No-fee stock-trading startup Robinhood has received $323 million investment money in its newest funding round, Reuters writes. This brings the startup’s valuation to $7.6 billion, confirming earlier reports.  Last year, Robinhood’s $363 million funding round…

Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.…

Chinese firms are piling into the business

Defunct ecommerce business

Using tips to make up wages is common

Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly increased interest in machine learning in...

Some years ago someone asked whether it would make sense to switch Python to a PEG parser. (Or a PEG grammar; I don’t recall exactly what…

What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty…

In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist.…

(This is another lightly edited post from my old Amazon internal blog.) Your slides are the least of your worries Most contemporary articles about presentation spend at least some time answering th…

In some cases, single-use batteries are still the better option.

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The tiny island will need to turn itself into a data hub to make use of the expected bandwidth