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== February 24th, 2020 ==
* '''Leveraging What You've Already Learned''' -- We landed a [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/pull/2763 pull request] from one of our DeepSpeech community contributors that enables a capability called “Transfer Learning”, which allows us to transfer knowledge from one accent or language to another. So, for example, we could jumpstart the creation of a French language model from an existing English one, lowering the amount of data required to support new accents or languages. Transfer learning dynamically scales the learning rate while training to more easily produce high quality models.
* '''Going Global''' -- Version 0.11 of WebThings Gateway was released last week, supporting twenty-four new languages, thanks to our wonderful community contributors. Version 0.11 also includes multiple new packaging options available via our [https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/releases/tag/0.11.0 releases page], making it easy for developers to install and use WebThings Gateway on several Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora Linux versions as well as Arch Linux and (of course) our existing [https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/releases/tag/0.11.0 Raspberry Pi] and [https://hub.docker.com/r/mozillaiot/gateway Docker] images. Check out Michael Stegeman’s [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/webthings-gateway-goes-global/ Hacks blog post] for more info.
* '''WASM for PDF''' -- Adobe published an [https://medium.com/adobetech/acrobat-on-the-web-powered-by-webassembly-782385e4947e article] on their use of WebAssembly to bring Adobe’s performant and pixel-perfect rendering on the Web through their Document Cloud View SDK, which does all PDF rendering and viewing on the client’s browser. To quote Adobe “PDF documents are a major part of our digital lives and, in an era where we spend most of our time working inside a web browser, enhancing the PDF experience on the web is crucial for providing a seamless, multi-device experience.” You can read more details about how Adobe achieved such “fun and amazing” results in their post, as well as ideas for more they can do in the future with WASM.
== February 10th, 2020 ==
* '''Discord Adopts Rust''' -- Last week Discord [https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f announced] they were switching from Go to Rust. For some time they’ve been trying to overcome serious performance and scalability issues in a service at the heart of Discord’s user experience. Encouraged by their experiences with Rust in other areas they rewrote that critical service from Go to Rust and were delighted at the results. Their [https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f blog post] provides rich detail on their service architecture and migration process, and the substantial improvements they gained from adopting Rust.
