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SoundCloudSoundCloud

Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud

Discussion on the circuit breaker pattern and client-side load balancing as essential aspects of resiliency in RPC at scale.

12/7/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Universe

Exploring the vast realms of the universe through a technical lens.

12/5/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

#Exploration: A study of count-based exploration for deep reinforcement learning

Investigating count-based exploration techniques in deep reinforcement learning

11/15/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft

Exploring the collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft in the realm of artificial intelligence.

11/15/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

On the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models

Exploring the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models

11/14/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

A connection between generative adversarial networks, inverse reinforcement learning, and energy-based models

Exploring the synergy of generative adversarial networks, inverse reinforcement learning, and energy-based models

11/11/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

RL²: Fast reinforcement learning via slow reinforcement learning

Optimizing reinforcement learning with RL² approach

11/9/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Variational lossy autoencoder

Exploring the variational lossy autoencoder for enhanced compression and representation learning.

11/8/2016
Jane StreetJane Street

A solution to the ppx versioning problem

A solution to versioning problem in ppx, a preprocessing system for OCaml that maps over the AST to generate code from special syntax fragments.

11/8/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Extensions and limitations of the neural GPU

Exploring the implications of extending and constraining the neural GPU model

11/2/2016
Jane StreetJane Street

Observations of a functional programmer

A blogpost about observations made by a functional programmer during their keynote at a functional programming workshop.

10/27/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Semi-supervised knowledge transfer for deep learning from private training data

Exploring semi-supervised knowledge transfer in deep learning using private training data

10/18/2016