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What I Learned at Activision
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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How much do electric car batteries degrade?
Many electric cars will still have more than 80% of their initial capacity after 200,000 miles.
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California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness
Houston and Dallas reduced street homelessness dramatically not by being more compassionate or cruel than California, but by building working systems
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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)
Although we are not yet able to release the OGL at this time, we would like to update you on how things are developing, and the goals we have in mind fo...
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If I could make my own GitHub
My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third wife has a skincare
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The case for banning ads in social media
Social media has been at the center of a number of firestorms around everything from being intentionally addicting, to making people depressed, to gleefully spreading misinformation and destabilizing democracies around the world. While almost everyone can agree that something must be done, there’s not a lot of…
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Google: Patently Absurd
How is Google’s argument here different than simply demanding that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, *et al* should simply sit back and let Google do whatever it wants with Android, regardless of the patents they hold?
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Facebook Political Problems
Facebook’s political problems stem directly from its size and drive for growth; they are societal issues, not antitrust ones.
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The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
A few weeks ago, we released a whole bunch of new features to Dropbox Plus, our paid plan for personal users. While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life. About 150 people worked on this launch: engineers, product managers, designers, copywriters, and many more.
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Making AI better at math tutoring
Too many students struggle with math. In fourth grade, only 36% of students are proficient in math. By ... Read more
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On Google's Acquisition of Nest
Google’s Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular. Instead, it’s about Google having the ability to do consumer hardware right, in general.
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The case against crisis-mongering
We face problems. As have all societies ever.
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Decade of the Battery
A repost with some updates.
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Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions
In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered: New account registration…
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Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)
Toyota organizes a car-hacking event that captivates participating students. We uncovered the important purpose behind the event. #TOYOTATIMES
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Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud
Link fraud is increasingly undermining trust in major online platforms, including Google, Bing, and X (Twitter).
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Docker closes $40M Series C led by Sequoia
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Don’t mess with IBM
How companies like IBM intimidate employees and discourage them from speaking up.
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Boards in Asana
Learn more about Boards in Asana -- a simple, visual way to track your team's work -- and how to use it.
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Improving our account management policies to better support customers
By Ben Treynor Sloss, VP 24x7 Recently, a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customer blogged about an incident in June, in which a project they ...