We need quite different functionality than statistics to model language. We may need this functionality in other areas of intelligence, but with language it is obvious. Or, for the DL community – we can model anything with statistics, of course. It will just not be a very good model … What follows is that the […]
Covid 19 has presented extraordinary challenges to almost everyone around the world and to almost all facets of life including: health care, the economy, personal interactions, education, transportation, supply-chain, mental health, law enforcement to name just a few. One of the crucial elements in dealing with a pandemic that affects all aspects of daily […]
Without a doubt, the social revolution in the West and individual insight/enlightenment in the East are among humanity’s greatest accomplishments. But we can have them separate no longer for we desperately need both because individual people make society but, in turn, society makes individuals. We need to unite the quest for personal enlightenment and the […]
I recently gave a talk (YouTube) at the RSS'22 L-DOD workshop. Here's a lightly edited transcript and slides of the talk in blog form.
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour, and the ability to manufacture enough power plants to satisfy the current electrical demand of earth in a ten year period. If both things happen, it will transform the world. Abundant, clean, and radically in
I call it the vertical-horizontal model: a model of neuron interaction, where the neuron is a complete microprocessor of a very special kind. This allows to build a symbolic brain.
Byron Reese is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and futurist. He has enjoyed a wide range of success over 30 years, including two NASDAQ IPOs as well as the sale of three companies he founded. Today Byron is the CEO of JJ Kent, a venture-backed company using AI to create new products. Reese is also the author […]
Today we are happy to announce that Vue 2.7 "Naruto" has been released!
Next.js 12.2 introduces stable Middleware and On-Demand ISR, experimental Edge SSR and API Routes, and more!
Today we're releasing our first batch of official Tailwind CSS website templates — beautiful designs engineered into production-quality codebases, powered by Tailwind CSS and Next.js.
Joscha Bach is a beautiful mind and a very rewarding interlocutor. No surprise I had many requests to have him back on my podcast. I apologize that it took 4 years but the good news is we are going to have a third conversation much sooner this time around. If you haven’t seen our first […]
React 18 was years in the making, and with it brought valuable lessons for the React team. Its release was the result of many years of research and exploring many paths. Some of those paths were successful; many more were dead-ends that led to new insights. One lesson we’ve learned is that it’s frustrating for the community to wait for new features without having insight into these paths that we’re exploring.
The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first should also be great, too…right? Well, not necessarily. Classic mobile-first CSS development is based on the principle of overwriting style declarations: you begin your CSS with default style declarations, and overwrite and/or add new styles as you add breakpoints with min-width media queries for larg
Now with first-party TypeScript types, arbitrary variants, improved CSS variable DX, and tons more.
Yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and neighboring areas. Ingredients 500g strong white bread flour (plus a little more for dusting) 360g lukewarm water 3 tsp instant dry yeast 1 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar 1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil Steps Bloom the yeast in the water and sugar, 10 mins.
Delicious Japanese savory pancake. Okonomiyaki Ingredients 3 tbsp vegetable oil 100g green cabbage, finely sliced 2 rashers smoked streaky bacon 100g plain flour 4 large eggs 300 ml milk kewpie mayonnaise tonkatsu sauce 1 nori sheet 2 scallions bonito flakes Steps Fry the cabbage and bacon in 1 tbsp oil.
If you’ve ever enjoyed a Luau in Hawaii, chances are that the pièce de résistance was delicious melt-in-the-mouth Kālua Pork which is often served as the centrepiece of the Luau feast.
It's been a while since I've written about what we've been working on so I have a lot to share! Too much honestly — so put your swim suit on, sit back in your lounge chair, and prepare to soak up some vitamin CSS.
Animations make browsers more fun, but they also require solving a lot of really interesting algorithmic and design challenges to utilize GPU-accelerated compositing. Find out how in our new chapter, Animating and Compositing!
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design . It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits society; and restores nature. I argued that we need to overcome the inconveniences that prevent us from acting ethically and that we need to elevate design ethics to a more practical level by structurally integrating it into our daily work, processes, and to
Olive and rosemary focaccia Ingredients 7 grams (1 envelope) active dry yeast 625g bread flour 2 1/2 cups lukewarm water 2 tsp honey or caster sugar 5 tsp salt for dough 2 tsp flaky sea salt 8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil bunch fresh rosemary 10 fresh olives Steps Bloom the yeast (10 mins) in the water plus honey or sugar.
Slack is primarily designed for team communication in channels. Channels are where work happens: It’s where teams exchange ideas, get feedback, and share files. It’s a constant stream of conversation that keeps everyone on the same page. But plenty of important information in Slack exists in formats other than messages. Think about how often you […] The post Beyond the last message: Designing for all information in Slack appeared first on Slack Design .
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions. Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to be creativity-enhancing, helpful for many different situations, and fun in a way I haven’t felt from technology in a while. But I also think it’s noteworthy for a few reasons: 1) This is another example of what I think i
Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers 1 whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers. In keeping with this, our architecture is a standard CRUD app architecture, a Python monolith on top of Postgres. Starting with a simple architecture and solving problems in simple ways where possible has allowed us to scale to this size while e
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
Research Assistant Position. Are you passionate about unlocking the value of data? Do you have at least four years of experience in research and strong knowledge of research methodology, statistics/mathematics/numerical data analysis ? Then join our research team and build your potential! See the job description
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
