share, you know, a desire to regulate AI or an opposition. And so, um you know, when you look at say like the Bernie Sanders explanation for the data center moratorium, it is about all these things. It's about frontier risk and it's about labor and it's about theenvironment and it's about civil rights.
to do together, and are trying to create a society around that. Sanders , I thank you so much and thank Google and Googlers for the conversation.
And it was really, really embarrassing. Sanders . Yeah. So I was, like, I'm never doing that again.And I that's why I don't have an Olympic medal right now.
Yes, there we go. Sanderson. Brandon Sanderson level of, "and the magic system is the whole story." This weekend, he critted one of my stories and I ended it and I put, holy crap, I didn't realize I had that many problems.
group of of farmers in Miss in Missouri they were trying to decide between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and at first when they told me that I was a little bit surprised and then Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders didnever did not strike me at the time as the same sort of person but what they were respond responding to in retrospect
nonetheless he played The Outsider to her Insider and she and he and Bernie Sanders all gave the same theme and that theme is the game is rigged against youand the reason they gave that theme and the reason any politician says anything unless it's coming from their gut and I
brat about 6 months ago and he could have been Bernie Sanders except with regard to climate change and women's Reproductive Rightsand a bunch of other but on the issues of crony capitalism he is where a lot of
Michael: Very cool. Frank: And people could download it from the iTunes store for free. sanders and all of that. Not enough to cover 16 hundred square mile area, but at least the routes that we needed taken care of on any given day, we had a plan for that.
So I'm now near the end of the talk and I'm going to talk a little bit about the way we're using deep learning. So Sander Dielman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Guelph in Belgium and is now at Google DeepMind in London-- he used a deep learning code to predict how GalaxyZoo, a citizen science project, classified nearby galaxy images.
And big designers were calling me. Jil Sander of Versace was getting a lot of big breaks in editorial. And so it was a risk.
welcome to Google uh somebody who is a historic figure in American law uh justice sander de o Conor was nominated to the court as the first woman on the Supreme Court in 1981 served until 1986 with with high distinction um since that
And it was pretty clear that, you know, after Barack Obama, it was gonna be Hillary Clinton, after Hillary Clinton, it was either gonna be Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders , Bernie Sanders had come in second in the primary, Joe Biden had been the Vice President. You often have a presumptive next nominee, who the party can look to for kind of leadership.
individual's personal character over their platform. You know, I've said this before I I don't really care if say like Bernie Sanders or AOC go home and they're a secret Nazi, but they go out and they vote for the right things. Like we're talking about You don't care?
It's so great to be here to talk about this work. As Sanders said, I'm Erika Nesvold. And I'm an astrophysicist, although these days I actually work in the video game industry as an astrophysics engineer for Universe Sandbox, which
walking has been thought of as this exploratory activity. Or Sanders , yeah. DANI S. BASSETT: Or Sanders , yeah.
Anyway, so in the new book, which may be called "The Best Little Boy in the World Gets Cranky," but I'm not really cranky. Bernie Sanders is cranky. He's a wonderful man, but he is cranky.
was indignation and the implied or explicit promise from Donald Trump and from Bernie Sanders that they would fundamentally change the system and they would make the system work once again for average working people or for Farmers or for a lot of people who have
Bernie Sanders has this hand gesture that he uses.
So Sanders is a little bit distracting with his hands.
Larry Sanders is an incredible interior defender.
Colonel Sanders had his chicken recipe.
Greg Sanders : Thanks for coming out. My name is Greg Sanders . I'm a tech writer here at Google and I'm also a fiction writer. And it's my privilege to introduce Jennifer Egan.
Greg Sanders : For coming out. Do you wanna briefly describe "Goon Squad" if you haven't had to do it a hundred times already?
Greg Sanders : I think it works really well. And there are stylistic differences also.
Greg Sanders : So, that's the second editorial layer is putting the rivets in a sense.
Greg Sanders : That might be good, that battle. That battle between the two is probably what brings it .
Greg Sanders : Conversational. Conversational.
Greg Sanders : Right. And the handwritten early drafts, does that slow down process help you creatively?
Greg Sanders : Right. Jennifer Egan: Now, people have pointed out that I could always cover the screen of the computer and write by hand, but I actually can't--. I have to admit I haven't tried that.
Greg Sanders : Yeah. I think it's a good thing, actually. I mean, for example, I use a manual typewriter. I type a lot of these up and I find that there's a more forceful
Greg Sanders : Right. Jennifer Egan: So, it's interesting how it works differently for each writer. And so much of the challenge for me, and I think really for everyone, is just finding out what
Greg Sanders : Right. Jennifer Egan: I figure if I don't know what I'm doing and I'm just gonna flail, let's do it faster. That's the only time. But generally, I find as I'm typing in changes, I'm thinking
Greg Sanders : Well, I was actually gonna ask that. That was one of my questions is, how do you think is, we've become so enmeshed in our relationship with our devices and technology
Greg Sanders : Right. We'll get to that.
Greg Sanders : We won't ask what kind.
Greg Sanders : Yeah. I mean, speaking about two-year olds and technology, there's the latter part of your novel projects us forward, I don't know, ten, fifteen years later. I'm
Greg Sanders : And there is a foreboding relationship with technology. I mean, there's two threads, or two elements. One is there's this kind of, people act as ads. I mean, they're
Greg Sanders : Yeah. And then there's also a section where there's this young couple that we meet earlier, much earlier in the novel. And then we see them in the future
Greg Sanders : Right, exactly.
Greg Sanders : Yeah. Jennifer Egan: I mean it's just thrilling to think about new forms and genres that become possible through technology. And to me, the novel, while many people feel that it's imperiled
Greg Sanders : Well, I think in some ways you are. I mean, you're pushing the envelope.
Greg Sanders : And--. Jennifer Egan: It could've been any slide.
Greg Sanders : It could've been, right, exactly. And narrated basically by a young woman.
Greg Sanders : A twelve-year old and she's writing about her autistic brother, or--?
Greg Sanders : Pauses in rock and roll. It's called "Great Rock and Roll Pauses." And I thought it was really great. And the thing is there's a narrative momentum in it. And
Greg Sanders : Right. Jennifer Egan: And then, when I looked into it further, I determined that I actually didn't have enough memory in my laptop to hold it. And it was expensive. So, I thought, "You
Greg Sanders : Yeah. She's taking a course in making slides and I think she quotes something from the class, "Add a graphic, get more traffic." Right? I mean, that sounds like something
Greg Sanders : Yeah, exactly. Word wall is a long haul.
Greg Sanders : So these kids are gonna be basically in this version of the future. These kids are just completely conversant in graphical representations of information. That was really
Greg Sanders : Yeah, there's a lot going on in that chapter. I thought it was really great. And I understand, tying into that, I've also heard you say you don't write about