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Supercharging Style Transfer
Posted by Vincent Dumoulin*, Jonathon Shlens and Manjunath Kudlur, Google Brain TeamPastiche. A French word, it designates a work of art that imita...
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Announcing YouTube-8M: A Large and Diverse Labeled Video Dataset for Research
Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software EngineersMany recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception have ...
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Where have all the iOS games gone?
Anyway I see this question coming up a lot in my twitter stream so I thought I’d post a reply here that I can link to when it comes up.
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Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3
Search IETF mail list archives
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Off the Grid
This shouldn’t be a blog. It really shouldn’t be a blog. But it has to be a blog I think. So here is this blog.
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CEO
In this post I’m going to try to give potential and actual CEO’s (and other C level execs to some extent) some actionable advice when it comes to how they conduct themselves in the hope that this will at some future date save some of you a great deal of misery and in some cases charges of misconduct or worse. My hope…
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My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter
In online forums, I often see questions from people new to C++ asking for recommended reading. I usually respond with a certain set of trusted books, with the caveat that no amount of reading makes up for practice: you have to actually work on something. But what would be a good project to work on? Something that…
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The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security
This is my belated obligatory post about the entire "Apple vs the FBI" episode and whether it should help decrypt the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. People have commented that I should write something, and I've been reluctant in case I go off in full-rant-mode. I wrote the entire post and…
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House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
H.R. 2666 Would Undermine FCC’s Charge to Protect the Open Internet In a disappointing turn of events, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 241 to 173 to pass H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, a bill that would undermine the FCC’s ability to enforce key net...
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Confessions of a Necromancer
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
Today we're introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.
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Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
After a particularly rough couple of months last year, our team (of six) decided it was time for a radical move. At the point we were so downtrodden that our small hope that it would at least provide something new was enough of a motivation for us to decide on a two month experiment: we would try mob programming.
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FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
For the past several months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on an experimental new Web API and an accompanying browser feature called FlyWeb.
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A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009)
Thoughts on software engineering from Rob Bell
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Trump
I'm going to say something very unpopular in my world: Trump is right about some big things. He's right that many Americans are getting screwed by the system. He’s right that the economy is not...
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Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
Google Duo is an app available for Android and iOS that takes the complexity out of 1-to-1 video calling.
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The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it
This week we released our authorisation flow making it possible for you to go from building apps that talk to your bank account, to building apps that can talk to any bank account. This is huge. Check out this SMS bot (how on trend) I hacked up yesterday morning. (and don’t forget to join the beta wait list ).
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Belarus finally bans Tor
Country: Belarus Probed ISPs: Beltelecom (AS 6697) Censorship method: TCP injections We have recently heard of network anomalies in Belarus. Tor has been finally blocked in December 2016, although it had been explicitly declared that Tor should be blocked since February 2015. An anonymous cypherpunk has helped to…
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Open Source Speech Recognition
I’m currently working on the Vaani project at Mozilla, and part of my work on that allows me to do some exploration around the topic of speech recognition and speech assistants. After looking at some of the commercial offerings available, I thought that if we were going to do some kind of add-on API, we’d be best off…
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“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)
The "design patterns" movement in software claims to have been inspired by the works of architect Christopher Alexander. But an examination of Alexander's books reveals that he was actually talking about something much more interesting.
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The first version of Voxel Quest (with source) has been released
It is the moment you have all been waiting for!...ish. I am sticking one toe in the water and putting out a very, very unpolished release of the very first version of the engine (the isometric...