurrency is the single factor that created the ransomware plague that is ravaging our healthcare system and public infrastructure. (1/) 🧵