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Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically , do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to integrate safety principles into your design work in order to create tech that’s s

Learn the five copy principles that help us write great Marketing copy in the Slack voice and tone. Part 1 in a series Words give meaning to your marketing materials: if the brand is the lifeblood of your business, words are the atomic structure that make up that lifeblood. When copy—that is, the […] The post The voice of the brand: 5 principles for great Marketing copy at Slack appeared first on Slack Design .

I’m starting a new blog post series about the development of PyTorch’s computer vision library. I plan to discuss interesting upcoming features primarily from TorchVision and secondary from the PyTorch ecosystem. My target is to highlight new and in-development features and provide clarity of what’s happening in between the releases. Though the format is likely […]

Today we’re releasing a chapter on Sending Information to Servers. In it, our browser becomes an application platform, starting with a 90s-style guest book. The next few chapters will explore that theme, building more and more capable web applications as we go.

An analysis of Twitter Data Using WordStat More and more researchers are using social media as a means to try to understand or explain the impact of events and social policy on society at large or on different targeted groups. We know anecdotally, personally and from media reports the Covid-19 pandemic has had different effects […]

Next.js 11.1 introduces an important security patch, ES Modules support, performance improvements, Rust-based tooling, 2x faster data fetching when pre-rendering, and more!

Intel-based Macs (2006-2020) Up until the end of last year, several options were available to run QDA Miner, WordStat or SimStat on Mac computers. Since 2006, Apple computers came equipped with Intel chips, the same chips used in PCs. One could even remove the MacOS and transform an Apple computer into a pure Windows machine […]

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body simply wasn’t built for the task. But on May 6, 1956, Roger Bannister took everyone by surprise. It was a cold, wet day in Oxford, England—conditions no one expected to lend themselves to record-setting—and yet Bannister did just that, running a mi

We are excited to announce the release of Vue.js 3.2 "Quintessential Quintuplets"! This release includes many significant new features and performance improvements, and contains no breaking changes.

Glad you asked! This question is especially relevant to me right now, as I’m currently learning a new prototyping tool here at Slack. 🙃 Whether you’re trying to learn a technical skill, a new industry tool, sharpening your visual design chops, or leveling up a soft skill like public speaking, the only way to get […] The post Hey Slack Design — What are the best ways to uplevel or learn new skills? appeared first on Slack Design .

While much of the tech world has come through Covid-19 relatively unscathed, some tech-focused industries have definitely felt the effects of the pandemic. As an AI and NLP software vendor with clients in myriad industries — including those with a focus on restaurants, airlines and hospitality — we were certainly affected, especially early on. However, […]

ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 11: The AI Story Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra When looms weave by themselves, man’s slavery will end. Aristotle Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to […]

One of my ML research mentees is following OpenAI's Spinning up in RL tutorials (thanks to the nice folks who put that guide together!). She emailed me some good questions about the basics of Reinforcement Learning , and I wanted to share some of my replies on my b

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than fo

Popular media and hype cycles are leading us to expect radical changes and perfect results from artificial intelligence. But you don’t read perfectly, so why should your AI? In this blog, Tim Mohler explains when "good" is good enough for AI.

After five years, Distill will be taking a break.

Today we’re releasing a chapter on Handling Buttons and Links. This is the chapter when the browser really starts surfing the web. It also becomes a pretty good way to read this book!

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Grace wrote a book! And she talked to Brain Inspired host Paul Middlebrooks about it. The book is about the many different ways mathematical methods have influenced neuroscience, from models of single cells all the way up to equations to explain behavior. You can learn more a

The React team is excited to share a few updates. We’ve started work on the React 18 release, which will be our next major version. We’ve created a Working Group to prepare the community for gradual adoption of new features in React 18. We’ve published a React 18 Alpha so that library authors can try it and provide feedback...

Today we’re releasing a chapter on Applying User Styles. I hope you’ll find that building a simple CSS parser and implementing selector matching and inheritance is interesting, approachable and fun!

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"

This essay is about how the powerful want to become countries, and the implications of cryptocurrencies on the sovereignty of nations. I’m not an economics expert: please leave a comment if I have made any errors. Money allows goods, services, and everything else under the sun to be assigned a value using the same unit of measurement. Without money, society reverts to bartering , which is highly ineffi

A text analytics study of Twitter data using Wordstat 8 We have all heard the stories about people around the world stocking up on utilitarian goods such as toilet paper, soap, disinfectant, and other products at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. News reports showing barren store shelves brought the situation home and created the […]

We’re working interactive widgets to Web Browser Engineering to better explain the concepts and to make room for discoveries. But it’s not easy!

Reprogramming Neural CA to exhibit novel behaviour, using adversarial attacks.

(and avoiding the spam folder) Email is a powerful engagement channel, even in the age of mobile and push notifications. However, if you’re a startup, setting up your email sending infrastructure and monitoring your reputation can be overwhelming and complicated. I’ve seen multiple startups that have struggled with email reputation issues and having their emails […] The post The Startup Guide To Managing Your Email Reputation in 2025 appeared first on John Egan .

Introducing the Explainable AI Cheat Sheet, your high-level guide to the set of tools and methods that helps humans understand AI/ML models and their predictions. I introduce the cheat sheet in this brief video:

Today we’re releasing a new chapter on the History of the Web. The rest of the book is about how web browsers work, but this chapter is about why. It’s about the goals and motivations for the web and for web browsers, which shape the way they work.

Next.js 10.2 introduces performance improvements (faster builds, refresh, and startup), improved accessibility, Automatic Webfont Optimization, and more!

I’ve been working in Growth for 10 years now and I wanted to reflect on the top 10 mistakes I’ve seen teams make from either teams I worked on directly or mistakes I’ve seen from talking to Growth teams at other startups over the past 10 years. For each lesson I also linked to an […] The post Top 10 Mistakes In Running A Growth Team appeared first on John Egan .

The trigger for this post is the reinstating of Richard Stallman, a very problematic character, to the board of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I am appalled by this move, and join others in the call for his removal. This occasion has caused me to reevaluate the position of the...

Weights in the final layer of common visual models appear as horizontal bands. We investigate how and why.