
As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our lives grows, it is becoming increasingly important for practitioners and innovators to consider a broader range of perspectives when building ML models and applications. This desire is driving the need for a more flexible and scalable ML infrastructure.
SESpotify Engineering·February 1, 2023AI & ML 
Historical tutorial for a GPT-3 Twitter bio generator. For new AI apps on Vercel, use Vercel Functions with Fluid compute and streaming.

How do we design effective reviews and ratings? With a distribution chart, decimal scores, tags, recommendation score and unedited product photos.
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Vitaly Friedman·January 25, 2023AI & ML 
Deploying AI-driven apps on Vercel is easier than ever before. Here's some templates and tooling to jump-start your AI application.

In this episode, we ask whether technology is making us redundant; will we all soon be replaced with AI? Vitaly Friedman talks to Tejas Kumar to find out.
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Drew Mclellan·January 24, 2023AI & ML 
In this article, Keima Kai provides a brief history of AI in web design, explores its current implications for creativity, and offers suggestions for how web designers can stay ahead of the curve.
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Keima Kai·December 12, 2022AI & ML 
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month.
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Shuyin Zhao·December 7, 2022AI & ML 
Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more.
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Seth Juarez·November 22, 2022AI & ML 
We will begin to introduce several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot in 2023 to continue delivering responsible innovation and true happiness at the keyboard.
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Ryan J. Salva·November 1, 2022AI & ML 
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
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Mike Linksvayer·October 14, 2022AI & ML 
Owing to tremendous advancements in Machine Learning and other technologies, chatbots have increased in popularity in the past few years. This article will show you, step by step, how to build a chatbot that meets your business goals.
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Devansh Bansal·October 7, 2022AI & ML 
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus.
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Elise Hollowed, Andrew Rice·September 8, 2022AI & ML 
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
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Eirini Kalliamvakou·September 7, 2022AI & ML 
Slack, as a product, presents many opportunities for recommendation, where we can make suggestions to simplify the user experience and make it more delightful. Each one seems like a terrific use case for machine learning, but it isn’t realistic for us to create a bespoke solution for each. Instead, we developed a unified framework we…
KNKatrina Ni·September 6, 2022AI & ML 
Data Generation and Augmentation methods to train an effective machine learning WAF

Our journey building a message classification model for Shopify Inbox with the data-centric approach, from defining our classification taxonomy to training our annotators on labeling.
SEShopify Engineering·July 21, 2022AI & ML 
We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.
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Albert Ziegler·July 14, 2022AI & ML 
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
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Thomas Dohmke·June 21, 2022AI & ML 
What the research is: Federated learning with differential privacy (FL-DP) is one of the latest privacy-enhancing technologies being evaluated at Meta as we constantly work to enhance user privacy and further safeguard users’ data in the products we design, build, and maintain. FL-DP enhances privacy in two important ways: It allows machine learning (ML) models […]

Merlin, Shopify’s machine learning platform that can handle different (often conflicting) requirements, inputs, data types, dependencies, and integrations.
SEShopify Engineering·April 6, 2022AI & ML 
GitHub Copilot is now available from Visual Studio 2022 for everyone in the technical preview.
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Martin Woodward·March 29, 2022AI & ML 
If you’re a data scientist on a product team, much of your work involves getting a product ready for release. You may conduct exploratory data analyses to understand your product’s market, or build the data models and pipelines needed to power a new product feature, or design a machine learning model.
SEShopify Engineering·March 23, 2022AI & ML 
How Cloudflare has evolved our Machine Learning models to identify automated traffic in mobile apps

Today we are excited to complement managed rulesets (such as OWASP and Cloudflare Managed) with a new tool aimed at identifying bypasses and malicious payloads without human involvement, and before they are exploited

RKRachel Kroll·February 28, 2022AI & ML 
Today we launched new code scanning analysis features powered by machine learning. The experimental analysis finds more of the most common types of vulnerabilities.
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Tiferet Gazit, Alona Hlobina·February 17, 2022AI & ML 
Through our experience building our first few models, Shopify Data carved out a pragmatic step-by-step guide that has enabled us to successfully scale machine learning across our organization.
SEShopify Engineering·February 11, 2022AI & ML 
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
HSHigh Scalability·January 25, 2022AI & ML 
Every once in a while, we publish [freebies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies) related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, everyone will be able to find their own use case for these icons in particular. Today, we present to you three icon sets designed by the creative folks at GraphicSurf — all free for personal and commercial use.
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Anton Tyschenko·January 18, 2022AI & ML 
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
HSHigh Scalability·January 17, 2022AI & ML 
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
HSHigh Scalability·January 11, 2022AI & ML 
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
HSHigh Scalability·January 3, 2022AI & ML 
Building platforms is a hard business. Building platforms for discerning machine learning (ML) practitioners with bespoke needs and a do-it-yourself ethos is even harder. In today’s post, we will give you a peek into how we built ML Home, the internal user interface for Spotify’s Machine Learning Platform, and the product lessons we learned along the way in our quest to entrench it in Spotify’s ML
MLMaisha Lopa, Sr. Product Manager·January 1, 2022AI & ML 
You’ve probably seen the “Data Science Hierarchy of Needs” (pictured below) before. Inspired by Maslow, it shows the tooling you would use at different levels in data science—from logging and user-generated content at the bottom, to AI and deep learning at the very top. While hierarchies like this one can serve as helpful guides, at Shopify, we don’t think it always captures the whole picture. For
SEShopify Engineering·December 21, 2021AI & ML 
Just the first sentence alone here from Stepanie Yee and Tony Chu is solid:
CCChris Coyier·December 17, 2021AI & ML 
I read a recent Smashing Magazine post that included a recommendation for Hygen. I just happen to be doing quite a bit of new UI work in a Next.js app and the
CCChris Coyier·December 13, 2021AI & ML 
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypothe
HSHigh Scalability·December 13, 2021AI & ML 
Are you ready for the countdown to Christmas? From [festive](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/freebie-christmas-advent-icon-set-25-icons-ai-eps-svg-png-pdf/) [icon](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/freebie-christmas-icons-illustrations/) [sets](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/11/freebie-christmas-icon-set-ai-psd-eps-pdf-svg-png/) to advent calendars that are bound to sweeten
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Iris Ljesnjanin·December 2, 2021AI & ML 
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but it may actually be more accurate to say there are 381 million individual versions of Spotify, each one filled with different Home pages, playlists, and recommendations. But with a library of over 70 million tracks to thumb through, how do our ML models actually go about m
SESpotify Engineering·December 1, 2021AI & ML 
Due to the nature of CodePen — namely, hosting code and an incredibly popular embedding feature, allowing developers to share their CodePen “pens” around the world — any sort of optimization can have a massive impact on CodePen’s business.

In this study, we prove how Shopify Capital (one of our first machine learning products) has real-world impact by making merchant funding accessible.
SEShopify Engineering·November 11, 2021AI & ML 
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality music and podcasts on the Home page. In this two-part blog series, we will talk about the ML models we build and use to recommend diverse and fulfilling content to our listeners, and the lessons we’ve learned from building the ML stack that serves these models.
AEAnnie Edmundson, Engineer·November 1, 2021AI & ML 
In of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to recommend content on Home, including:
AEAnnie Edmundson, Engineer·November 1, 2021AI & ML 
Every once in a while, we publish [freebies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies/) related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, every designer will be able to find their own use case and contribute to saving lives. Free for personal and commercial use. [Get the free icon pack](https://smashingmagazine.com/provide/smashing-freebie-coronavirus-covid19.zi
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Anton Tyschenko·October 7, 2021AI & ML 
We share five steps on approaching machine learning from a business perspective that helped to build and scale our suite of machine learning products.
SEShopify Engineering·August 25, 2021AI & ML 
Word-of-mouth recommendation is an incredibly desirable way to win work. It requires zero marketing efforts and typically converts at a higher rate as your agency has been recommended. However, you should never rely on word of mouth alone. Many web design agencies consider it a badge of honor that they win work exclusively through word-of-mouth recommendations. In this article, Paul Boag explains

Training AI models at a large scale isn’t easy. Aside from the need for large amounts of computing power and resources, there is also considerable engineering complexity behind training very large models. At Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Engineering, we have been working on building tools and infrastructure to make training large AI models easier. Our […]

GitHub Copilot: Parrot or Crow? A first look at rote learning in GitHub Copilot suggestions.
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Albert Ziegler·June 30, 2021AI & ML 
Today, we’re launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.
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Nat Friedman·June 29, 2021AI & ML 
What it is: A new library to analyze time series data. Kats is a lightweight, easy-to-use, and generalizable framework for generic time series analysis, including forecasting, anomaly detection, multivariate analysis, and feature extraction/embedding. To the best of our knowledge, Kats is the first comprehensive Python library for generic time series analysis, which provides both classical […] Rea
MEMeta Engineering·June 21, 2021AI & ML 
To help anyone build AI-based applications Cloudflare is extending the Workers platform to include support for NVIDIA GPUs and TensorFlow. Soon you’ll be able to build AI-based applications that run across the Cloudflare network using pre-built or custom models for inference.
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John Graham Cumming·April 13, 2021AI & ML 
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used […]

This post features a guest interview with Diego M. Oppenheimer, CEO at Algorithmia Over the past few years, machine learning has grown in adoption within the enterprise. More organizations are…
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GitHub Partnerships·March 11, 2021AI & ML 
Hey, it's HighScalability time once again! Amazon converts expenses into revenue by transforming needs into products. Take a look at a fulfillment center and you can see the need for Outpost, machine learning, IoT, etc, all dogfooded. Willy Wonka would be proud. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one
HSHigh Scalability·February 1, 2021AI & ML 
In this article, we explain how to build an integrated and interactive data visualization layer into an application with Cumul.io. To do so, we’ve built a
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Geoff Graham·January 28, 2021AI & ML 
What makes a good chatbot experience? Most people think of witty responses and machine learning, but the basis of a chatbot UX is actually rooted in content strategy. In this article Marli Mesibov will answer those questions and identify what you as a content designer can do to make your chatbot successful. A poor chatbot simply says “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” on repeat (or worse “error”.) A
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Marli Mesibov·January 28, 2021AI & ML 
In this episode, we’re talking about Machine Learning. What sort of tasks can we put it to within a web development context? Drew McLellan talks to expert Charlie Gerard to find out.
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Drew Mclellan·January 12, 2021AI & ML 
One of the biggest questions faced by the recommendation systems community is whether recommendation systems should be solely evaluated by their predictive accuracy, or also focus on other factors such as preference broadening. In order to appreciate the importance of this question, let us look at a couple of simulated scenarios in a dynamic setting. User […]
CWChris Wiltz·December 17, 2020AI & ML 
The GitHub Archive Program announces its latest milestone: storing collections of the most popular and depended upon open source repositories in beautiful art cases featuring 3D-printed and AI-generated artwork in significant libraries around the world.
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Julia Metcalf·November 19, 2020AI & ML 
Check out our twenty-first edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.
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Connor Peshek·October 31, 2020AI & ML