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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Applying for technical roles

Addressing the gender gap in the STEM workforce and providing guidance for women on applying for technical roles.

6/23/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Really low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

Exploring the use of FPGAs for low-latency systems and the increased accessibility of renting FPGA cards on the cloud

6/22/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Procgen and MineRL Competitions

Exploring the latest advancements in procedural generation and MineRL competitions

6/20/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Image GPT

Exploring the innovative capabilities of Image GPT for enhanced visual understanding.

6/17/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

dm_control: Software and Tasks for Continuous Control

A collection of Python libraries and task suites for reinforcement learning agents in an articulated-body simulation, with convenient bindings, procedural model manipulation, and task authoring.

6/15/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Announcing Twinagle: Twirp and Protobuf for Finagle

Combining Twirp and Protobuf with Finagle to enhance serialization protocols

6/12/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI API

Exploring the capabilities and applications of the OpenAI API

6/11/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Using ASCII waveforms to test hardware designs

Utilizing ASCII waveforms as an automated method to test the accuracy of hardware designs

6/1/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Acme: A new framework for distributed reinforcement learning

A framework for building readable, efficient, research-oriented RL algorithms that enables simple descriptions of RL agents at various scales of execution, including distributed agents.

6/1/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Language models are few-shot learners

Understanding the potential of few-shot learning in language models

5/28/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Stretch Opportunities for Engineers

Exploring the concept of stretch opportunities for engineers and how they can help foster growth and skill improvement.

5/20/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

AI and efficiency

Exploring the intersection of AI and efficiency in modern technology.

5/5/2020