engblogs

summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication

Leveraging a manager weekly newsletter as a means of team communication for an engineering manager transitioning from a software engineer role

11/25/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Announcing Our Market Prediction Kaggle Competition

Jane Street's announcement of a market prediction Kaggle competition with real financial data and $100K in prizes

11/24/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Using Unity to Help Solve Intelligence

Creating diverse, complex virtual simulations using Unity game engine for reinforcement learning purposes.

11/18/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Breaking down global barriers to access

Highlighting the progress and expansion of the DeepMind scholarship program to foster global access and inclusivity in education

11/5/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles

Using deep learning, the FermiNet neural network architecture accurately computes the energy of atoms and molecules from first principles, paving the way for practical applications in quantum physics and chemistry.

10/19/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Testing SQL for BigQuery

The blogpost explores the importance of testing SQL data pipelines and describes the approach taken to test them at SoundCloud.

10/16/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Fast reinforcement learning through the composition of behaviours

Efficient machine learning by re-combining previously learned abilities to tackle new challenges.

10/12/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Finding memory leaks with Memtrace

The blogpost discusses how Memtrace can help in finding memory leaks and distinguishing between expected and suspicious memory allocations.

10/6/2020
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

Exploring the use of bidirectional lenses for schema changes in distributed software

10/6/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI licenses GPT-3 technology to Microsoft

Exploring the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership for GPT-3 technology integration

9/22/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Pagination Updates on Our API

Introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks on our API, impacting developers and apps.

9/21/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Memory allocator showdown

Comparing the new best-fit memory allocator in OCaml with the next-fit allocator and the challenges of evaluating them in a garbage-collected system

9/15/2020