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Intel and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize Machine Learning Hardware Acceleration
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.
How We Built Shopify Party
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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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