Engineering Insights

React Labs: What We've Been Working On – June 2022

React 18 was years in the making, and with it brought valuable lessons for the React team. Its release was the result of many years of research and exploring many paths. Some of those paths were successful; many more were dead-ends that led to new insights. One lesson we’ve learned is that it’s frustrating for the community to wait for new features without having insight into these paths that we’re exploring.

Director of Machine Learning Insights [Part 3: Finance Edition]

MongoDB and Vercel: from idea to global fullstack app in seconds

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining Sahir Azam, MongoDB’s Chief Product Officer, on stage at MongoDB World in New York City. We announced —and shared our vision for enabling developers to create at the moment of inspiration. the Vercel and MongoDB integration Read more

AI-written critiques help humans notice flaws

We trained “critique-writing” models to describe flaws in summaries. Human evaluators find flaws in summaries much more often when shown our model’s critiques. Larger models are better at self-critiquing, with scale improving critique-writing more than summary-writing. This shows promise for using AI systems to assist human supervision of AI systems on difficult tasks.

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Techniques for training large neural networks

Large neural networks are at the core of many recent advances in AI, but training them is a difficult engineering and research challenge which requires orchestrating a cluster of GPUs to perform a single synchronized calculation.

Bringing forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16

The Annotated Diffusion Model