As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it effectively.
If you’re a data scientist on a product team, much of your work involves getting a product ready for release. You may conduct exploratory data analyses to understand your product’s market, or build the data models and pipelines needed to power a new product feature, or design a machine learning model to unlock new product functionality. But your work doesn’t end once a product goes live. After a product is released, it’s your job to help identify if your product is a success.
Hi, we’re Alison and Zoe, Associate and Junior Designers, respectively, and we just joined Slack in fall of 2021. Our first project here: building guidelines for onboarding emails. If you’ve ever joined a Slack workspace, you’ve gotten one of these. In fact, every person that interacts with Slack as a product will receive onboarding emails […] The post How we transcend languages and formats — even with our onboarding emails appeared first on Slack Design .
There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive". We've previously discussed Marc Andreessen's quote that tech hiring can't be inefficient here and here : Let's launch
React 18 is now available on npm! In our last post, we shared step-by-step instructions for upgrading your app to React 18. In this post, we'll give an overview of what's new in React 18, and what it means for the future.
As we shared in the release post, React 18 introduces features powered by our new concurrent renderer, with a gradual adoption strategy for existing applications. In this post, we will guide you through the steps for upgrading to React 18.
A little less than a year ago, I joined the awesome Cohere team. The company trains massive language models (both GPT-like and BERT-like) and offers them as an API (which also supports finetuning). Its founders include Google Brain alums including co-authors of the original Transformers paper. It’s a fascinating role where I get to help companies and developers put these massive models to work solving real-world problems. I love that I get to share some of the intuitions developers need to start
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One of the useful features of GATE is that documents can be loaded directly form the web as well as from local files. This is specifically useful for pages which update frequently which you might want to process repeatedly. While using this feature recently we came across some pages that refused to load correctly. The page loaded fine in a web browser but returned a 403 unauthorised res
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We just released Headless UI v1.5, which includes a brand new `Combobox` component.
[Click to collapse / expand section on sports] Here are some notes from talent scouts: Recruit A: ... will be a real specimen with chance to have a Dave Parker body. Facially looks like Leon Wagner. Good body flexibility. Very large hands. Recruit B: Outstanding physical specimen – big athletic frame with broad shoulders and long, solid arms and leg. Good bounce in his step and above avg body control. Good st
Many of you know that I am a fan of Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular. So I’ve always wanted to get a Zen Master on the podcast. I never imagined, however, that there is a Zen Master who has listened to almost every episode of my show. But the universe is a […]
Next.js 12.1 introduces on-demand ISR, support for styled-components and Relay, zero-config Jest support, and more!
Please join us for our next Lunch and Learn event. The topic is Managing Project Risk Using the Voice of the Team (VoT) and Text Analytics. Dr. John Aaron demonstrates a formalized method of managing risks on projects by routinely soliciting risk statements from project team members. This approach relies heavily on text analytics. It […]
WordStat 9 was released in June 2021 we are regularly upgrading different elements and adding new features to the software. Several new features have been added to the topic modeling features of WordStat 9.0.5. A new matrix allows one to get the top topic terms. This matrix, as well as the term-by-topic probability matrix, can now be […]
There are new improvements to QDA Miner 6 in version 6.0.9. QDA Miner 6.0 was introduced in September 2020. The most recent updates include an improved feature to remove unnecessary carriage returns and hyphens. Previously limited to a single document or a text selection, with this new feature it is now possible to apply such a correction to […]
With a new year and then some more time to actually finish things, we present a new chapter on Scheduling Tasks and Threads. This chapter splits the browser into multiple threads, with threaded raster and scrolling, in only a couple thousand lines of code.
Aloo Gobi Indian spiced potatoes and cauliflower. Ingredients 2 potatoes 1 whole cauliflower 1 onion 2 diced tomatoes 1 tsp turmeric 1 tbsp minced ginger 3 cloves minced garlic 1 minced serrano chile 2 tsp cumin seeds 1 tbsp garam masala 2 tbsp chopped coriander / cilantro 1 tsp red chili powder salt to taste oil Steps Break the caulflower into small florets (~6 cm in diameter) Chop the potatoes into 1cm cubes Fry the cauliflower pieces with salt and turmeric ~3 mins Add the potato and fry a fur
The feedforward/feedback learning and interaction in the visual system has been analysed as a case of “predictive coding” , the “free energy principle” or “Bayesian perception”. The general principle is very simple, so I will call it “difference learning”. I believe that this is directly comparable (biology doesn’t invent, it re-invents) to what is happening […]
This was co-authored with Yao Yue This is a collection of information on severe ( SEV-0 or SEV-1 , the most severe incident classifications) incidents at Twitter that were at least partially attributed to cache from the time Twitter started using its current incident tracking JIRA (2012) to date (2022), with one bonus incident from before 2012. Not including the bonus incident, there were 6 SEV-0 s and 6 SEV-1 s that were at least
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why people wor
Brioche burger buns Ingredients 7g active dry yeast 1 tsp sugar (to bloom the yeast) 50g water (lukewarm) 80g milk (lukewarm) 300g all purpose flour 1 large egg for the dough 1 egg for brushing 45g sugar for the dough 100g butter (room temp) 5g salt sesame seeds Steps Combine the water, milk and tsp of sugar with the yeast and allow to bloom 10 mins.
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
How Slack invests in big little details through Customer Love Sprints Most businesses say they love their customers. Slack is no exception! But what does that mean practically? How do we actually express that love? One way is to add big, new features. These are effective, essential, even, when it comes to how enterprise software […] The post Sweating the small stuff appeared first on Slack Design .
TL;DR: Vue 3 is now the new default version as of Monday, February 7, 2022 ! Make sure to read the Potential Required Actions section to see if you need to make certain changes before the switch to avoid breakage.
10.13140/RG.2.2.20967.37282 It is really difficult to conceptualize things in a novel way – when one has been conditioned for decades to believe in the synaptic plasticity theory of memory.I offer a new type of theory, first outlined in the vision statement linked above, which is called a horizontal-vertical integration theory. There could be several such […]
TLDR? You can find the code and a bunch of examples on GitHub at dps/rust-raytracer . Over the holiday break, I decided to learn Rust
Discussion: Discussion Thread for comments, corrections, or any feedback. Translations: Korean, Russian Summary: The latest batch of language models can be much smaller yet achieve GPT-3 like performance by being able to query a database or search the web for information. A key indication is that building larger and larger models is not the only way to improve performance. Video The last few years saw the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) – machine learning models that rapidly improve how mac
I give a five-star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating to the following book: Jason Parisi and Justin Ball. The Future of Fusion Energy. World Scientific, 2019. ISBN 978-1-78634-749-7. Available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and many other retailers. I came to this book looking for answers to questions such as: Is there still...
Today we’re releasing a chapter on Adding Visual Effects. This first chapter on Modern Browsers swaps in modern libraries and implements some recent web features like blending, stacking contexts, surfaces, and clipping.
This is an excerpt from an internal document David Mackey and I co-authored in April 2019. The document is excerpted since much of the original doc was about comparing possible approaches to increasing efficency at Twitter, which is mostly information that's meaningless outside of Twitter without a large amount of additional explanation/context. At Twitter, most CPU bound services start falling over at around 50% reserved container CPU utilization and almost all services
Last week we hosted our 6th React Conf. In previous years, we've used the React Conf stage to deliver industry changing announcements such as React Native and React Hooks. This year, we shared our multi-platform vision for React, starting with the release of React 18 and gradual adoption of concurrent features.
I see a lot of essays framed as writing advice which are actually thinly veiled descriptions of how someone writes that basically say "you should write how I write", e.g., people who write short posts say that you should write short posts . As with technical topics, I think a lot of different things can work and what's really important is that you find a style that's suitable to you and
I’m David Singleton. This is my personal website / blog. You can find my professional profile on LinkedIn. I grew up in Belfast, spent more than a decade in England and now live in San Francisco, CA.
CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page. But every once in a while a new feature comes along that makes us rethink our design approach. Round displays , for example, make it fun to play with circular clip areas. Mobile screen notches and virtual keyboards offer challenges to best organize content that stays clear of them. And dual screen or foldable devices make us rethink how to best use available space in a number of
This is a pseudo-transcript (actual words modified to be more readable than a 100% faithful transcription) of a short lightning talk I did at Twitter a year or two ago, on pitfalls of how we use latency metrics (with the actual service names anonymized per a comms request). Since this presentation, significant progress has been made on this on the infra side, so the situation is much improved over what was presented, but I think this is still relevant since, from talking to folks at
