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THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3

By Lenore Bickerstaff · 4 parts · 14 h 23 min · English

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Stanford, Cambridge, Mountain View and London, 1994 to 2025. Two graduate students build a program that ranks web pages by who links to them, and it works so well that the hard problem stops being relevance and becomes machinery: how to copy the web onto cheap computers that keep breaking. A chess prodigy turned games programmer takes a doctorate in memory before founding a London laboratory to teach programs to play. A metallurgy graduate raised in Madras arrives to argue for a browser nobody inside the company wants. This is an account of three engineering projects — an index, a client, and a learning system — that turned out to be one project, told from inside the problems as they were posed. Covers Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, Google, and DeepMind.

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  1. Part 01

    3:32:42

  2. Part 02

    3:36:37

  3. Part 03

    3:31:57

  4. Part 04

    3:41:14

Books in this series

  1. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 1

    4 parts · 17 h 19 min

  2. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 36 min

  3. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 23 min

  4. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 1 min

  5. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 43 min

  6. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 6

    4 parts · 16 h 52 min