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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Feb 2018
by Elizabeth Alexander ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A timely meditation on poetry and connectedness, modeling ways of resisting racism and authoritarianism.
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Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·19 Feb 2018
by Lynette Rice ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 2026 Warning: This inside look at a medical show might cause dopamine rushes. Behind the scenes of a pioneering medical drama series.
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Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize·19 Feb 2018
by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 8, 2026 An illuminating addition to the literature of abolitionism, the Civil War, and the struggle for civil rights.
Masters of Scale: How to build your company to last, with John Elkann
Masters of Scale·7 Feb 2018
About John - Chairman & CEO of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. - Chairs Fiat and its global automotive brands: Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Maserati, and Fiat.
Handling Buttons and Links
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
Our browser is still missing the key insight of hypertext: documents linked together by hyperlinks. It lets us watch the waves, but not surf the web.
Sending Information to Servers
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
So far, our browser has seen the web as read-only—but when you post on Facebook, fill out a survey, or search Google, you’re sending information to servers as well as receiving information from...
Keeping Data Private
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
Our browser has grown up and now runs (small) web applications. With one final step—user identity via cookies—it will be able to run all sorts of personalized online services.
Adding Visual Effects
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
Right now our browser can only draw colored rectangles and text—pretty boring! Real browsers support all kinds of visual effects that change how pixels and colors blend together.
Scheduling Tasks and Threads
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
Modern browsers must handle user input, request remote files, run various callbacks, and ultimately render to the screen, all while staying fast and responsive.
Animating and Compositing
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
Complex web applications use animations when transitioning between states. These animations help users understand the state change and they improve visual polish by replacing sudden jumps with...
Supporting Embedded Content
Web Browser Engineering·1 Jan 2018
While our browser can render complex styles, visual effects, and animations, all of those apply basically just to text.
A Clarification
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·16 Dec 2017
I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it.
E Pur Si Muove
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·14 Dec 2017
Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.
Masters of Scale: Learn to unlearn (Part 2), with Barry Diller
Masters of Scale·13 Dec 2017
About Barry - Chairman and senior executive of InterActiveCorp (IAC) as of 2024. - Former CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox network.
The Merge
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman·7 Dec 2017
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced...
Masters of Scale: The infinite learner (Part 1), with Barry Diller
Masters of Scale·6 Dec 2017
About Barry - Chairman and senior executive of InterActiveCorp (IAC) as of 2024. - Former CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox network.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence
Distillby Shan Carter; Michael Nielsen·4 Dec 2017
By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.
Sequence Modeling with CTC
Distillby Awni Hannun·27 Nov 2017
A visual guide to Connectionist Temporal Classification, an algorithm used to train deep neural networks in speech recognition, handwriting recognition and other sequence problems.
How good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easy
Dan Luu·21 Nov 2017
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated.
Masters of Scale: Look for the ideas that come at you sideways, with Diane Greene
Masters of Scale·10 Nov 2017
About Diane - Co-founded VMware, pioneering server virtualization in 1998 - Led VMware as CEO through rapid growth and $625M sale to EMC in 2003 - Senior Vice President of Google Cloud and Alphabet...
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