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A Word on Credit Card Hacking If you know me, or have read my previous post, you know that I worked for a very interesting company before joining Toptal. At this company, our payment provider proce More...

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Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world someday, and hopefully at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (AKA robotics developers) and help u More...

Machine Learning (ML) is coming into its own, with a growing recognition that ML can play a key role in a wide range of critical applications, such as data mining, natural language processing, image More...

The AI revolution is already transforming the consumer world.Sometimes, it’s in everyday ways like product recommendations, and sometimes it’s in magnificent ways: Cochlear implants, which provid More...