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This piece of novelty headwear is often given to new employees on their first day at Google.
What is the Noogler Hat?
Officially spun out in 2017, this Alphabet subsidiary is focused on the commercialization of self-driving technology.
What is Waymo?
This eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights is celebrated by lighting one additional candle on the menorah each night.
What is Hanukkah?
This is the term for when a large language model generates believable but factually incorrect or nonsensical information.
What is Hallucination?
This detailed document outlines schedule and plans of a trip.
What is an Itinerary?
This co-founder of Google served as the first CEO of the newly formed Alphabet from 2015 to 2019.
Who is Larry Page?
Before becoming an Alphabet "Other Bet" focused on rural internet access, this company was originally acquired by Google in 2010 to run a fiber-optic cable network.
What is Google Fiber (or Fiber)?
This alliterative nickname for a famous Christmas character literally translates from Dutch as "Christ-child" and is used in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Who is Kris Kringle?
This category of machine learning uses data where the output labels are not provided, forcing the model to find structure and patterns on its own.
What is Unsupervised Learning?
Getting ready to tie the knot? You might want the help of this preparatory profession.
What is a Wedding Planner?
Colorful statues of the mascot for this Google product can be see throughout the Mountain View campus
What is Android?
This life sciences company, spun out of Google X in 2015, focuses on making the evidence-based, proactive transition from sick care to healthcare.
What is Verily?
This Hindu "Festival of Colors," typically celebrated in the spring, involves playful chases and covering friends with colorful powders called gulal.
What is Holi?
This is the common name for Google's custom-built ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) designed specifically to accelerate machine learning workloads.
What is a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)?
The popular HBO featuring patriarch Logan Roy highlighted the critical need for this organizational strategy.
What is a Succession Plan?
Located at the original Googleplex, this full-sized, skeletal replica of a flying prehistoric animal is named "Stan."
What is a T-Rex (or Tyrannosaurus Rex)?
This life sciences company, spun out of Google X in 2015, focuses on making the evidence-based, proactive transition from sick care to healthcare.
What is Verily?
Celebrated for a week beginning on December 26th, the seven principles of this African-American holiday are called Nguzo Saba.
What is Kwanzaa?
Before LLMs, Google created this highly influential natural language processing technique which shares its first initial with Bard.
What is BERT?
This planning method is an iterative approach that breaks down large projects into smaller, fixed-length phases called sprints.
What is Agile?
The first two employees who were not the co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were Craig Silverstein (Employee #3) and this person (Employee #4), who later became CEO of Yahoo!
Who is Marissa Mayer?
This former NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development with an alliterative name was the highly-publicized CEO who led the urban development "Other Bet," Sidewalk Labs, from its inception to its shutdown.
Who is Dan Doctoroff?
This Muslim holiday marks the end of Ramadan, and its name literally translates from Arabic as the "Festival of Breaking the Fast."
What is Eid(or Eid al-Fitr)?
Named for the person widely considered the "father of computer science" this famous conceptual test, proposed in 1950, assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?
It translates a company's strategy into actionable goals, detailing budgets and allocating financial and personnel resources for the calendar year.
What is an Annual Operating Plan (or AOP)?