SCOUT· 67%57m·2026-08-01·TechnologyJeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
In 2001, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require doubling Google’s server fleet. That one…
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