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eBay's Lauren Wilcox named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member for contributions to responsible AI and human-centered computing.

In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility , I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist who helps run the AI for Accessibility grant program. As with any tool, AI can be used in very constructive, inclusive, and accessible ways; and it can also be used in destructive,

On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before continuing to read this document. The idea behind the site is that it's very difficult to get people to agree on what moderation

Posted by Dustin Zelle, Software Engineer, Google Research, and Arno Eigenwillig, Software Engineer, CoreML Objects and their

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. It’s almost done. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? Hmm… If you find […]

Every time you ask the user click you lose half of them. (And this why tutorials, splash screens, and lengthy signup flows are a bad idea) If you’ve been building apps for a long time and have seen the results of a lot of A/B tests, you quickly realize that people are a flighty bunch. […]

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rajat Sen and Yichen Zhou, Google Research</span> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLAVI4q3e6yNyTPTCFiLZVQfFm71GOX1TosHg_Sb8M6tVSO1hyphenhyphenZccOlufnqSuXP1rVWHmqHcely6fgW1vex4JdxenniJcaJ7TOomZolUFut8RUdxnOFZDrbt0hrIHkcrK7rl6cq5-kUuWGrOYqIirPAKtnf4vMDauPX4lFAz2PQjiqzqHxMna7eja9gOF/s320/hero.jpg" style="display: none;" /> <p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series">Time-series</a> forecasting is ubiquitous in

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rishabh Tiwari, Pre-doctoral Researcher, and Pradeep Shenoy, Research Scientist, Google Research</span> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBd5rMRA2U1nd8fetuEweTgmHncn49ASMQtPlm6dfsr5V29RwsoUR8UtK4B7oSE1eiIdW-vD-gjCUK4tGZTbsY4XdO0adL2YtAjpgbF1S3mL_Jw3f31SwLKYUtCOLJ807gdXdRmD5iVsrtc_Ii-BiqQacv89vbtRbNAIINa9PhKAF_sDAZu09FLs4599T/s1600/SiFer%20Hero.png" style="display: none;" /> <p> Machine learning models in the real world ar

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML</span> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOndf55Pc7tkXJektbVBEYRsOlxbUVui2uwOdXvuHj9cNpoNw2One4-68fqFNl2_fvv11CcgYfoI1XVQIkpjA9DosaOeqdkIRj9aZZJNoDy8KqB_XCVDtDd_EvT5UGL2ZhXvL2PU3RjN8XBjI0eQe8VIJCKI0-20AG0TKGK58mO9tBZa80P58KSjTU_liK/s1600/InstantTIGO%20hero.png" style="display: none;" /> <p> Text-to-image <a href="https://arxiv.org/a

Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users Incentive programs often don’t perform The people you attract with referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification — folks who are “incentivized” as a broad umbrella category — are usually MUCH WORSE than organic ones. Worse LTVs, worse conversion, less […]

I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me. I am a creative. Not all creative people like this label. Not all see themselves this way. Some creative people see science in what they do. That is their truth, and I respect it. Maybe I even envy them, a little. But my process is different—my being is different. Apologizing and qualifying in advance is a distraction. That’s what my brain does to sabotage me. I set it aside for now. I c

This is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise's handling of the 2023-10-02 accident where a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) hit a pedestrian, stopped, and then started moving again with the pedestrian stuck under the bottom of the AV, dragging the pedestrian 20 feet. After seeing some comments about this report, I read five stories on this report and then skimmed the report and my feeling is that the authors of four of the stories probably didn't read the report, and that people

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Manish Gupta, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research</span> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKJJf1R773hab0veY6zffF2Nf_yfV2mk8YU9yRnuBDD3ak1o0iXecWlJw2x7bL-Ez2MX1c21MXk65VMK5IsoLpJ1H6BTC6k7BvVWl_gHJpJIOG2cm3BwP4V-HCScGHYIynuskbhvu1uorQGprHGbOFmfGI7E5UWemJcZ0xSC3tC5DolBYgyBwugl6OOLr/s1180/matrixhero.png" style="display: none;" /> <p> AI-driven technologies are weaving themselves into the fabric of our daily routines, wit

There's a class of comment you often see when someone makes a popular thread on Mastodon/Twitter/Threads/etc., that you also see on videos that's basically "Why make a Twitter thread? This would be better as a blog post" or "Why make a video? This would be better as a blog post". But, these comments are often stronger in form, such as: I can't read those tweets that span pages because the users puts 5 words in each re

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Ameya Velingker, Research Scientist, Google Research, and Balaji Venkatachalam, Software Engineer, Google</span> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbovKreBr7RlKc4L36E6rLqiZBZzJSq5GLijCkomHREon5tYXd-7C2pppMXnL5Mj2d82kZGnPlarrrMzQOfRnN8kVvqDh1GnadIJ-hbaaS8VjYzCpaD-DgYor5cKx-OhTGZk9iCy5MjtwG2Q9eTyQiipDr5ViMdl2vkxfbLzWnB3wmLb8YfvVsTJ1FnOmw/s1600/EXPHORMER%2005large.gif" style="display: none;" /> <p> <a href="https://en.wikipedi

Grand Theft Auto 6 and the future of AI If you happened to miss it, a few weeks back, here is the game trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. It’s worth watching, and is amazing on multiple levels. But GTA 6 might be the peak of the open world category, untouched by the next wave […]

Next.js 14 includes improvements to self-hosting, error messages, parallel and intercepted routes, Turbopack, and more.

Charting the crit terrain Critique—or, to use its more casual truncation, “crit”— is one of the most powerful team-powered tools that can contribute to a designer’s growth. The merits of a forum in which a designer’s work is evaluated and discussed by their peers at length seem obvious, to say the least, but often, many […] The post Pencils Down, Ideas Up: Navigating Design Critiques with Grace and Grit appeared first on Slack Design .

Dear readers, As we enter a new year, many of us are setting goals to write more and create more content. As someone who has been writing consistently for the past decade, I wanted to share some strategies that have helped me in my writing journey, particularly in a professional context. Collecting ideas First and […]

On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.

Hey readers, This is a small deviation from my usual topics, but wanted to share. This is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavioral change for me. This is in Peter Attia’s book Outlive. Here’s the graph: tldr: if you want to be able to briskly […]

Did you know that, according to a survey by Gallup and Amazon, “…upskilling is becoming a sought-after employee benefit and powerful attraction tool for employers amid the current labor shortage”? Given this new landscape, the team here at Lexalytics, along with our parent company InMoment, is excited to power an expanded partnership with immersive-learning platform Bright, […]

Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done. My last post on Advent of Code spurred a bunch of discussion which inspired me to optimize my 2023 solutions in python even further.

Dear readers, I was recently interviewed by the great Brian Balfour (CEO/cofounder of Reforge) and Fareed Mosavat (ex-Reforge/Slack/Zynga) which turned into a lively discussion — I think we could have gone longer! — which we just published in two parts. You can listen to both parts below, and the kind folks at Reforge also typed […]

A lot has happened in the last year, so I thought it would be good to write up a review. My biggest change in 2023 was that my wife and I had a baby! This has brought a mixture of joys and frustrations, but overall it has been very good....

Hi readers, Doing a short round up on various links, books, a quick life update, and other stuff going on. First, I did not write much in 2023 (I was busy!!) but am proud of what I published… Blog posts from 2023 How to design a referral program. I headed up Uber’s driver and rider […]

Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done. This was my second year completing Advent of Code live during December.

In The birth & death of search engine optimization , Xe suggests Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube downloader". You won't be able to find it because of all of the content farms that try to rank at the top for that term. Even though yt-dlp is probably actually what you want for a tool to download v

Today we're excited to announce the release of Vue 3.4 "🏀 Slam Dunk"! This release includes some substantial internal improvements - most notably a rewritten template parser that is 2x faster, and a refactored reactivity system that makes effect triggering more accurate and efficient. It also packs a number of quality-of-life API improvements, including the stabilization of defineModel and a new same-name shorthand when binding props. This post provides an overview of the highlighted features i

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time. It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate pe

We just released the first development preview of Catalyst, our new fully-componentized, batteries-included application UI kit for React.

There’s nothing like building a major new product for finding all the features you wish you had in your own tools, so we capitalized on that inspiration and turned it into this — Tailwind CSS v3.4.

We just released Heroicons v2.1 which includes a brand new micro style — a full set of almost three hundred 16×16 icons designed for tighter, higher density UIs.

eBay sellers now have a new tool to make social sharing easier, all powered by AI.

On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.

With 2024 almost upon us, we would like to take this opportunity to remind the Vue community that Vue 2 will reach End of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2023. Vue 2.0 was released more than 7 years ago in 2016. It was a major milestone in Vue's journey of becoming a mainstream framework. Many current Vue users started using Vue during the Vue 2 era, and many great things have been built with it. However, active maintenance of two major versions in parallel isn't sustainable for us. As Vue 3 and it

Version 2.0 of SvelteKit , the official framework for building apps with Svelte, is now available. It is an incremental release that adds support for the newly-released Vite 5 along with a bevy of small improvements and one much-requested feature. If you've been paying close attention to Svelte in recent months, you'll know that we've been <a href="https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/docs/introdu

New long-sleeve shirts and tote bags fresh from the Signal test kitchen: We build Signal for people all over the world . So, of course we wanted to reflect that same global outlook in our merch. <a href="https://signal.org/blog/t

We're introducing the next generation of our AI Assistant and some features that will help get your ideas into code even faster.