Archive for the ‘Google’ tag
The Internet = A Cat
As reported in Slate (that I somehow originally missed), when Google X (their secret research team) passed 10 million video stills into an algorithm, the “silicon cortex” formed the image of a cat, pictured above.
Via: Slate (and Wired, at some point)
js Poetry
Some JavaScript poetry from today’s Google Doodle source code:
else if (!a.La && (!a.Ka && !a.ha && !a.Ma)
and…
Pa = "function" == typeof Ra ? Ra() : Ra;
Via: Google (make it easier to read using jsbeautifier.org)
Google Image Search x2
Google image search for “Google image search”…
Google’s Ngram Viewer
Today I found Google’s Ngram viewer and raw data sets. Above is the frequency of the words “Jeffrey” and “Jeff” in all of Google’s scanned books from 1800-2000.
The query is insanely fast, considering the data that the viewer must have to read through. Also of note, the frequency is normalized to the number of books published that year.
