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We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples. By establishing a correlation between sample quality and image classification accuracy, we show that our best generative…
The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month, 1 so I made some high-res die photos of the chip to celebrate. The ...
Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager. AWS…
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This report assesses the prevalence and magnitude of one form of wage theft—minimum wage violations (workers being paid at an effective hourly rate below the binding minimum wage)—in the 10 most populous U.S. states. We find that, in these states, 2.4 million workers lose $8 billion annually (an average of $3,300 per…
We’re excited to announce that Startup School (SUS) is relaunching today as a continuous program. This change will allow us to serve many more founders than the traditional annual course we’ve been running since 2017 and better support startup founders year-round. In addition to this change to continuous admissions…
Apple deserves the antitrust scrutiny that they’re getting for their anti-competitive App Store policies.
A non-comprehensive and opinionated guide to best monitor for programming
Here is my (extended) family tree: Everyone in the tree shares at least one common ancestor and at least one common descendant. This ...
A Five-Step Guide from the Developers You Sherlocked. It’s in Apple’s best interest to be proactive and tackle the antitrust problem itself rather than waiting for the government to step in. To help Tim Cook get ahead of the scrutiny, we’ve compiled some reasonable suggestions for Apple that don’t require government…
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable.
July 1, 2020: Post updated to take care that Amazon EFS increased file system minimum throughput, when burst credits are exhausted, to 1 MiB/s. I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system storing data within and…
What do nested transactions look like in an ACID environment? We explore the journey of a nested SQL transaction in CockroachDB in this post.
Bootstrap 5's very first alpha has arrived! We've been working hard for several months to refine the work we started in v4, and while we're feeling great about…
An updated generics design draft, and a translation tool for experimentation
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication
This is somewhat of a followup to my post on Lua integration from a few days ago.
ARM Macs are imminent; why they make sense, and why the implications could be far-reaching, for not just Apple but also Intel.
What to do before adopting every little trend you come across
