Switchboard-Affect: Emotion Perception Labels from Conversational Speech

Understanding the nuances of speech emotion dataset curation and labeling is essential for assessing speech emotion recognition (SER) model potential in real-world applications. Most training and evaluation datasets contain acted or pseudo-acted speech (e.g., podcast speech) in which emotion expressions may be exaggerated or otherwise intentionally modified. Furthermore, datasets labeled based on crowd perception often …

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Beyond Founder Mode: Mission Mode

Paul Graham’s “Founder Mode” paradigm misses the power of choosing missions that matter. Editor’s Note: In this blog post, Noam Perski reflects on his 15 years at Palantir and why “Mission Mode” — organizing companies around customer missions rather than founder involvement — is key to tackling problems that truly matter. Silicon Valley agrees that conventional management wisdom is destructive for …

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How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 1 — Ingesting and Processing Data…

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 1 — Ingesting and Processing Data Streams at Internet Scale Authors: Adrian Taruc and James Dalton This is the first entry of a multi-part blog series describing how we built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG). In Part 1, we will discuss the motivation for creating the RDG and the …

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How TP ICAP transformed CRM data into real-time insights with Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Ross Ashworth at TP ICAP. The ability to quickly extract insights from customer relationship management systems (CRMs) and vast amounts of meeting notes can mean the difference between seizing opportunities and missing them entirely. TP ICAP faced this challenge, having thousands of vendor meeting records stored in their CRM. Using …

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How Moloco is powering the future of retail media with AI Vector Search

The retail media landscape has reached an inflection point. What started as a way for retailers to monetize their digital real estate has become the fastest-growing segment of digital advertising, with projections showing 21.9% growth in 2025 and a three-year compound annual growth rate of 19.7% through 2027, according to Dentsu’s Global Ad Spend Forecasts …

Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym

We present SWE-Gym, the first environment for training real-world software engineering (SWE) agents. SWE-Gym contains 2,438 real-world Python task instances, each comprising a codebase with an executable runtime environment, unit tests, and a task specified in natural language. We use SWE-Gym to train language model based SWE agents, achieving up to 19% absolute gains in …

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Iterative fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock for strategic model improvement

Organizations often face challenges when implementing single-shot fine-tuning approaches for their generative AI models. The single-shot fine-tuning method involves selecting training data, configuring hyperparameters, and hoping the results meet expectations without the ability to make incremental adjustments. Single-shot fine-tuning frequently leads to suboptimal results and requires starting the entire process from scratch when improvements are …

Announcing prompt management in the Vertex AI SDK

As generative AI applications grow in sophistication, development workflows become more fragmented. Although AI can be a force multiplier, teams may design prompts in one environment, manage versions in spreadsheets or text files, and then manually integrate them into their code. This leads to inefficiencies, versioning chaos, and collaboration bottlenecks.  Vertex AI Studio is designed …