Developers Image Data Use Case Tutorials Stock Image Similarity with Image Features (or How a Program is More Fashionable than Me) January 11, 2016 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Recognizing patterns comes naturally to us. Whether weāre learning a new language, guessing the artist of a song weāre hearing for the first time, or even recognising an old friend, our brains use patterns to simplify complex mental tasks. In fact, our brains are so hardwired to use pattern recognition as a shortcut, we even […] Read more Ā»
Developers Machine Learning Tutorials Sentiment HQ Sets a New Accuracy Standard December 15, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev “Cutting edge.” It’s usually one of those overused phrases scattered all over company websites to add some marketing pizazz. Everything you see here is on the cutting edge. Yet, it’s perfect for describing Sentiment HQ, one of our newest machine learning models. If you’re not too sure what “sentiment analysis” is, it basically involves using […] Read more Ā»
Developers Opinion Piece The Magic of Hackathons November 4, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev There’s nothing quite like a hackathon. From the second you walk in the door, there’s a special kind of electricity all around the room. Hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered for the sole purpose of bettering themselves and building a project they can be proud of. Somewhere between the frantic sounds of […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Analyzing the Republican Presidential Candidates with Machine Learning October 28, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Well, hello. Fancy meeting you here. Yes, it’s Julie here again to tell you more about our amazing APIs and how you can use them yourself. Did you miss me last week? Do anything exciting? Maybe adopt a new cat? I got Jack new cat stairs so he doesn’t have to try to jump onto […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Machine Learning What Even is Sentiment Analysis? September 23, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Machine learning is an incredibly frothy space. It almost seems like every week there’s some new company using machine learning in some revolutionary new way. With all of the deep learning, data mining, and artificial intelligence buzzwords floating around, it can be extremely difficult to separate the signal from the noise. This is not one […] Read more Ā»
Data Science Developers Machine Learning Opinion Piece Three Thought-Provoking Ideas from SIGGRAPH ’15 September 8, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Last month Alec Radford and I had the great pleasure of attending the SIGGRAPH 2015 conference in Los Angeles. If you don’t know about SIGGRAPH, here’s a quick snippet from their website: “Since its beginning in 1974 as a small group of specialists in a previously unknown discipline, ACM SIGGRAPH has evolved to become an international […] Read more Ā»
Data Science Developers Machine Learning Neural Image Captioning for Mortals September 2, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Introduction to Neural Image Captioning Image Captioning is a damn hard problem — one of those frontier-AI problems that defy what we think computers can really do. This summer, I had an opportunity to work on this problem for the Advanced Development team during my internship at indico. The work I did was fascinating but not revolutionary […] Read more Ā»
Data Science Developers Machine Learning Visualizing with t-SNE August 25, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Data visualization A big part of working with data is getting intuition on what those data show. Staring at raw data points, especially when there are many of them, is almost never the correct way to tackle a problem. Low dimensional data are easy to visually inspect. You can simply pick pairs of dimensions and […] Read more Ā»
Developers New API Approaching: Facial Localization July 24, 2015 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev What’s this Facial Localization? Facial localization is a brand spanking new API we are releasing and integrating into our older offerings. In short, you give it a picture, we give you the locations of the faces in the picture, saving you from writing a bunch of gross image code. VP Joe Biden appreciating the […] Read more Ā»
