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Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity

Next.js 8 Webpack Memory Improvements

Recently Next.js 8 was introduced. The release included a massive build-time memory usage reduction. This blog post will explore how we have helped optimize webpack for the community.

AI safety needs social scientists

We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and biases. The aim of this paper is to spark further collaboration between machine learning and social science researchers, and we plan to hire social scientists to work on this full ti

Node.js 11.10.0 (Current)

Better language models and their implications

We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.

Unifying Our GraphQL Design Patterns and Best Practices with Tutorials

How to Use GraphQL Nexus with a Database | Prisma

Learn how to connect GraphQL Nexus to a database with Prisma Client and the Nexus Prisma plugin.

Next.js 8

Next.js 8 introduces Serverless Mode, smaller bundles, performance improvements, and more.