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Google I/O 2024: Day 1 Photos
Photos from Day 1 of Google I/O 2024. View Gallery – Part 1. View Gallery – Part 2. View Gallery…
At Google I/O 2024 This Week
We'll be at Google I/O 2024 this week in person in Mountain View!
A Trivial Few-Liner Key-Value Store Benchmark Experiment For Digital Twin Storage
As we explore porting some of our previous queue-based architectures over to centralized key-value stores that provide longitudinal history and…
WashPost: For Marjorie Taylor Greene, getting Booed By The House Is No Disincentive
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of Marjorie Taylor Greene in his latest piece. Read…
Google I/O 2024: Next Week
If you're at Google I/O 2024 next week in Mountain View, make sure to say hello!
Big Data Big Talks: A Discussion Around GDELT And The Case For Monitoring Global Unrest
An incredible event today at the International Monetary Fund headquarters here in DC with some amazing speakers from the IMF…
WashPost: Why Is The Simplest Explanation of Campus Protests So Hard To Accept?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines the campus protests. Read The Full Article.
Using Digital Twins To Power Self-Monitoring & Self-Healing Infrastructure
Running massive global production systems and pushing the very boundaries of the possible requires bringing together myriad immense, complex and…
The Complexities Of AI-Driven Analytic Workflows & Creating A Live Digital Twin Of Petabytes Of Video, Metadata & Annotation Files
Like other object-based storage systems, GCS has immensely powerful qualities, including effectively infinite capacity, strong resilience and considerable performance. Any…
WashPost: Noem's Dog-Killing Isn’t Popular, Though Trump Supporters Are Divided
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Kristi Noem. Read The Full Article.
When Facebook Is the Internet: The Role of Social Media in Ethnic Conflict
This paper investigates whether social media access is associated with increased probability or intensity of ethnic conflict in Myanmar. In…
A Sampling Of Global Television News Coverage Of The Campus Gaza Protests
Below is a selection of a few clips from Russian and Iranian television news coverage of the campus Gaza protests….
Generative AI Experiments: Stay Tuned For A Wealth Of Coming Experiments
Stay tuned for a flurry of generative AI experiments coming the next two months as we explore various potential applications,…
Google I/O 2024: Next Month
If you're at Google I/O 2024 next month in Mountain View, make sure to say hello!
WashPost: How The Biden Impeachment Push Echoes Trump's Effort To Retain Power
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of the Biden impeachment push. Read The Full Article.
Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated VM Health Assessment
As we continue to explore the use of generative AI fully autonomous agents to manage our global fleet of VMs, we've…
Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated Log Diagnosis & VM Healing – "Martian Source" Error
As we continue to explore the use of generative AI fully autonomous agents managing our global fleet of VMs, around…
Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Comparing Google Translate, GPT-4, Gemini Ultra & Gemini Pro 1.5 For Trilingual Translation
Continuing our comparisons of multilingual machine translation of global television news, how do Google Translate, GPT-4, Gemini Ultra & Gemini Pro…
Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Correcting Mixed Transliterations In LSM Transcription Via LSM+LLM – Comparing GPT-4 & Gemini
Yesterday we explored LLM correction of mixed script/transliterated LSM transcripts. In that experiment we used GPT-4 for our transcript normalization…
Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: Correcting Mixed Transliterations In LSM Transcription Via LSM+LLM
Last week we explored how Large Speech Model (LSM) transcriptions can blend script and transliterated text, rendering the resulting transcripts…
Generative AI Autonomous Agent Experiments: Automated Log Diagnosis & VM Healing – Fix "No Space Left" Error
What might it look like to deploy Generative AI as a form of fully autonomous intelligent agent that monitors cloud…
Visualizing The Network Structure Of Multilingualism In 2.5 Million Hours Of Global Television News
Yesterday we unveiled a first glimpse at the linguistic landscape of the Internet Archive TV News Archive's 2.5-million-hour uncaptioned global…
A First Look At The Linguistic Geography Of The Internet Archive's TV News Archive: 2.5M Hours Spanning 159 Languages
We are tremendously excited to unveil today a first look at the linguistic geography of the Internet Archive's TV News…
Transcribing 2.5M Hours Of TV News: The Complicating Factors Of Transliteration/Romanization In LSM Transcription
Like their textual brethren, the Large Speech Models (LSM) that have become the dominant ASR (speech transcription) technology can be…