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"Whew! Fabulous post!"Michael Levin replied Dec 20, 2018 to Kotlin Thursdays - Static Web with Kotlin DSLs with John Burns |
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Dec 20, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
"Super! Can’t wait to work through it! "Michael Levin replied Nov 15, 2018 to Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 2 |
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Nov 15, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
"Wow, that’s exciting! Can’t wait to check them out this hurricane weekend! Thanks, A…"Michael Levin replied Oct 9, 2018 to KotlinConf 2018 Slides! |
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Oct 10, 2018 Reply by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
"Excellent! Thanks for sharing, Amanda!"Michael Levin replied Aug 23, 2018 to Chicago GDG Workshop on Kotlin and TornadoFX - recap! |
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Aug 23, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Uber Improves Restaurant Recommendations Using Real-Time Signals and Listwise Ranking
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwise GenRec for improved contextual ranking and real-time personalization.
By Leela KumiliInfoQ Launches Online AI Engineering Cohort and Certification for Senior Software Practitioners
InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs.
By Artenisa ChatziouDiscord Rebuilds Database Operations Around Automation to Manage ScyllaDB at Massive Scale
Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), enabling its small infrastructure team to automate large-scale ScyllaDB cluster management tasks that previously took days of manual work.
By Craig RisixAI Releases Grok Skills and Updates Tool Calling Responses API
xAI has released Grok Skills together with enhancements to the Responses API for Grok 4.3, enabling persistent custom expertise that the model retains across all conversations.
By Daniel DominguezCloudflare Completes Its Agent Infrastructure Stack with Browser Run Rebuild and Six-Layer Platform
Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers platform, delivering 4x higher concurrency and 50% faster response times. The upgrade completes a six-layer agent infrastructure stack: compute (Dynamic Workers + Sandboxes), orchestration (Dynamic Workflows), memory (Agent Memory), browsing (Browser Run), and commerce (Stripe Projects).
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