We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data
When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.
All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.
Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.
Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.