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Marco.orgby Marco Arment17 Sept 2018
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked.
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top 51%Introducing InboxRecyclerView
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan14 Sept 2018
When Google released Inbox for Android some 4 years ago, their UI was rad. I was obsessed with the navigation transition, where emails expanded from their list item when clicked, pushing all other...
Running Interactive Scripts
Web Browser Engineering10 Sept 2018
The first web applications were like the previous chapter’s guest book, with the server generating new web pages for every user action.
Playing with RISC-V
Random Thoughts31 Aug 2018
Over the past few years I’ve started to sour on x86 architecture for just about everything. From servers, desktop, and mobile, I’ve long wished we had architectures competing with x86 at the high...
MAXIE ROO IS JUST LIKE YOU! | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors19 Aug 2018
by Kelly Ryner written and illustrated by Kelly Ryner ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A tender, gorgeously illustrated escape into nature.
OH, PEARL! | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize19 Aug 2018
written and illustrated by Alania Caridad Hinckson ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A simple, heartwarming read-aloud story sure to become a comforting bedtime favorite.
Designing a flick dismissible image viewer
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan15 Aug 2018
While working on Dank, my primary goal was to ensure that user generated content on Reddit receive as much attention in the app as possible, while letting the UI take a back-seat.
Distill Update 2018
Distillby Distill Editors14 Aug 2018
A little over a year ago, we formally launched Distill as an open-access scientific journal. It’s been an exciting ride since then!
Dijkstra's in Disguise
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)8 Aug 2018
Dijkstra's, Bellman-Ford, Johnson's, Floyd-Warshall are good algorithms for solving the shortest paths problem.
Differentiable Image Parameterizations
Distillby Alexander Mordvintsev; Nicola Pezzotti; Ludwig Schubert; Chris Olah25 Jul 2018
A powerful, under-explored tool for neural network visualizations and art. Neural networks trained to classify images have a remarkable — and surprising! — capacity to generate images.
Feature-wise transformations
Distillby Vincent Dumoulin; Ethan Perez; Nathan Schucher; Florian Strub; Harm de Vries; Aaron Courville; Yoshua Bengio9 Jul 2018
A simple and surprisingly effective family of conditioning mechanisms. Many real-world problems require integrating multiple sources of information.
US Digital Currency
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman10 May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky3 May 2018
Hey, we have a new thing for you today! Today’s new thing is called Stack Overflow for Teams. It lets you set up a private place on Stack Overflow where you can ask questions that will only be...
Band-aiding legacy networking libraries with Retrofit and OkHttp
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan30 Apr 2018
When Uncommon was brought in to refactor a big legacy app last year, we found ourselves in a strange situation.
Strange and maddening rules
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky23 Apr 2018
There’s this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work, line by...
A Dusting of Gamification
Joel on Softwareby Joel Spolsky13 Apr 2018
[This is the second in a series of posts about Stack Overflow. The first one is The Stack Overflow Age.]
Productivity
Sam Altmanby Sam Altman10 Apr 2018
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place.
QUEENS AND KINGS | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors3 Apr 2018
by Lucy Worsley ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A singular perspective on palace intrigue. A front-row seat at court.
NOTES OF DECEPTION | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors3 Apr 2018
by Merryl Goldberg & Vince Houghton ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An inspiring story of four determined people using music to establish human contact and fight oppression.
The Building Blocks of Interpretability
Distillby Chris Olah; Arvind Satyanarayan; Ian Johnson; Shan Carter; Ludwig Schubert; Katherine Ye; Alexander Mordvintsev6 Mar 2018
Interpretability techniques are normally studied in isolation. We explore the powerful interfaces that arise when you combine them — and the rich structure of this combinatorial space.