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Since its initial launch in 2021, GitHub Copilot has evolved a lot — and so have the AI models that power it. When we first announced GitHub Copilot as a technical preview, OpenAI hadn’t yet launched ChatGPT. Today, AI dominates headlines and workflows alike. Amid this rapid change, our focus has remained the same: help […]
There is a growing sense that neural networks need to be interpretable to humans. The field of neural network interpretability has formed in response to these concerns. As it matures, two major threads of research have begun to coalesce: feature visualization and attribution. Feature visualization answers questions about what a network — or parts of a network — are […]
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Pension funds’ annualized aggregate returns since 2000 have been virtually identical to a simple 60-40 index portfolio. That feels somewhat expected it seems, but what about the true crème de la crème, the top institutions. Surely they could beat a simple buy and hold allocation? Turns out, they really can’t. Below we recall an article […]
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Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of sites have famously run on a series of physical servers lodged in data centers in the US, mostly near New York City. In our scrappy days, we ran everything on a single machine and crowed about it when we got a second server to handle our SQL […]
Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]
Netflix is testing theaters, merch, and themed experiences — but is this a lasting strategy? Check out the potential upsides and risks. Media-streaming veteran Netflix (NFLX 0.60%) is trying a bunch of new things. The king of digital entertainment is adopting a bunch of old-school ideas right now. Some of these moves are already turning […]
The Copilot Chat extension for VS Code has been evolving rapidly over the past few months, adding a wide range of new features. Its new agent mode lets you use multiple large language models (LLMs), built-in tools, and MCP servers to write code, make commit requests, and integrate with external systems. It’s highly customizable, allowing […]
What are computers for? Historically, different answers to this question – that is, different visions of computing – have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built. Consider the early electronic computers. ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, was commissioned to compute artillery firing tables for the United States Army. Other […]
