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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Microsoft AIMicrosoft AI

Online math tutoring service uses AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence

An online math tutoring service leverages AI to enhance students' skills and confidence.

7/13/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

PR Templates for Effective Pull Requests

Providing PR templates as a guide to enhance the effectiveness of pull requests in code review process.

7/12/2022
InstagramInstagram

The Instagram Engineering Blog has a new location

Instagram Engineering content will now be posted on the Engineering at Meta blog, allowing for more regular updates on the novel engineering work being done at Instagram.

7/12/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

7/11/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

Exploring the use of a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology to improve AI systems' understanding of intuitive physics

7/11/2022
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation

Analyzing the effectiveness of policy gradient methods in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and demonstrating how they can outperform value decomposition methods in certain scenarios, such as environments with highly multi-modal reward landscapes, with proper input representation and hyper-parameter tuning.

7/10/2022
Fly.ioFly.io

SOC2: The Screenshots Will Continue Until Security Improves

Understanding and navigating the SOC2 certification process and its importance in ensuring security and compliance for startups and companies.

7/7/2022
Microsoft AIMicrosoft AI

AI-Mimi is building inclusive TV experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing user in Japan

Building inclusive TV experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users in Japan using AI-Mimi.

7/6/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

A proof-of-concept demonstration using deep reinforcement learning to train AI systems that align with human values in economic policies.

7/4/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

Applying deep reinforcement learning to find economic policies that align with human values by majority vote.

7/4/2022
Fly.ioFly.io

The Serverless Server

The blogpost discusses the structure of serverless services and what the term 'serverless' means, as well as walks through the design and implications of a popular serverless platform on the Internet.

6/30/2022
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART

Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART using FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums), a method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another.

6/30/2022