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Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig

We sat down with Bryan Helmig, the CTO and founder of Zapier, to talk APIs and interoperability, and learn more about the company’s first-ever public API: Natural Language Actions (NLA).

Technical Interview

Garry Tan

3/22/2023

How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.

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Marcelo Cortes

10/25/2022

How to Use Responsive Images

In the world of responsive web design one core, yet complicated, spec can net you substantial reductions in page size across the device spectrum. ...

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Marcelo Cortes

4/28/2017

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From edge2cat to edge2anything with TensorFlow

by Dan Whitenack4/14/2017

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you have likely seen Christopher Hesse’s demo of image-to-image translation (a Tensorflow port of pix2pix by Isola et al.). In case you missed it, search for edge2cat, and a whole new world of cat-infused artificial intelligence will be opened to you. The model is trained on cat images, and it can translate hand drawn cats to realistic images of cats! Here are a few of our personal favorite “edge” image to cat translations generated by Chris’s model, ranging from accurate to horrifying: