Our work on RL for chip floorplanning (Nature’21) is now open-source! github.com/google-researc… We hope "CircuitTraining" enables new advances in learning-based chip design. Joint work w/ TF-Agents, Sergio (🌈)🕊️#PalestineLivesMatter, Summer Yue, Toby J. Boyd, @esonghori, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Anna Goldie

"notable" (from "Effective C")

Me: build this app native? Devs: Nah, Flutter, it’s just easier. … Devs: We are Mac devs now 🤷‍♂️ … Devs: Can build for Web too 🤔 … Devs: In-Car now 🥸 … Devs: We just built a game 🫠 This is basically the true story of Very Good Ventures 🦄💙

This is one of those surveys that's used to justify investments (or cutbacks) in various technologies (like, say, Flutter or Dart). I always wonder how representative it is. Anyway, you should go fill it out... surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer-e…

TechCrunch: “Google’s Flutter 3 adds support for macOS and Linux desktop apps” #Flutter techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/goo…

Some takeaways from Herb Sutter's Cpp2 announcement. Thread 🧵

Feeling a little fall like out there this evening. There is a chance temperatures drop into the 40s overnight in the Seattle area. Last time Seattle had a low in the 40s was over 3 months ago ( June 14th low 48° ). Highs Saturday in the 60s. #wawx

Back from ICFP, and had a great time. One thing that was striking was how much energy there was at the conference in general (people are happy to be back in person) and about OCaml in particular.

and it is gone final balance: ~2KLOC.

Google “Dart” today, you won’t be disappointed 😆

new little song: "The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

🔐 Dart Language and Flutter are on a mission to improve security. We have achieved SLSA Level 2 security on Flutter's Cocoon application, reduced our Identity and Access Management permissions to the minimum required access, and more 👉 goo.gle/3CsE4qF

Some ongoing work on supply chain security for Dart and Flutter. opensource.googleblog.com/2022/09/flutte…

Turns out, one builds a thing, which solves a problem, is open source and has a happy + active community and it just gets a little better every day. 🙂

updated mrale.ph/dartvm a bit: - isolate groups - global dispatch table - cross linked to other docs which appeared in the past few years

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