Migrating an iOS app to SwiftUI - Database with Realm
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier·15 Feb 2021
Migrating an iOS app to SwiftUI - Database with Realm To move an existing iOS app codebase to SwiftUI can quickly become a challenge if we don’t scope the difficulties ahead.
Don't Mess with Backprop: Doubts about Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)·13 Feb 2021
Biologically Plausible Deep Learning (BPDL) is an active research field at the intersection of Neuroscience and Machine Learning, studying how we can train deep neural networks with a "learning...
Self-Organising Textures
Distillby Eyvind Niklasson; Alexander Mordvintsev; Ettore Randazzo; Michael Levin·11 Feb 2021
Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation Neural Cellular Automata (NCA In this work, we apply NCA to the task of texture synthesis.
I made a spreadsheet
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog·8 Feb 2021
Visicalc, the world’s first spreadsheet, was also the original killer app. Steve Jobs said that Visicalc “propelled the Apple ][ to the success it achieved”.
Migrating an iOS app to SwiftUI - Navigation & Storyboards
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier·8 Feb 2021
Migrating an iOS app to SwiftUI - Navigation & Storyboards If SwiftUI is great for many things, migrating completely an existing app codebase to it can be really tricky.
Twitter's India policy head, Mahima Kaul, to step down; will transition in March - The Economic Times
Economic Timesby Surabhi Agarwal·7 Feb 2021
NEW DELHI: Twitter's Public Policy Director for India and South Asia has resigned to pursue other interests, the micro-blogging site confirmed in a statement.
Visualizing Weights
Distillby Chelsea Voss; Nick Cammarata; Gabriel Goh; Michael Petrov; Ludwig Schubert; Ben Egan; Swee Kiat Lim; Chris Olah·4 Feb 2021
The problem of understanding a neural network is a little bit like reverse engineering a large compiled binary of a computer program.
Constructing an HTML Tree
Web Browser Engineeringby Handling Author Errors·4 Feb 2021
So far, our browser sees web pages as a stream of open tags, close tags, and text. But HTML is actually a tree, and though the tree structure hasn’t been important yet, it will be central to later...
Publishing Android libraries to MavenCentral in 2021
zsmb.coby Márton Braun·4 Feb 2021
Introduction This is an updated version of an article published two years ago on blog.autsoft.hu.
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
Signal Blog·4 Feb 2021
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country.
Quick Win - Start UI Testing
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)·3 Feb 2021
I’ll admit, adding UI testing to an app that currently doesn’t have it included is probably stretching the definition of quick win, but the aim here isn’t 100% coverage - not right away anyway.
Tests Under the Magnifying Lens
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·2 Feb 2021
Testing is at the heart of engineering practices at SoundCloud. We strive to build well-balanced test pyramids within our code repositories and have as much test coverage as possible for different...
I wrote a compiler
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog·31 Jan 2021
I have a Computer Science degree. I attended a whole course of lectures on compilers (and have a certain fondness for “the red dragon book” as a result).
Curve Circuits
Distillby Nick Cammarata; Gabriel Goh; Shan Carter; Chelsea Voss; Ludwig Schubert; Chris Olah·30 Jan 2021
We reverse engineer a non-trivial learned algorithm from the weights of a neural network and use its core ideas to craft an artificial artificial neural network from scratch that reimplements it.
Quick Win - Support Landscape
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)·28 Jan 2021
If you have a regulatory requirement to provide accessibility in your app (spoiler, you do) the chances are it will say you have a requirement to reach WCAG AA.
High-Low Frequency Detectors
Distillby Ludwig Schubert; Chelsea Voss; Nick Cammarata; Gabriel Goh; Chris Olah·27 Jan 2021
A family of early-vision neurons reacting to directional transitions from high to low spatial frequency.
How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)·26 Jan 2021
The nice thing about reading most ML papers is that you can cut through the jargon by asking just five simple questions. I try to answer these questions as quickly as I can when skimming papers.
Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5
zsmb.coby Márton Braun·19 Jan 2021
Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5 2021-01-19 • Márton Braun Preview! Heads up: most things covered in this post are in a preview state of some sort.
Quick Win - Text Contrast
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)·19 Jan 2021
How many shades of grey do you use in your app? OK, maybe thats a bit cruel towards designers, grey is a great colour, but the problem with grey is that it can be deceptively difficult to...
Semantics, what does it mean?
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes·19 Jan 2021
Semantics, what does it mean? Posted on When people talk about the quality of HTML code, it is often about semantics. But what are semantics?
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