Oct 20 2006

I m feeling lucky

Published by reshmac at 12:50 pm under General, Technology

google tshirt

Just came home after attending the Google tech talk in school and can’t wait to put down my experience! yes I m feeling lucky as I won the lucky gift from them; a super smart Google bag and a cool Google Tshirt :) . I must say this was one of the best tech talks I have ever attended. The speaker Eric Flatt explained few very interesting algorithms used for Google searching, loved the concept of considering each document as a vector and then finding cosine(vector dot product) to get the closely matching results. I regret for not taking Algorithms in first semester of MS, obviously I will be taking it in Fall 2007.

The best thing about the event was, there was a young guy roaming around in the hall with beard, wearing a crumpled Tshirt. Later Eric introduced him to the audience saying he works in the search (engine) team of Google and was a part of the recruitment program. Obviously when the guy started talking I came to know how smart he was, now I know how a true geek dresses like. In the question answer round a guy asked a very bold question (we had the same discussion in car on the way back home) that other than advertisements where does Google earn their revenue from. Eric gave a quick answer that advertisements itself earn enough(he meant unimaginable) revenue and ofcourse not to forget the Google Tshirts which are the coolest thing around campus these days :) .

Diwali Ligts

BTW we have a diwali puja in school tomorrow evening, will post the pics soon. Happy Diwali to everybody!

7 responses so far

7 Responses to “I m feeling lucky”

  1. # Manason 20 Oct 2006 at 9:27 pm

    I’m sure there are more t-shirts in store for you at the Googleplex when you join. :-) And yes, advertising dollars are big.

  2. # The Blog of Flatt » Blog Archive » I’ve never been blogged before.on 22 Oct 2006 at 6:36 pm

    [...] We had a really good time, I was so excited to see what’s happened to Northeastern. What a change to the campus, and what a change to the department. Well over 100 attendees, with several interesting questions. I look forward to going back in the spring for the next recruiting drive. Found this post about us (thanks to Google Web Alerts). [...]

  3. # reshmacon 24 Oct 2006 at 5:20 am

    I am so glad, the man himself linked my blog! Thank you Google web alerts. :) .
    Do visit him : http://www.theflatts.com/blog/?p=11

  4. # reshmacon 24 Oct 2006 at 5:26 am

    Manas, yes I checked out their online store, its great, two comments from Google employees :) :) .

  5. # Manishon 24 Oct 2006 at 8:52 am

    how r u reshma??? :)

  6. # Melodyon 24 Oct 2006 at 11:21 am

    Heya Ms. R C, happy Diwali to you & yours! May the new year be a blessed one :)

  7. # reshmacon 24 Oct 2006 at 12:55 pm

    Manish, Hiyo..I am good. Long time no see. Do visit often :)

    Melody, Happy diwali to you too :) . Have fun!

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