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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Jane StreetJane Street

Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace

Diagnose performance issues easily using Intel Processor Trace with accurate program execution flow and timing information recording.

1/11/2022
ChromiumChromium

Chrome 98 Beta: Color Gradient Vector Fonts, Region Capture Origin Trial, and More

This blogpost introduces the new features, including support for COLRv1 color gradient vector fonts, region capture origin trial, and more, in the Chrome 98 beta release.

1/10/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry

Exploring a sensible and humane approach to ownership in engineering at SoundCloud

1/6/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

BanditPAM: Almost Linear-Time k-medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits

Stanford researchers have significantly sped up k-medoids clustering with their new BanditPAM algorithm, which matches sklearn.cluster.KMeans interface and can be installed with a simple pip command.

12/17/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

Enhancing model accuracy by leveraging web browsing

12/16/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Customizing GPT-3 for your application

Optimizing the language model GPT-3 to suit specific application needs.

12/14/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI

Simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI to design new materials and solve major challenges of the 21st Century

12/9/2021
ChromiumChromium

Chrome on Windows performance improvements and the journey of Native Window Occlusion

The blogpost discusses the performance improvements in Chrome on Windows by utilizing the concept of Native Window Occlusion, resulting in faster startup and fewer crashes.

12/9/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI

Simulating electrons in order to design new materials for clean electricity and high temperature superconductors.

12/9/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Creating Interactive Agents with Imitation Learning

Creating Interactive Agents with Imitation Learning: Building a multimodal interactive agent that engages in extended and surprising physical and linguistic interactions with humans using imitation learning.

12/8/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens

Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens

12/8/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Language modelling at scale: Gopher, ethical considerations, and retrieval

Language modelling at scale: Gopher, ethical considerations, and retrieval

12/8/2021