Build a Hamilton Song Recommendation SMS Bot with Machine Learning

Hamilton the Musical will start streaming on Disney Plus this Friday, so happy Hamilfilm week! To celebrate, learn how to build a SMS chatbot that recommends the Hamilton song most relevant to you right now using Twilio Programmable SMS and Functions, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, and JavaScript.

See it in-action: text how you’re feeling to +13364295064. The longer and more descriptive your message is, the more data the app has to analyze what Hamilton song you need now! Read Now

#chatbots

Jira is a microcosm of what’s broken in software development

This blog is not about how Jira is too complex and over-engineered with features I don’t need.

Those complaints are well articulated by others.

… Over the years I have arrived at the conclusion that Jira contradicts my values as a member of a dev team. It represents a way of thinking and working that goes against my beliefs. Read More

#devops

Simplifying GRUs, LSTM and RNNs in General

This article discusses how sequence models work and some of their application.

Sequence models are a special class of deep neural networks that have applications in machine translation, speech recognition, image captioning, music generation, etc. Sequence problems can be of varying types where the input X and output Y might both be sequences with either the same length or different lengths. It can also be that only one of X or Y is a sequence. Read More

#recurrent-neural-networks

GPT-3, explained: This new language AI is uncanny, funny — and a big deal

Last month, OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence research lab, announced the arrival of the newest version of an AI system it had been working on that can mimic human language, a model called GPT-3.

In the weeks that followed, people got the chance to play with the program. If you follow news about AI, you may have seen some headlines calling it a huge step forward, even a scary one.

I’ve now spent the past few days looking at GPT-3 in greater depth and playing around with it. I’m here to tell you: The hype is real. It has its shortcomings, but make no mistake:GPT-3 represents a tremendous leap for AI. Read More

#nlp

Architectures Every Data Scientist And Big Data Engineer Should Know

Comprehensive and Comparative List of Feature Store Architectures for Data Scientists and Big Data Professionals.

Feature store has become an important unit of organizations developing predictive services across any industry domain.

… This blog post highlights the features supported by different Feature Store frameworks, that are primarily developed by different leading industry giants. Read More

#devops, #mlaas, #big7