Developers are the heart of Algorithmia's marketplace: every day, you create and share amazing algorithms, build upon and remix each others' work, and provide critical feedback which helps us to improve as a service. Thanks to you, we have over 4500 algorithms and 60,000 individuals working...
Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Software
We've all heard about racial bias in artificial intelligence via the media, whether it's found in recidivism software or object detection that mislabels African American people as Gorillas. Due to the increase in the media attention, people have grown more aware that implicit bias occurring in...
Understanding Facial Recognition Through OpenFace
Facial recognition has become an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives.
Today smartphones use facial recognition for access control while animated movies such as Avatar use it to bring realistic movement and expression to life. Police surveillance cameras use...
Extending Alexa's AI with Algorithmia Microservices
Amazon reports that there are now "tens of millions" of Alexa-enabled devices in use, from the compact Echo Dot to the revamped Alexa-enabled Fire Stick and Kindle. Voice-enabled devices are hotter than ever, but would be nearly useless without the wide variety of external services they rely on....
Introduction to Serverless Microservices
It used to be that the big eat the small -- today the fast beat the slow. Fast teams keep their talent engaged, ship faster, and beat the competition to market. Microservices let you increase your engineering speed and agility.
Using microservices allowed SoundCloud to reduce a standard release...
Advanced Image Manipulation and Data Extraction
A good image editor has a wide variety of features, from simple resizing to advanced photo manipulation. A good software platform needs similar tools as well, and when run in a scalable serverless environment, can include a variety of powerful image-transformation and data-extraction algorithms...
Bringing AI to your Workflow without Code: Stamplay adds Algorithmia
Automatically follow every Twitter user who speaks well of your product. Monitor Stripe purchases and pre-order products to meet expected demand. Reblog every cute kitten photo sent to your GMail.
What would you do if you could connect any service in the world with any other service, and harness...
Getting Started with Algorithmia in Spark
Apache Spark is one of the most useful tools for large scale data processing. It allows for data ingestion, aggregation, analysis and more on massive amounts of data and has been widely adopted by data engineers and other professionals.
With Spark Streaming and Spark SQL you can perform ETL...
Advanced grammar and Natural Language Processing with Syntaxnet
Lets play a game: can you tell the difference between these two sentences?
"Most of the time, travellers worry about their luggage."
"Most of the time travellers worry about their luggage."
Whoa, remove the comma and all of a sudden we're having an entirely different conversation!
The little...