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A small study to observe the universality in Google search query durations

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decision-time-universality

A small study to observe the universality in Google search query durations.

This script makes Google search queries of randomly chosen words and records their durations into a file.

Usage

  • Edit duration.py to set the number of words.
  • Run it via python googledecisionduration.py
  • After it finishes you can plot the graph via python duration_plot.py

References

Results and the definition of universality can be seen in this paper:

Levent Sagun, Thomas Trogdon, Yann LeCun, Universal halting times in optimization and machine learning