How out of date are Android devices?
It’s common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android...
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UI backwards compatibility
About once a month, an app that I regularly use will change its UI in a way that breaks muscle memory, basically tricking the user into...
Read moreObject Detection for Dummies Part 1: Gradient Vector, HOG, and SS
I’ve never worked in the field of computer vision and has no idea how the magic could work when an autonomous car is configured to tell...
Read moreFilesystem error handling
We’re going to reproduce some results from papers on filesystem robustness that were written up roughly a decade ago: Prabhakaran et al. SOSP 05 paper, which...
Read moreKeyboard latency
If you look at “gaming” keyboards, a lot of them sell for $100 or more on the promise that they’re fast. Ad copy that you’ll see...
Read moreLearning Word Embedding
Human vocabulary comes in free text. In order to make a machine learning model understand and process the natural language, we need to transform the free-text...
Read moreAnatomize Deep Learning with Information Theory
Professor Naftali Tishby passed away in 2021. Hope the post can introduce his cool idea of information bottleneck to more people. Recently I watched the talk...
Read moreBranch prediction
This is a pseudo-transcript for a talk on branch prediction given at Two Sigma on 8/22/2017 to kick off “localhost”, a talk series organized by RC....
Read moreFrom GAN to WGAN
[Updated on 2018-09-30: thanks to Yoonju, we have this post translated in Korean!] [Updated on 2019-04-18: this post is also available on arXiv.] Generative adversarial network...
Read moreSattolo’s algorithm
I recently had a problem where part of the solution was to do a series of pointer accesses that would walk around a chunk of memory...
Read moreHow to Explain the Prediction of a Machine Learning Model?
The machine learning models have started penetrating into critical areas like health care, justice systems, and financial industry. Thus to figure out how the models make...
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