How open are advisors to accepting PhD students with research proposals relevant to, but outside, their specific focus?
“Very very few applicants know enough about the field to know what a good research proposal would actually be.”
There are a ton of different ways to finetune a language model. Here's a (brief) summary of language model finetuning, the various approaches that exist, their purpose, and what we know about how they work.
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.
The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.
The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.
If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.
It’s tempting to push projects out the door to woo and impress colleagues and supervisors, but the stark truth is that even the smallest projects should have proper review periods.
In today's data-driven world, Apache Kafka has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data streaming, particularly with the rise of AI and the immense volumes of data it generates.
The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one of the best (and easiest) ways to specialize an LLM over your own data, but successfully applying RAG in practice involves more than just stitching together pretrained models.
Events fulfill different purposes, depending on your perspective.
What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build?
As new features are added to JavaScript, new vulnerabilities and learning curves are added, too. Should the way the language evolves be changed?
Linear programming can identify money laundering schemes...but should it?
Learn how to link to specific text within a web page.
Documentation is vital software infrastructure and should be treated that way.
Web Components have a lot of pros and cons as browser-native components, and it's good to be aware of their current state for your projects.
'Tis the season for performance reviews. Managers can make a huge difference for their teams if they provide feedback in a good way!
Creating a "drag to select" function is harder than you might think. Here’s an interesting deep-dive into why.
Companies should work to keep you—and you shouldn’t stay somewhere that doesn’t fulfill you.
There’s more to building for developers than just good code.
A friendly approach to building websites for anyone who’s looking to get started.
Every week we’ll share a collection of great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web.
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