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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

Uniting pen & paper with software to create dynamic models.

3/29/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

Grading Complex Interactive Coding Programs with Reinforcement Learning

The blogpost discusses the challenges of grading interactive coding assignments and proposes a method that uses reinforcement learning to grade assignments based on gameplay rather than code analysis.

3/28/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

GopherCite: Teaching language models to support answers with verified quotes

GopherCite is a model that aims to address the problem of language model hallucination by supporting answers with verified quotes.

3/16/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

GopherCite: Teaching language models to support answers with verified quotes

A blogpost describing GopherCite, a model that tackles language model hallucination by providing verified quotes as evidence for its factual claims.

3/16/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

New GPT-3 capabilities: Edit & insert

Exploring the latest advancements in GPT-3 with enhanced editing and inserting features.

3/15/2022
ChromiumChromium

How Chrome Became the Highest Scoring Browser on Speedometer, Ever

The blogpost discusses how Chrome became the highest scoring browser on Apple's Speedometer 2.0 benchmark, detailing the improvements and optimizations made to achieve this milestone in browser performance.

3/15/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

The End of the Public API Strangler

Using the Strangler pattern to migrate a monolithic codebase to a fully-fledged BFF for the public API

3/14/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Predicting the past with Ithaca

Collaboration between AI and historians to restore, place, and date ancient texts using Ithaca, a deep neural network for textual restoration

3/9/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Predicting the past with Ithaca

Using Ithaca technology to predict and interpret damaged and ancient Greek inscriptions for a better understanding of past civilizations.

3/9/2022
ChromiumChromium

A new speed milestone for Chrome

The blogpost discusses how Chrome achieved a new speed milestone in the M99 release, including the highest score in Apple's Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark on Mac, performance improvements on Android, and optimizations such as ThinLTO, V8 Sparkplug compiler, short builtin calls, Freeze-Dried Tabs, and Isolated Splits.

3/7/2022
Jane StreetJane Street

Research internships in our Tools and Compilers group

Announcement of research internships in the Tools and Compilers group

3/4/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Economic impacts research at OpenAI

Exploring the economic impacts of AI through research at OpenAI

3/3/2022