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SpotifySpotify

Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly

Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly - How Spotify transitioned their iOS app to the Bazel build system without impacting releases or developer productivity

10/17/2023
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Stanford center makes comprehensive COVID dataset available on Google Cloud

Stanford center collaborates with CDC to make comprehensive COVID dataset available on Google Cloud, enabling researchers to analyze disease patterns, clinical guidelines, and public health surveillance.

10/17/2023
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Stanford launches platform for high-risk data on Google Cloud

Stanford launches Carina, a customizable high-risk data platform on Google Cloud, to reduce lead time for project setup and provide a secure on-premise compute environment for researchers.

10/17/2023
DoorDashDoorDash

Addressing the Challenges of Sample Ratio Mismatch in A/B Testing

Addressing the Challenges of Sample Ratio Mismatch in A/B Testing: This blogpost explores the challenges of sample ratio mismatch in A/B testing, provides examples of failures, and discusses solutions to reduce SRM rate.

10/17/2023
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

C3D VMs with 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors now GA, with 45 percent performance increase

C3D VMs with 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors now GA, offering 45 percent performance increase

10/17/2023
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: What counts as a "universal" word? (the finale)

Exploring the concept of 'universal' words and analyzing reader suggestions to determine their universality.

10/17/2023
MIT AIMIT AI

New technique helps robots pack objects into a tight space

New technique using generative AI solves packing problems for robots by satisfying multiple constraints simultaneously

10/17/2023
GitHubGitHub

Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry

Enhance Git performance analysis using Trace2 receiver with OpenTelemetry for detailed telemetry visualization

10/16/2023
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF

Exploring new perspectives on the PPO algorithm in hierarchical reinforcement learning

10/16/2023
DatabricksDatabricks

How CIOs are laying the foundation for AI-led growth

CIOs are investing in and leveraging data and AI to lay the foundation for AI-led growth, with high expectations for efficiency gains.

10/16/2023
Google AIGoogle AI

Improving traffic evacuations: A case study

Improving traffic evacuations in cities using case study and traffic simulations

10/16/2023
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics

Llemma is an open language model for mathematics trained on a 55 billion token dataset that shows improved mathematical capabilities and can be adapted to various tasks through prompting or additional fine-tuning.

10/16/2023