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These are articles and links that I’ve saved from around the web using Raindrop.io
How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations – Jay Alammar – Visualizing
Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us
Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts - Wayne Sheffield
Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to detect Availability Group issues and to respond to them by running jobs.
Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng
This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on
Applying Conway's Law to improve your software development | ThoughtWorks
Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expect
A Founder's Guide to Writing Well — 8 Writing Tips | First Round Review
There's a long list of most frequently-cited skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur. One that rarely makes the list is effective writing. Upstart CEO Dave Girouard pens this thoughtful case for the importance of strong writing in the startup world — and his tips for leveli
Designing for the Appearance of Speed | by Bill Chung | Medium
The jury has spoken: performance, conversion, and brand engagement are inextricably connected.
Why Perceived Performance Matters, Part 1: The Perception Of Time — Smashin
In this article, Denys Mishunov aims to provide you with the reasons and theories for why things function in certain way. He will use examples that are observable in the offline world and, using principles of psychology, research and analysis in psychophysics and neuroscience, he
Real-time cinematic short Memories of Australia stirs powerful emotions - U
When Andrew Svanberg Hamilton left his native Australia to pursue a career in game development on the other side of the world, he took with him deeply ingrained memories of family and landscape. Now he’s recreated them in a beautiful short film, rendered in real time in Unreal En
Linters aren't in your way. They're on your side - Stack Overflow Blog
The State Of Pixel Perfection
A walkthrough of the term pixel perfection and if it's still relevant today or not.
Ethical technology: From purpose to practice | Perspectives | ThoughtWorks
This issue of Perspectives explores the strategies and frameworks that enable enterprises to foster an ethical technology practice.
Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework /// Iain Bean
Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website
Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively
University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment.
Go hard and go home: what it’s like designing during a pandemic | by Jordan
At the end of April 2020, the Australian Government introduced a range of measures to help small businesses deal with the impact of COVID-19. JobKeeper was one of those measures. It was basically a…
China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global - The Atlant
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
Some reader is bound to declare that a better title for this post would be "37 Ways That You Can Use Words Unwisely", or "37 Ways That Suboptimal Use…
We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?
A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.
You've only added two lines - why did that take two days! ~ Matt Lacey: Cre
It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...
All Hands on Deck. What does Slack do when Slack goes… | by Ryan Katkov | J
This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for mill
A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack | by Laura Nolan | Jun
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant ou
Accessible to some - Manuel Matuzović
An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web.
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Expla
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
Staff-plus interview processes.
When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t