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But they must surely be doing something fancier than this naive-bayes-style model, otherwise they'd have no use for a roomful of supercomputers.


Well, naïve Bayesian inference is supercomputer-level when you use it on a huge universe of data.

As Peter Norvig often points out, these kind of tasks are highly data dependent. The supercomputers are probably more used for data access as for raw computation. I can totally imagine Peter writing a forty-line Python app that runs on Google's infrastructure that does about as well.




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