Jimmy Wang

@jim_icy

CS . I enjoy making engaging user experiences and solving problems with software. Ex-hackathon director .

Toronto
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    Apr 19

    I’m a virologist, biotech investor (vaccines, drugs, & diagnostics). For ease, here are all my explainers in one place (why is SARS2 worse than SARS1? What are antibodies? Is vaccine possible?), full of analogies even kids will understand. Will help you know what’s true.

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    Mar 9

    1/ Many of you ask me why I take the COVID-19 outbreak so seriously. Current numbers of cases and deaths are *not* why. 👇 A thread on why I’m worried and what I do personally in this situation.

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    Feb 17

    So I learned of an amusing bug today: Docker for Windows won't run if you have the Razer Synapse driver management tool running. But the reason is the funny part...

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    Feb 16

    GANILLA: Generative Adversarial Networks for Image to Illustration Translation code/pre-trained models/dataset Style transfer using Ghibli anime:

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    Feb 13

    We open sourced tcmalloc! Includes per-CPU caching mode indispensable for highly-threaded servers&extensive huge page support. Lots of worthy things for low-level hackers. I contributed to it a bit incl cache capacity balancing 1/2

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    Jan 3

    The effect can now handle collisions and multiple photos

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    Jan 3

    I'm biased here, but this is one of the strongest visual illusions I have ever seen. None of the colored lines are moving.

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    2 Dec 2019

    We built a really cool machine learning drummer that accompanies your piano in real-time!! This is DrumBot! It’s a web app, so it can come along to your next gig. 🎉 🥁 📝 Blog post: 🎧 Live action:

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    25 Sep 2019

    Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality. Zero hands up.

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    30 Sep 2019

    Inside Chromium's clever and brave plan to change the recipe for cookies: I think it's the biggest change to the web platform you probably haven't yet heard about.

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    27 Sep 2019

    WHAT

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    That feeling when you first discovered `document.designMode`
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    2 Oct 2019

    Got invited by @EightyLevel to talk about my approach for water shaders and caustics!✨🌊 It's my first ever online article, so I'm kinda nervous about this, but give it a try if you're interested ouo) b Read it here ->

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    29 Sep 2019

    AI curriculum 🤖 CS231n: CNNs for Visual Recognition, Stanford | Spring 2019 CS224n: NLP with Deep Learning, Stanford | Winter 2019 CS285: Deep Reinforcement Learning, UC Berkeley | Fall 2019

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    30 Sep 2019

    With TensorFlow 2.0 soon to be released, I have a couple of educational recommendations for you. 1/

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    26 Sep 2019

    R.I.P. MapReduce. After having served us well since 2003, today we removed the remaining internal codebase for good. Of course, external users of MR on GCP will continue to be supported with our fully upstream compatible managed Hadoop platform, Dataproc.

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    9 Sep 2019

    Easy to read paper summarizing ’s internal software engineering, career and project management practices: 👀

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    16 Aug 2019

    Here's the handout I use in my math courses to coach my students on good mathematical writing:

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    21 Aug 2019

    Magic, coming soon to WebAssembly… The same .wasm file running and using high-level types in: ✨ pure WebAssembly ✨ Python ✨ Rust ✨ Node ✨ The web with no glue code required? 🤯 See how it works ↓

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    7 Aug 2019

    how things "look" in a user interface isn't just aesthetic preference. it impacts how they are or aren't used. 5 examples below:

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    30 Jul 2019

    Good design is not picking colors and making it pretty Good design is removing steps, understanding motivations, making it clearer, more navigable, faster, easier... it is how it works not how it looks. Too many products (even at the largest firms in tech) forget this.

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