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SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 3: Domain Gateways

Exploring the evolution of service architecture at SoundCloud with a focus on domain gateways.

9/17/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviours from Curious Exploration

The blogpost explores the importance of retaining emergent behaviors from curious exploration in maximizing the potential and usefulness of curiosity-based learning techniques.

9/17/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models: This blogpost discusses the challenges in mitigating toxic language generation in language models and highlights the unintended consequences of detoxification.

9/15/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models

Exploring methods to mitigate toxicity in language models and evaluating their effectiveness and limitations using classifier-based automatic toxicity evaluation.

9/15/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

TruthfulQA: Measuring how models mimic human falsehoods

Exploring model accuracy in replicating human misconceptions through TruthfulQA

9/8/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Helen Toner joins OpenAI’s board of directors

Announcement of Helen Toner's inclusion in OpenAI's board of directors.

9/8/2021
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system

An alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.

9/1/2021
Jane StreetJane Street

Goodbye Core_kernel

Restructuring standard libraries to eliminate difference between Core_kernel and Core at Jane Street with open source release anticipated by end of year

8/26/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services

Examining the evolution of service architecture at SoundCloud with a focus on value-added services.

8/20/2021
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Downstream Evaluations of Rotary Position Embeddings

Comparing Rotary Position Embeddings with GPT-style learned position embeddings in downstream evaluations.

8/16/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI Codex

Exploring the capabilities of OpenAI Codex in automation and natural language processing

8/10/2021
Jane StreetJane Street

What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition

Internship season at Jane Street in 2021, including in-person interactions and insights into the company's operations.

8/9/2021