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A technical look at how SoundCloud reduced playback latency by integrating Flipper’s native sink with Oboe and AAudio on Android to deliver faster, cross-platform audio streaming.

Improving latency in SoundCloud's Android application by leveraging a new engine for the player's audio sink.

Exploring the latest advancements in robotics at the OpenAI Robotics Symposium 2019.

Practical guide to building SLO-driven alerting with multiwindow, multi-burn-rate thresholds, using Prometheus metrics to balance rapid detection and minimal noise in a distributed system.

A practical guide to alerting on SLOs with multiwindow, multi-burn-rate rules that balance fast detection and low noise, using Prometheus, HAProxy exporters, and white-box vs black-box monitoring within an SRE framework.

Implementing alerting based on service-level objectives (SLOs) to fulfill user expectations and efficiently allocate resources at SoundCloud.

Highlights of innovative projects by candidates in OpenAI's 2019 Scholars program

Exploring the innovative final projects of the OpenAI Fellows from the Fall 2018 program.

Highlights from AAAI 2019 conference discussing interesting machine learning projects and themes.

Maestro is SoundCloud's web playback library that leverages HLS, Media Source Extensions (MSE), and the Web Audio API to deliver cross-browser, progressively streamed audio via the HTML5 audio element with preloading, buffering strategies, and robust state management.

A technical overview of SoundCloud's Maestro, a web playback engine that uses HLS, MSE, and the Web Audio API to deliver cross-browser, cross-device playback with progressive streaming, buffering optimizations, and a modular API across HTML5, Chromecast, and beyond.

Exploring transfer of adversarial robustness across perturbation types in machine learning