So often, when I’m searching on Google, I want to give it some context. For instance, I’m looking for pages about Django (the Python-based web framework). They’ll probably mention ‘python’, ‘web’, ‘database’ and ‘programming’. I could feed in this query: Django python web database programming But I’d actually get a very restricted set of results […]
I was sitting in a sun-warmed pizza restaurant in London last week talking about deep learning libraries. Everyone had their favourites. I was betting on TensorFlow, the new kid in town released by Google in late 2015. In response, a Torch fan pointed out that Google may invest in building up TensorFlow internally, but there’s no reason for […]
Why does the google desktop search suck so much? It’s the only google product I hate. It regularly fails to find things that definitely do exist, its index doesn’t update very fast so it’s continually telling me that files that it’s produced for me in the search results don’t exist, it doesn’t seem to do […]
Google is surely now in a position where I just log into google on a public terminal and it automatically logs me into whatever sits require logins, tracks my online presence, prefetches things I’m likely to need (having saved them on a server farm somewhere local to me) and allows me to sync all this […]
I didn’t buy any Google shares because I don’t have much money to risk, but I think I would have if I had. I have faith in Google, that goes beyond the reasoned.Google motto–Never settle for the bestFocus on the user and all else will followIt’s best to do one thing really, really wellFast is […]
In the past, running a Premortem has been the single most helpful exercise I’ve found for dealing with complex, risky projects. This is the core idea, but there’s a little more to it. I’m not joking when I say that a premortem refocused the hardest death-march I’ve been on, and another premortem was a key […]
What if I suggested that you finish each day with nothing left on your todo list? This is the only rule of Todo Zero. You might find yourself biting back some choice words. This sounds like unhelpful advice from someone with a much simpler life than yours. Not so fast. Picture a world-class juggler with […]
Summary: applied machine learning expert (Oxford/Harvard/Princeton); team builder; and startup co-founder/CTO (tens of millions of users, Fortune 50 clients). Greg Detre co-founded Memrise.com with Ed Cooke, blending the art and science of memory to power incredibly effective, playful learning experiences. Memrise is now the second-largest language learning app in the world, and has helped 40m people learn […]
I code compulsively and with great delight. Writing software is like weaving a magical spell, something out of nothing. I’ve worked on a mix of consumer, web, scientific and open source software projects. Here are a few. Repositories I’m gregdetre on GitHub (currently all hidden in private repositories). My most recent open source work was produced […]
Instapaper – combine this with the Instachrome extension, and whenever I see a webpage I want to read later, it’ll be waiting with me as I wait for a train Light – it’s bright! No more torches. If you lived in Hanborough, you’d need this too. Trainline – faster than my laptop and/or a speeding […]
Greg Detre 