I wonder if Jeff Dean facts [1] (I hope people remember the reference) will carry over to the new startup.

[1] https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts

«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.»

I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.

0000 in base pi. Oh Jeff.

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Those are all fake, part of an internal Google narrative that overstates individual contribution, and obscures the work of large engineering teams.

Here are some Jeff Dean well sourced facts:

- Already part of engineering of Google indexing systems that lacked basic checksums and ran on non-ECC hardware, allowing silent data corruption.

- One of the authors of LevelDB a database with so many documented crash-consistency, recovery, and data-loss weaknesses for years. Just check their Github project. LevelDB current tracker contains unresolved crash consistency, recovery and corruption reports going back almost 12 years on GitHub

- In AI engineering technical lead, let TensorFlow lose researcher mind share to PyTorch, and caused Google fragmented landscape across TensorFlow and JAX.

- Had the people at Google who invented the Transformer architecture, but failed, to turn that lead into the first dominant public LLM.

- As AI engineering and VP management let Google Brain and DeepMind remain duplicated and internally competitive for too long.

- Let Noam Shazeer leave and then spent heavily to bring him back with nothing to show for.

- Part of Technical VP leadership who had Bard rushed to launch with factual errors in Google own promotional material.

- The first Gemini demonstration overstated how real-time and interactive the system actually was, being basically a fake.

- Part of the VP and AI technical leadership who had Google AI Overviews launched with weak source quality controls and repeated satire and low-quality web content as factual advice.

- Part of teams that launched AlphaChip performance claims that were difficult for outside researchers to reproduce and remain technically disputed.

- Jeff Dean public explanation of Gebru departure was contested and damaged confidence in Google scientific governance.

- Jeff Dean was part of the team at Google that removed or marginalized prominent internal AI ethics critics shortly before many of their warnings became product problems.

- Jeff Dean was one of the managers behind Project Dragonfly supporting censorship.

- Jeff Dean is part of the VP technical leadership approving Project Nimbus supporting an ongoing genocide.

I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.

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You sound like you're quite jealous of him.

Actually the list is technically accurate. So maybe it's sour grapes, but it's correct sour grapes.

I had never heard of many of these, was surprised, went to research, and so far, the list seems correct.

not sure how you got that from a long list of criticisms