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SoundCloudSoundCloud

Learning Scala at SoundCloud

A backend developer shares their experience of learning Scala at SoundCloud after previously working with Golang.

4/19/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Measuring Goodhart’s law

Exploring the impact of Goodhart’s law through measurement

4/13/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Hierarchical text-conditional image generation with CLIP latents

Exploring hierarchical text-conditional image generation using CLIP latents

4/13/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Hierarchical text-conditional image generation with CLIP latents

Using CLIP latents to generate images based on hierarchical text conditions

4/13/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Measuring Goodhart’s law

Exploring the challenges of optimizing objectives that are difficult or costly to measure in light of Goodhart's law.

4/13/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

An empirical analysis of compute-optimal large language model training

An empirical analysis of compute-optimal large language model training

4/12/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

An empirical analysis of compute-optimal large language model training

An empirical analysis on finding optimal model size and training tokens for a given compute budget reveals that current large language models are too large for their compute budget and lack sufficient training data.

4/12/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

Discovering the systematic errors made by machine learning models

Discovering systematic errors with cross-modal embeddings - This blog post introduces Domino, a new approach for discovering systematic errors made by machine learning models. It discusses a framework for quantitatively evaluating methods like Domino and explores the task of slice discovery in machine learning models.

4/7/2022
ChromiumChromium

What to Expect from Privacy Sandbox Testing

A blogpost providing updates and guidance on Privacy Sandbox testing for the ads relevance and measurement proposals, including information on origin trials, API testing, feedback channels, and updated settings and controls.

3/31/2022
ChromiumChromium

Chrome 101: Federated Credential Management Origin Trial, Media Capabilities for WebRTC, and More

The blogpost discusses the latest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, and covers topics including reducing user agent string information, origin trials, federated credential management API, audio output latency, font-palette and custom palettes, HWB CSS function, window.open() changes, MediaCapabilities API for WebRTC, Secure Payment Confirmation API V3, USBDevice forget() method, and WebUSB sameObject behavior. It also mentions the deprecation and removal of WebSQL in third-party contexts.

3/31/2022
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