Technology

July 29, 2025 Ryan welcomes Mahir Yavuz, Senior Director of Engineering at Etsy, to the show to explore the unique challenges that Etsy’s marketplace faces and how Etsy’s teams leverage machine learning and AI to manage product SKUs, enrich inventory metadata, and improve both buyer and seller experiences. Source link

By some metrics, research on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has progressed substantially in the past 2 years. Practical improvements to image synthesis models are being made almost too quickly to keep up with: Odena et al., 2016 Miyato et al., 2017 Zhang et al., 2018 Brock et al., 2018 However, by other metrics, less has […]

A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of […]

Last weekend, I wrote a bit about using Zapier to load Notion pages as prompts to comment on other Notion pages. That worked well enough, but not that well. This weekend I spent some time getting the next level of this working, creating an agent that runs as an AWS Lambda. This, among other things, […]

The streets of Tromaville, New Jersey are calling once again as the video game adaptation of the off-the-wall cartoon series Toxic Crusaders gets a release date. Seen in an official trailer from Retroware that was shown off during San Diego Comic-Con and shared online by IGN, the Toxic Crusaders game is releasing on December 4 […]