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Self-Organising Textures

Distill11 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 blog8 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”.

Visualizing Weights

Distill4 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 Engineering4 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...

Quick Win - Start UI Testing

Mobile A11y3 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.

I wrote a compiler

Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog31 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

Distill30 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 - Text Contrast

Mobile A11y19 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...