Part 2: Embeddings space analysis and cross-lingual representations — In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the machine learning engine that powers the Rude Message Detector, the Badoo app’s fully-multilingual toxicity detector designed to protect our community from harmful messaging.

Part 1: introduction, model’s design and production infrastructure — As we all know — words are powerful. They can be used to lift people up, but sometimes are intended to cause harm. At Bumble Inc.— the parent company that operates Badoo and Bumble, two of the world’s highest-grossing dating apps with millions of users worldwide — we believe it’s…

Merging to master and sleeping at night — At HousingAnywhere, we are using dbt and Snowflake to model our data in order to offer meaningful views and materializations to our business analysts and data scientists. Our data warehouse is populated with raw structured data coming from a wide variety of different sources, the majority of which are replicated…

A reliable CI/CD without reinventing the wheel — Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform developed by Airbnb and now maintained by Apache. It is basically cron on steroids [1], with the theoretical ability of scaling without limits, completely abstracting the complexity of this feature to the final users. You just write the code, decide when it has…

Working from home, smart lockdowns and baking powder — Some weeks ago I received an email from a recruiter (probably, if this was you and you are not a recruiter, sorry) saying “Hope you are good in these crazy times”. I liked it, and since then, this has been the first sentence of all the cold emails I’m sending…

A personal and honest review — The first proper gift I asked for when I was a child was a computer, a black MacBook when the cheap ones were in plastic and the expensive ones were in aluminium. As hard as I try to escape from the definition, this shapes me as an engineer more than…

Behind RentRadar, the new AI tool by HousingAnywhere — Just some 10 years ago, it was pretty common to rely on people for the answer to any question of general knowledge. Do you know where I can find a plumber? Do you know at what time the shops close today? And the list goes on. Today, it is indeed…

A step-by-step approach that worked fine — I am probably a Machine Learning Engineer. This field is quite new and all the job titles are pretty much a joke to me. The boundaries between a Data Scientist, an AI Specialist or a ML Engineer are quite blurred, and the one that you choose to put on your…

A very long post about the Turing Test — In his world-famous 1980 “Minds, brains, and programs”, the American philosopher John R. Searle has demonstrated in an elegant and unambiguous way that the execution of an algorithm (no matter how complex it is) isn’t a sufficient condition to have understanding. In his Gedankenexperiment, the Chinese Room Argument (CRA), he…