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OpenAIOpenAI

Text and code embeddings by contrastive pre-training

Exploring the power of text and code embeddings through contrastive pre-training

1/24/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

Reward Isn't Free: Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

Read about how to supervise the reward learning process for robots by leveraging crowd-sourced natural language descriptions of robot behavior and using diverse human videos from the web.

1/21/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

Exploring how multi-agent deep reinforcement learning can enhance learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents to model complex social interactions and social norms.

1/18/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

Exploring how multi-agent deep reinforcement learning can model complex social interactions and create richer simulations.

1/18/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery

AlphaFold is a groundbreaking AI system that accurately predicts protein structures, advancing scientific discovery and potentially revolutionizing disease treatment and environmental management.

1/15/2022
Jane StreetJane Street

How Jane Street Pairs Interns to Projects and Teams During the Software Engineering Internship

The blogpost explains how Jane Street pairs interns to projects and teams during their software engineering internship.

1/14/2022
Jane StreetJane Street

Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace

Diagnose performance issues easily using Intel Processor Trace with accurate program execution flow and timing information recording.

1/11/2022
ChromiumChromium

Chrome 98 Beta: Color Gradient Vector Fonts, Region Capture Origin Trial, and More

This blogpost introduces the new features, including support for COLRv1 color gradient vector fonts, region capture origin trial, and more, in the Chrome 98 beta release.

1/10/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry

Exploring a sensible and humane approach to ownership in engineering at SoundCloud

1/6/2022
Stanford AIStanford AI

BanditPAM: Almost Linear-Time k-medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits

Stanford researchers have significantly sped up k-medoids clustering with their new BanditPAM algorithm, which matches sklearn.cluster.KMeans interface and can be installed with a simple pip command.

12/17/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

Enhancing model accuracy by leveraging web browsing

12/16/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Customizing GPT-3 for your application

Optimizing the language model GPT-3 to suit specific application needs.

12/14/2021