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Building Conversational and Text Interfaces Using Amazon Lex
At the recent AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon introduced a preview of their deep learning technology called Amazon Lex which can be used to build conversational interfaces using voice and text. Amazon Lex is powered on the same deep learning technology as Alexa, which is used in the portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Amazon Echo speaker.
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CommAI, a Training and Testing AI System by Facebook
Facebook recently announced CommAI-env, a platform for training and evaluating an AI system. Inspired by A roadmap towards Machine Intelligence the system aims for teaching intelligent agents general learning capabilities that would serve as the groundwork for further, more specialized training by human or machine level interaction. The article provides a high level overview of current state and..
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Facebook Open Sources Yarn, a JavaScript Package Manager
Facebook has open sourced Yarn, a proxy package manager for JavaScript modules stored on npm or Bower registries.
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How Facebook Redesigned the HHVM JIT Compiler for Performance
In the Summer of 2013, Facebook engineers started a major redesign of the HHVM JIT compiler that brought an overall 15% reduction of CPU usage on Facebook’s web servers. Facebook engineer Guilherme Ottoni has recently described how Facebook achieved that result by backing profile-guided optimizations (PGO) into their JIT compiler.
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Microsoft Pushes the Bot Framework, Google Buys API.ai
Microsoft has made available Bot Framework Preview to developers and Google has purchased API.ai, a bot engine with many integrations.
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Facebook Open-Sources New Compression Algorithm Outperforming Zlib
The new Zstandard 1.0 compression algorithm, recently open sourced by Facebook, is one of the few compression algorithms that is both faster and more efficient than zlib, the current “reigning standard”, write Facebook engineer Yann Collet and Chip Turner.
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Facebook Open-Sources Deep Learning Project Torchnet
Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research laboratory open-sources the Torchnet project to package and optimize boiler plate deep learning code for reuse and plugin-ability.
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Facebook Announces Open-Source Swift SDK Beta for iOS
Now available in beta, Facebook’s new SDK for Swift aims to make it easier for developers to integrate Facebook services into their iOS apps.
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Microsoft Supports React Native on UWP, Adds Tooling to VS Code
Microsoft and Facebook have announced that the Universal Windows Platform will be the next platform to support React Native. Aiding developers build React Native apps on Windows, Microsoft also released a React Native extension for Visual Studio Code that provides debugging and IntelliSense in their cross-platform code editor.
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Facebook Wants to Replace Apps with Bots
Facebook has opened up the Messenger Platform to be integrated with chatbots performing various tasks.
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How Facebook Designed its Android App for Emerging Markets
In order to fulfill its vision of connecting the Earth, Facebook has designed its Facebook Lite app for Android to make it optimized for use in emerging markets, Facebook engineer Gautam Roy explained.
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Facebook Turns React.js Version Up to 15
Seeking to inspire more confidence in the stability of the React.js JavaScript library, Facebook has bumped the version number from 0.14 to 15.0.
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Facebook Open Sourcing AI Hardware Design
Facebook recently announced open sourcing hardware design for its custom designed Open Rack compatible hardware. Attributing advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to richer data sets and more powerful GPU-based systems, Facebook is unveiling its next generation systems code-named “Big Sur”, after the synonymous location in California.
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How Facebook Improved their iOS App Start Time
Facebook engineer Natansh Verma explained how they managed to reduce the launch time of the Facebook app for iOS and shave a few seconds off by streamlining their dependencies and using UDP priming.
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Facebook's and Twitter's SDKs for Apple tvOS Enable Onboarding and Analytics
Facebook and Twitter have released SDKs for Apple tvOS to provide support for onboarding, user verification, and analytics.