Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!
Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.
(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)
🚨 BREAKING: Japan's 2-year and 5-year bond yields just hit their highest levels in 31 years.
The 2-year is at 1.579% and the 5-year at 2.098%.
Both were near zero just two years ago.
Japan's bond market crisis keeps getting worse.
Republicans paid $40 MILLION of your tax dollars to Morocco to invade Spain.
And then they all pretended like borders matter and clutched their pearls like invasions are offensive.
R’s and D’s are the same and the Uniparty has put us in $40 T in debt and Americans LAST.
The Ceuta invasion is being coordinated by Facebook groups. @finkd
The flagship group description: "Ceuta by every route #hraga_ceuta — Migration is an idea, and the idea does not die."
There are countless posts soliciting people to go with others. This is in clear violation of the Facebook ToS that prohibits content "offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling" or content that asks for "asks for human smuggling services."
The groups that must be banned are:
• Hraga Ceuta 🚢 — 124,639 · 231/day → /groups/749906839376195/
• Hraga Ceuta 🇪🇸 — 36,272 · 186/day → /groups/1302645485013793/
• [Immigration to] ceuta — 31,272 · 31/day → /groups/2161047214157232/
• Haraga_ceuta — 22,382 · 81/day → /groups/2250468988743746/
• Haraga Ceuta sabta 2024/2025 — 15,860 · 12/day → /groups/1370413077068987/
I am an Indian and I say this outright:- China needs to ban Indians(and Pakistanis- actually the entire subcontinent) from entering China. They're nothing but a nuisance - rude, arrogant and self centered.
The CCP really needs to understand this hard. Do not entertain Indians, do not do business with Indians. Make it a law and proclaim it on national Television.
A very very few decent indians(like me) will suffer but it is what it is.
BREAKING: Iran launches a surprise attack in a wave of ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East, with a direct hit reported on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan just a few minutes ago.
This breaks the 5-consecutive-night pause of strikes and breaks the temporary ceasefire.
A US official confirms IRGC launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on US forces.