How Jason Fried wants to change your perception of email with Hey A history of Hey In February 2020, Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, another co-founder of Basecamp, announced that the company was launching a unique email service called Hey that aimed to give you more control over your email. The firm asked users to write in with their experiences and pain points with email, in order to score an invite to try the new service....

How Jurassic sea creatures spent years crossing oceans on rafts Model breakup Our research then turned towards the wood itself. We established that the way to understand how long the colony could have lasted was to develop a “diffusion model.” This estimated how long it would take before the log would become saturated with water and fail. The wood in crinoid raft fossils hasn’t been preserved well enough for us to know what species it comes from....

How knowledge distillation compresses neural networks So, what is knowledge distillation? Let’s imagine a very complex task, such as image classification for thousands of classes. Often, you can’t just slap on a ResNet50 and expect it to achieve 99% accuracy. So, you build an ensemble of models, balancing out the flaws of each one. Now you have a huge model, which, although performs excellently, there is no way to deploy it into production and get predictions in a reasonable time....

It’s always funny to see the big social networks copying features from each other and generally imitating the things that they see working elsewhere.Facebookhas been especially good at it, copying everythingfrom the @ symbolto jumping onFoursquare’s success withFacebook places. LinkedIn has largely ignored these trends and chartered its own course– until recently– when it has started jumping on the success ofFacebookand trying to copy many of the things that makeFacebookthe huge success that it is today....

Last.fmhas one feature that is keeping it going: personal charts, radio and recommendations that are the results of years of scrobbling in some cases: glorious heaven for all the statistic loving music nerds around the world. Yet somewhere along the line, Last.fm forgot how to be exciting, social and even how to be a proper tool for musicians. I fear now Last.fm is heading in a similar direction asMyspacehas been for the past year: oblivion....