The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Its sweet spot is applications that involve resource-intensive algorithms coordinated via complex, hierarchical workflows that last anywhere from minutes to years. A Cosmos service This article will explain why we built Cosmos, how it works and share some of the things we have learned along the way. Modularity?—?An Productivity?—?Local

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What’s the reality? But 18% already have applications in production. Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude, or run LLaMA 1 on their laptop. Only 4% pointed to lower head counts.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Although I was born in North West England, I grew up in Corby, a steel working town in the middle of the country. From the 1930s, Corby had grown to rely on steel production, with working-class families — a large number of them from Scotland — flocking to the area. I still have the backstage pass which Billy signed for me.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Foundation models are a class of very powerful AI models that can be used as the basis for other models: they can be specialized, or retrained, or otherwise modified for specific applications. It has helped to write a book.

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Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Something irks me about the phrase “semantic HTML” The intent is clear enough — using HTML in ways that are readable, using plain language to describe things. But that’s not what “semantic” means. We might as well be saying “well written” or “copy edited” They’d be closer fits.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. In this first part of the article, we’ll start with the first five tips , and the rest will continue into the second part. Luis Ouriach.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal” means. Communal devices are intended to be used by groups of people in homes and offices. This expectation isn’t a new one either.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Welcome back to this series about the new HTTP/3 protocol. In part 1, we looked at why exactly we need HTTP/3 and the underlying QUIC protocol, and what their main new features are. We will, however, also be somewhat skeptical of the impact we can expect from these new features in practice.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, it’s heartening to see the likes of Wix adding more code-heavy options to their repertoire. From no- and low-code platforms like Wix and Weebly to techier visual tools like, well, Velo, they’re what we use when we want or need to quickly build sites and web apps — without coding everything from scratch.

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