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

OpenAI Microscope

Exploring the capabilities of the OpenAI Microscope for enhanced understanding

4/14/2020
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

Exploring the development of commercial-grade peer-to-peer collaboration software, going beyond research prototypes.

4/14/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Periskop: Exception Monitoring Service

A technical blogpost about Periskop, an exception monitoring service designed for microservice environments.

3/16/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company

Building and consuming datasets at your company: best practices and lessons learned from SoundCloud

3/3/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Watch all of Jane Street's tech talks

Access a collection of Jane Street's tech talks on their YouTube channel

2/20/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

The Magic of Generating an Xcode Project

Exploring the process of generating an Xcode project and its significance in code development.

2/20/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

A Happy New Employee

A reflection on the author's first six months as an iOS engineer on the Recommendations team at SoundCloud.

2/7/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Troubleshooting systemd with SystemTap

Troubleshooting systemd with SystemTap is about ensuring reliable execution of schedules and diagnosing potential issues with the cron daemon in Linux.

2/3/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI standardizes on PyTorch

Insights on OpenAI adopting PyTorch as their standard framework

1/30/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Speeding Up Builds with Dagger Reflect

Optimizing build times in Android apps by utilizing Dagger Reflect

1/30/2020
InstagramInstagram

Five things I learned about working on content quality at Instagram

The blogpost discusses five key learnings from working on content quality at Instagram, including the challenges of measuring quality, the importance of read-path models and sourcing-level filters, the need to track model performance, and the use of calibration and percentile frameworks.

1/25/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Scaling laws for neural language models

Exploring the scalability of neural language models through scaling laws

1/23/2020