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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
ChromiumChromium

How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality

This blogpost explores how WebAssembly is revolutionizing web development, enabling faster iteration speed, immediate support across browsers, and improved security, while acknowledging its disadvantages and limitations.

4/3/2023
LyftLyft

The Recommendation System at Lyft

This blog post explores the scope and goals of the recommendation system at Lyft, including customizing app experiences for riders, managing marketplace balance, and recent changes made by the Rider team.

4/3/2023
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research

Introducing Koala, a chatbot trained on dialogue data gathered from the web, and its performance compared to ChatGPT and Stanford's Alpaca.

4/3/2023
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Exploratory Analysis of TRLX RLHF Transformers with TransformerLens

Analyzing TRLX RLHF Transformers using TransformerLens to showcase interpretability of RLHF models

4/2/2023
StripeStripe

Automatic currency conversion

Currency conversion made easy for businesses in the US and Canada using Checkout and Payment Links, allowing dynamic localization of pricing to 30 countries with one click in the Dashboard.

4/1/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Practical solutions: enterprise value from foundation models

Learn how to deliver enterprise value with practical solutions using foundation models in this blogpost.

3/31/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Snorkel Flow Spring 2023: warm starts and foundation models

Snorkel Flow Spring 2023 introduces new capabilities for adapting foundation models for enterprise use, including warm starts and fine-tuning, along with enhancements for sequence tagging, PDF extraction, embedding import, and the new Studio experience.

3/30/2023
MIT AIMIT AI

A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks

Designing optimal neural networks for specific tasks using specialized building blocks to improve accuracy of machine-learning models.

3/30/2023
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction

Exploring and iterating on multiple programming models and design strategies to develop a cohesive digital notebook that merges hand-drawn inking with dynamic computing capabilities.

3/29/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Adverse drug events: how to spot them with machine learning

Using machine learning to identify adverse drug events and improve medication prescribing.

3/29/2023
MIT AIMIT AI

Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells

A programmable bacterial injection system capable of delivering proteins in mice and human cells, with potential applications in gene and cancer therapies.

3/29/2023
StripeStripe

How we built it: Stripe Radar

Understanding the powerful fraud prevention solution, Stripe Radar, and the key decisions, lessons, and experience gained from building it over the past seven years.

3/29/2023