Most people you meet in everyday life — at work, in the neighborhood — are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter or watch the news, and you’d think we were all nuts and nasty. Why it matters: The rising power and prominence of the nation’s loudest, meanest voices obscures what most of usContinue reading “The new silent majority: People who don’t tweet”
Category Archives: Internet
Goosh: The unofficial Google shell
This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.You type commands and the results are shown on this page. Goosh is powered by google custom search. Read more…
Mozilla Hubs
Hubs is a virtual collaboration platform that runs in your browser. With Hubs you can create your own 3D spaces with a single click. Invite others to join using a URL. No installation or app store required. Read more…
Introducing the .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda
You can now use the .NET 6 runtime to build AWS Lambda functions. The new managed runtime supports both x86 and Arm/Graviton2 processors. You can get started with .NET 6 and Lambda using your tool of choice, including Visual Studio 2022 with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, the .NET CLI with the Amazon.Lambda.Tools globalContinue reading “Introducing the .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda”
MuZero’s first step from research into the real world
Collaborating with YouTube to optimise video compression in the open source VP9 codec. In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Its successors, AlphaZero and then MuZero, each represented a significant step forward in the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms, mastering a greater number ofContinue reading “MuZero’s first step from research into the real world”
The internet’s most useless website is a well of deep wisdom
Some human endeavors peak early before a long decline: commercial airline travel, the Ramones discography, eating a large stack of pancakes. Also, the internet. The pinnacle of cyberspace, it turns out, was attained in late 1999 with the launch of a website called Zombo.com. Read more…