Instagram used some crafty coding tricks to create an impression of lightning-fast performance to the user.
They have learned coding tricks, automated multiple MPC design techniques as well as robustness best practices that they wanted to share with the industrial and academic world.
There are plenty of Web design coding tricks that look oh-so-sexy in Internet Explorer for Windows, but another browser like Netscape 4.0 might render the page unviewable.
It never behaved like the costlier, commercially available products from big-name vendors, and it required lots of patience for dealing with quirks and knowledge of some arcane coding tricks.
It is well-known that coding tricks allow one to do classical mathematics without ever going above cardinality c: for example, the class of all functions from the reals to the reals, is too large to be even a proper class here, but the class of continuous functions is of cardinality c.
But over time the signs got taken down, or replaced with sheets of complicated code problems (learning new coding tricks while you void your nethers being just one of many uniquely strange things about working in tech).
Neural versions of this predictive coding trick benefit, however, from an important added dimension: the use of a stacked hierarchy of processing stages.
Ironically, Icahn claims that he's pursuing his plan for altruistic purposes: he wants to end an epidemic of corporate "inversions," another tax-code trick that essentially allows American corporations to dodge their taxes by changing their address to an offshore location, usually a tax haven.
Author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Trick or Treatment?
