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Jane StreetJane Street

Really low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

Exploring the use of FPGAs for low-latency systems and the increased accessibility of renting FPGA cards on the cloud

6/22/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Procgen and MineRL Competitions

Exploring the latest advancements in procedural generation and MineRL competitions

6/20/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Image GPT

Exploring the innovative capabilities of Image GPT for enhanced visual understanding.

6/17/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

dm_control: Software and Tasks for Continuous Control

A collection of Python libraries and task suites for reinforcement learning agents in an articulated-body simulation, with convenient bindings, procedural model manipulation, and task authoring.

6/15/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Announcing Twinagle: Twirp and Protobuf for Finagle

Combining Twirp and Protobuf with Finagle to enhance serialization protocols

6/12/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI API

Exploring the capabilities and applications of the OpenAI API

6/11/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Using ASCII waveforms to test hardware designs

Utilizing ASCII waveforms as an automated method to test the accuracy of hardware designs

6/1/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Acme: A new framework for distributed reinforcement learning

A framework for building readable, efficient, research-oriented RL algorithms that enables simple descriptions of RL agents at various scales of execution, including distributed agents.

6/1/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Language models are few-shot learners

Understanding the potential of few-shot learning in language models

5/28/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Stretch Opportunities for Engineers

Exploring the concept of stretch opportunities for engineers and how they can help foster growth and skill improvement.

5/20/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

AI and efficiency

Exploring the intersection of AI and efficiency in modern technology.

5/5/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Open Sourcing Intervene

Open sourcing the solution for fixing a weird looking upload page in the US by the web team at SoundCloud.

5/5/2020