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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
AirbnbAirbnb

Building Airbnb Categories with ML & Human in the Loop

The machine learning behind Airbnb's Categories feature.

3/22/2023
LyftLyft

lyft2vec — Embeddings at Lyft

This blogpost discusses how Lyft uses graph learning methods to generate embeddings and shares interesting rideshare insights uncovered by embeddings of riders, drivers, locations, and time.

3/22/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

McKinsey QuantumBlack experts: exciting foundation model future

Exploring trends in enterprise ML and the potential of foundation models to change the industry, including examples of companies leveraging them and the risks and complexities involved.

3/21/2023
The New York TimesThe New York Times

Day in the Life of a Senior Analyst in the Data and Insights Group

A glimpse into the daily routine of a senior analyst in the Data and Insights Group, supporting the Storytelling and Publishing mission at the New York Times.

3/20/2023
OpenAIOpenAI

GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models

Exploring the labor market impact potential of large language models

3/17/2023
RobloxRoblox

The Tech Stack for the Metaverse

Exploring the discussion between Roblox CTO and Stripe CTO about the tech stack for the Metaverse at DeveloperWeek.

3/17/2023
InstacartInstacart

Distributed Machine Learning at Instacart

Exploring how Instacart utilizes distributed Machine Learning to efficiently train thousands of models in production using the Ray computation framework.

3/17/2023
Stability AIStability AI

Stable Diffusion Reimagine

A new Clipdrop tool, Stable Diffusion Reimagine, generates multiple variations of a single image without limits by allowing users to upload an image into the algorithm.

3/17/2023
OpenAIOpenAI

GPTs are GPTs: An early look at the labor market impact potential of large language models

Analyzing the potential impact of large language models on the labor market

3/17/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

LandingLens: the struggle for and value of democratized AI

LandingLens is an ML platform that democratizes AI for non-engineers in industries like manufacturing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, by reducing inspection costs, improving quality, and optimizing ML platform setups.

3/16/2023
UberUber

Setting Uber’s Transactional Data Lake in Motion with Incremental ETL Using Apache Hudi

Improving the performance of Uber's batch ETL pipelines using Apache Hudi for incremental data processing.

3/16/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Cohere’s Alammar encourages effective strategy for Generative AI

Cohere's Alammar discusses the effective strategy for Generative AI, including text and image generation models, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented language models.

3/15/2023