Verily
Verily was officially created in this year
2015
A method to computationally estimate probability distributions, especially in Bayesian statistics, aka MCMC
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
FAANG (the Big 5) - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google - are the acronyms of five big tech companies. Before Netflix joined, the Big Four was called this.
GAFA
In the Harry Potter movies, Professor McGonagall can transform into this animal.
a cat
This person once got hit by a metal bar/pole attached to a truck and is now has platinum plate in their body
Steve
Verily began as a Google Moonshot project focused on monitoring blood glucose using these
Contact lenses
Process of achieving a very high accuracy for the training dataset, but poor accuracy in predicting a new dataset
Overfitting
This survival thriller holds the record for the most popular Netflix show of all time with over 1.65 billion hours streamed within the first month of its release.
Squid Game
Marvel’s Black Panther is set in this fictional country.
Wakanda
Chih-Ying loves traveling and has visited this country more than 10 times, sometimes only for 1 or 2 days.
Japan
Long before becoming the CEO of Verily, Andy Conrad got his PhD in this subject
Cell biology
In 1854, physician John Snow successfully isolated a single water pump as the source of this disease outbreak after overlapping a map with clusters of cases in London.
Cholera
Facebook was sued by this similar social networking site who won over $20 million and more than 1.2 million shares of stock
ConnectU
This Disney movie was released in 1937 and was the first ever full-length animated film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
This person was hiking Kilimanjaro in February 2020 right before the world shut down.
Graham
Vivian dressed up as this for the 2019 Verily All Hands
A dinosaur
This statistical hypothesis test was devised by the head brewer at Guinness beer factory in Dublin
Student's t-test
Netflix released this video in 2011 - their first original content which was 11 minutes long that test frame rates and how different streaming services handles different content
Example Show
Though there are many other Chris-es, these four Hollywood Chris were involved in production of Marvel or DC movies
Chris Pratt, Chris Pine, Chris Evans & Chris Hemsworth
This person was awarded 2 medals while working for the military in their home country.
Antonin
As Google X was transitioning to Verily, many different names were explored and this name was almost selected.
Open Bracket "["
This statistician was named one of The World’s 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine in 2009 after correctly predicting outcomes in 49/50 states in the 2008 US Presidential election
Nate Silver
New York Times reported in 2020 that Google pays Apple this amount to keep Google as the default option in iphone
$8-12 billion
Samuel Jackson who played over 100 featured films with iconic roles for over 50 years in the industry won his first Oscar in 94th Oscar ceremony (2022) in this category
Lifetime Achievement
Hamsa can be easily persuaded to do anything if she is promised a bowl of __ at the end.
Noodles