The Battle of Induction: A blog about us and our competition.
We don’t often talk about our competitors, but we think it’s high time for a little more transparency on the topic. We’d like to clear up any misconceptions that exist about our technology, as well as provide some insight into what sets us apart from the competition.
So what is induction? Well, there are two types of cooking surfaces used in today’s kitchens: gas and electric. Gas heats up using flames directly beneath the cookware, while electric heats up using the resistance generated by a heating element directly beneath the cookware. Induction heats up using an electromagnetic field between the cooking surface and the cookware.
This method has notable benefits: it can be turned on and off with lightning-fast precision, it’s very efficient (no wasted heat), and it’s much safer than gas or electric because there is no open flame or hot element. But induction requires a special kind of cookware, which means you need to check your existing pots and pans to see if they’re compatible with an induction appliance. You can do this with a simple magnet test– if a magnet sticks to your pot or pan, then it will work on an induction surface.
Now that you know what induction
The Battle of Induction: A blog about us and our competition.
We are an electric car company. We are also in the business of selling electricity. We make electric cars, and we sell electricity to power them. But we’re not a utility, because we don’t just sell the electricity – we sell the cars that use it, so you can’t buy our electricity unless you buy our cars. And there are lots of reasons why you should do that – they’re beautiful, they’re fast, they have great handling and they use no gas at all.
This sounds like an amazing business model – you get to write your own rules! If you don’t like the price of gas, raise it! If you want to charge more for a better car, go for it! You can even change the laws of physics if you really want to. But when we first started thinking about this kind of business model, some people thought it would never work. They thought a company would never be able to get away with selling its customers something that cost more than what they could get from anyone else.
They were wrong – but so were we.
What is “Induction”?
Induction is a machine-learning tool for Android developers. It allows you to easily add machine learning capabilities to your apps, with little-to-no code.
Induction uses deep learning to analyze anonymized app data, to detect and predict user behaviors.
What is “deep learning”?
Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technique that can be used to analyze large amounts of heterogeneous data. It involves training artificial neural networks on lots of data and then getting them to make inferences about new situations.
How does Induction work?
Induction analyzes anonymized app data in the cloud, and returns predictions in the form of simple code snippets. These snippets are automatically integrated into your app’s codebase by our Gradle plugin, which you can install from JCenter.
I’m trying to open a discussion about sustainability, technology and business. My hope is that this will lead to the development of real solutions for businesses and society. This blog will cover my current work in sustainable technology development, as well as the work of our competition.
I have recently been invited to speak at a conference on the subject of induction. At first I thought perhaps that they had confused me with a much younger, more talented and altogether better-looking person who happens to share my name. But after a short period of reflection it occurred to me that nothing could be further from the truth. After all, who better to speak about induction than a person whose own career has been characterized by one long series of inductive failures?
The fact is that the world of industrial research is largely populated by people who were once young and full of promise, but whose youthful ambition has since been defrauded by the sordid realities of life in the laboratory. Our dreams are now as dust, our hopes and aspirations have been swept away by the harsh winds of experience; our youth has become submerged beneath a sea of technical obstacles and practical difficulties; our achievements have come to naught; our dreams have been shattered.
I think we are not as far behind them as most people think, but I’m afraid that our investors don’t realize that.
At Google, our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We are dedicated to improving the lives of as many people as possible through technology. Our users are at the heart of everything we do, and we want to make technology work for them, not the other way around.
We believe that technology should be accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. This means designing products with a wide range of users in mind. Our accessibility principles are:
Technology should do the hard work, so you don’t have to.
Technology should understand real-world context and change accordingly.
Technology should enhance your experience, not distract you from it.
Accessibility features should be easy to use and intuitive.
Google strives to make all of its products as accessible as possible for all of our users, including those with visual, hearing or cognitive disabilities. Accessibility is at the core of Google’s mission and values and we take pride in building innovative solutions to serve more people around the world. We know that there is always more work to be done in increasing accessibility for people with disabilities, but by incorporating accessibility into our product design process from the beginning we can create better products for our users with disabilities and for all users.