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The hulking robot driving into Three Mile Island is legend among Pittsburgh economic boosters. This, they say, is the origin story of how Western Pennsylvania began its robotics specialty. In the aftermath of the 1979 nuclear accident, Carnegie Mellon University’s newly founded Robotics Institute spearheaded the development of machines capable of navigating the radioactive remnants […]
Cellular-level biology that could help develop vaccines just got more accessible to researchers, thanks to AI. The University of Pennsylvania, along with the University of Puerto Rico, received an $18 million six-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this fall to support an artificial intelligence-based RNA “BioFoundry.” “The goal is to democratize RNA […]
A lot of people will be getting their first taste of virtual reality over the holidays this year — and some might even find a new source of income. The recent release of the Meta Quest 3S has increased the accessibility of self-contained VR/AR headsets with its comparatively low price point of under $300. Some […]
Without a coherent hypothesis for both user outcomes & business impact, a product team’s outputs are waste rather than value When thinking about product development, I perpetually return to two powerful ideas: Combined, these ideas form a thesis: through studying other systems of value delivery, we can design not only products that are more valuable […]
December 3, 2024 Ben talks with Eran Yahav, a former researcher on IBM Watson who’s now the CTO and cofounder of AI coding company Tabnine. Ben and Eran talk about the intersection of software development and AI, the evolution of program synthesis, and Eran’s path from IBM research to startup CTO. They also discuss how […]
One of the more major challenges a software engineering organisation tends to face at one point or another in their lifetime is technical debt that simply cannot be “paid back”. Even with the best of intentions, it does happen, and it can happen for a myriad of reasons, one of them being a stack change […]
And there it is — the moment that you realized your productivity was killed and your focus was derailed, all for an idea that probably won’t matter in two weeks (if not two minutes). But you’ll do it again tomorrow, because that’s what product teams do. We entertain ideas. We explore possibilities. We chase potential. […]
I won’t however just leave you with a table up for interpretation, as I think all of those traits are worth a paragraph or two of clarification. Impact driven as opposed to being creative or technology driven. In over a decade, I have met more passionate engineers about technologies, coding paradigms and abstractions than those […]
Poka-Yoke ဆိုတာ ဂျပန်စကားဖြစ်ပြီး အမှားဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေကို ကြိုတင် ကာကွယ်တဲ့ နည်းစနစ်တစ်ခုပါ။ Poka-Yoke နည်းစနစ်ကို 1960 ဝန်းကျင်လောက်က ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမှ Shigeo Shingo က Toyota Production System (TPS) ရဲ့ အစိတ်အပိုင်း တစ်ခုအနေနဲ့ တီထွင်ခဲ့တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ အနှစ်ချုပ် – အမှားဖြစ်ခြင်းရဲ့ အကြောင်းရင်းတွေကို ဆန်းစစ်ပြီး၊ အမှားမဖြစ်စေဖို့ ကြိုတင်ကာကွယ် ထားနိုင်မယ်ဆိုရင် ထုတ်ကုန်ပစ္စည်းရဲ့ အရည်အသွေးတွေ ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်မှာဖြစ်တယ်။ Poka-Yoki နည်းစနစ်ကို ဆော့ဖ်ဝဲ ထုတ်ကုန်တွေ ဖန်တီးတဲ့ နေရာမှာ – ဘယ်လိုသုံးလို့ရမလဲ? ဘယ်လိုသုံးနေလဲ? 1) Input Validation & Error Messages* Server မှာ Data တွေမသိမ်းခင်မှာ User Input […]
Prezi has quite a sophisticated engineering culture where solutions are built that do the job. Some solutions that have been built in the past stood out and aged well. In other areas, some solutions have lost traction compared to industry standards. In the second half of 2023, we modernized one of those areas that was […]