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It might surprise some that our departure from Facebook was one of the simplest decisions we’ve ever made. Many posts that discuss leaving a FAANG company focus on leaving some grand sum of money or prestige of working at the company. For us, we were leaving the company where we had launched a project that we knew…
With an encoder-decoder architecture — rather than decoder only — the Alexa Teacher Model excels other large language models on few-shot tasks such as summarization and machine translation.
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
Introducing multitasking to Arduino: learn how to run several tasks at once in your sketches and keep your code responsive.
Culture, technology, & travel once or twice a week. Click to read Back to Humanity, a Substack publication.
Everybody has heard about the latest cool thing™, which is DALL·E 2 (henceforth called Dall-e). A few months ago, when the first previews started, it was basically everywhere. Now, a few weeks ago, the floodgates have been opened and lots of people on the waitlist got access - that group included me. I’ve spent a day…
Are we there yet?
Princeton researchers studied the Common Eastern Bumblebee to learn how social isolation impacts behavior and brain development.
The normally innocuous workplace comic strip is arguably trying to get itself canceled after three decades in syndication. But why?
In 2022, data engineers manage forests, not trees
A concrete use-case of Firecracker with code snippets
A blog post on building a panel with multiple electronic shelf labels (ESL).
Plus! Pensions; Customer-Facing; Use Cases; Making a Market; Reflexive Energy Politics; Diff Jobs
Let's make the CPython team regret adding pattern matching to Python!
Mosquitoes are some of the most annoying (and most deadly) pests out there. If you're from a country without mosquitoes- like Iceland- then you might not realise just how annoying mosquitoes can be. Just imagine returning to your hotel with not only tired feet, a sunburn but also itchy mosquito
To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.
A sure foundation for Computational Complexity source—wonderful 2015 CACM interview Juris Hartmanis passed away this morning. He was a professor in Cornell’s computer science department…
After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be pretty trivial. This post documents the process I followed
U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained by Guy Cramer, President/CEO of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp.
Computing the CRC-32C of a 4KB buffer on a modern x86 chip can be done as a simple loop around the crc32 instruction:
Has TypeScript gotten slow for you? Run this one magic command to visualize what TypeScript is compiling, and maybe get to the root of the issue.
Introduction The other day I was reading this blog post covering existential types in Rust (also known as impl Trait or opaque types). In that blog post, the author makes the following claim. We’re going to have to take a slight diversion into type theory here because it motivates a result that is perhaps intuitive…
For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home…
Today we are extremely happy to finally announce Docusaurus 2.0! 🥳️
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.17.0, a relatively big release with a lot of new and exciting features and plenty breaking changes. We highly encourage users to update to this version after carefully reading about the breaking changes for some important bug
