Tech

On Being a Data Science Intern

A snapshot of a summer at Knewton

First, a little background on me. At the start of my internship, I had just finished my second year as a PhD student in statistics at the University of Michigan. My research is split between modifying sequential…

Saving Money with Beautiful Soup and Hashing

How we automated (part of) our way into compliance with…

Higher Ed should learn from Silicon Valley. Not rush to repeat their mistakes.

How We Were Able to Quickly Write Java Clients for Our Microservices

In this post we will talk about how we were able to reduce the amount of time it takes to build client libraries for our Java HTTP services. We will introduce the connection library we built, the motivation…

What Are Knewton’s Knowledge Graphs?

A look into how Knewton represents content to power actionable…

Typescript Tips Series: Proper Typing of react-redux Connected Components

Knewton has been incrementally converting its front-end React and backend Node.js codebases to TypeScript. In this series we highlight pitfalls we have encountered along the way, lessons we’ve learned…

Code Review: The Most Important Conversation For Engineers

The “quality” of a codebase is difficult to define. Unlike precious metals or jewels, there is no standard rubric. Understanding quality requires experience and intuition, and even experienced software developers can have wildly…

Simplifying Cross-Browser Javascript Unit Testing

Written by Daniel Straus and Eric Garside

Javascript unit testing is complicated and expensive; unlike server-side logic, code that seems to work fine may execute differently on different browser/OS combinations, which…

Knerdlings: Improving Courses through Simulation

Written by Ashley Miller, Christopher Tang, David Kuntz, George Davis, Jesse St. Charles, John Davies and Sidharth Gupta

No two students are identical — they learn and forget at different rates, come from different…