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SoundCloudSoundCloud

Android Large Screen Optimization

Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to optimize the Android app for large screen devices. With the increasing use of devices like tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks, we decided to provide better support for them.

7/31/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

Sherlock AI Won AI Tinkerers Hackathon Using Cohere Rerank

A blogpost about how a team won an AI hackathon using Cohere Rerank, a neural reranking technique that enhances search precision with just a few lines of code.

7/31/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

Cohere For AI Scholars Program: Your Research Journey Starts Here

A research lab introducing the second cohort of the Cohere For AI Scholars Program for solving complex machine learning problems.

7/31/2023
AWS MLAWS ML

Is your model good? A deep dive into Amazon SageMaker Canvas advanced metrics

Exploring advanced metrics in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to evaluate model performance and understand customer behavior

7/31/2023
AWS MLAWS ML

Build protein folding workflows to accelerate drug discovery on Amazon SageMaker

Accelerate drug discovery by building protein folding workflows using Amazon SageMaker.

7/31/2023
DuolingoDuolingo

Why the word for "left" became a language taboo

Discover the history of the taboo around the word for 'left' and its connection to being left-handed.

7/31/2023
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action

RT-2 is a new vision-language-action model that translates knowledge from web and robotic data into generalised instructions for robotic control.

7/28/2023
DatabricksDatabricks

Best Practices and Guidance for Cloud Engineers to Deploy Databricks on AWS: Part 3

Best practices and guidance for deploying Databricks on AWS in the final part of the series.

7/28/2023
DropboxDropbox

Beta version of major SwiftyDropbox update available

A beta version of a major update for the Dropbox Swift SDK is now available, introducing significant new features.

7/28/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

Constructing Prompts for the Command Model

Techniques for constructing prompts for the Command model.

7/28/2023
DuolingoDuolingo

10 things I hate about… life before Duolingo

Exploring the improvements in language learning made possible by Duolingo.

7/28/2023
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action

Introduction to Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a vision-language-action (VLA) model that translates knowledge from web and robotics data into generalised instructions for robotic control, showcasing improved generalisation capabilities and rudimentary reasoning abilities.

7/28/2023