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Fly.ioFly.io

Gossip Glomers

This blogpost introduces the 'Gossip Glomers', a series of distributed systems challenges that combine real code with academic rigor to teach people about distributed systems theory and help them gain practical experience.

2/22/2023
DoorDashDoorDash

How DoorDash Designed a Successful Write-Heavy Scalable and Reliable Inventory Platform

Designing and implementing a scalable and reliable inventory platform to manage a large number of items for multiple merchants in the Convenience and Grocery business.

2/22/2023
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

Explores the design and limitations of the Crosscut extension model focusing on local constraint solving, dataflow visualization through algebraic expressions, split operators, handling circular dependencies, and potential extensions like propagating guesses and bridging information to improve interactive geometry constraint solving.

2/21/2023
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes

Exploring design improvements for the Crosscut extension to achieve truly bidirectional circuit programming by integrating meta-ink visual relationships with declarative formula-like expressions, enhancing intuitive creation and encapsulation of reusable components.

2/21/2023
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Alex's Notes

Exploration of well-formedness rules, spatial queries, and component abstraction in Crosscut circuit design to enhance usability and functionality.

2/21/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

How a Brown professor sharpened and shrunk GPT-3

How a Brown professor improved GPT-3 by shrinking it and using multitask training with curated data.

2/21/2023
Fly.ioFly.io

Shipping Logs

This blogpost explains how to ship logs from your applications, centralize them, and use log aggregators like Logtail.

2/21/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Cleanlab CEO shows automatic data-cleansing tools

Cleanlab CEO demonstrates automatic data-cleansing tools for model training, exposing millions of errors in benchmark datasets

2/17/2023
RobloxRoblox

Generative AI on Roblox: Our Vision for the Future of Creation

Exploring the future of creation on Roblox through the implementation of generative AI.

2/17/2023
OpenAIOpenAI

How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?

Exploring ethical considerations in AI system behavior and decision-making

2/16/2023
UberUber

Fixing Go’s Linker: An Unexpected Journey into ARM64, DWARF, and Linker Internals

An in-depth exploration of fixing Go's Linker on ARM64 and debugging its misbehavior on Apple Silicon

2/16/2023
AirbnbAirbnb

Prioritizing Home Attributes Based on Guest Interest

This blog post discusses how Airbnb uses machine learning to extract guest preferences from unstructured text data and provide personalized recommendations to hosts based on home attributes.

2/16/2023