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Recreating the Dixie Wildfire’s plume using radar and satellite data, a team of engineers and wildfire experts visualized how fires create their own weather patterns.

Technical breakdown of SoundCloud's Bar Raiser interview program, detailing the training pipeline, shadowing, scorecards, and unconscious bias mitigation that elevate hiring quality and engineering standards.

An in-depth look at SoundCloud's Bar Raiser interview training—how shadowing, scorecards, and bias-aware practices raise hiring quality by bringing an external, cross-engineering perspective to engineering teams.

Changing the interview process during remote working to improve recruiting

Exploring AI projects in document understanding, wind energy, and AlphaFold in partnership with Google Cloud.

Exploring scaling laws in reward model overoptimization

Understanding the scaling laws involved in overoptimization of reward models.

Using human review in combination with a classification model to improve precision and recall in fuzzy matching

SoundCloud announces October 2022 UX-focused updates for iOS and Android, including labeled navigation, renaming Stream to Feed, smaller page titles, and faster access to playlists and tracks.

Overview of SoundCloud's October 2022 app updates on iOS and Android, highlighting UX fixes, navigation enhancements, and faster access to music discovery.

Updates to the SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to improve user experience based on user feedback.

A technical walkthrough of SoundCloud's Android image loading overhaul, from design to code, detailing Picasso-based loading, Palette-driven colors, LruCache optimizations, RecyclerView preloading, and GPU overdrawing fixes that boosted performance.