Sift is passionate about education, collaboration, and empowering innovation. Last month, Sift partnered with Advancing Women in Product to host an event at our new office in Downtown Seattle. This was also the first event for AWIP’s newly-founded Seattle...
On April 19, 2017 the newly-opened Seattle Sift Science Research and Development Office hosted its first public speaking event: Alex Paino, Keren Gu and Jacob Burnim presented at an Applied Machine Learning at Scale Meetup Event. It was a “sold-out”...
At Sift Science, we protect online businesses from fraud and abuse. We do this by processing lots of data sent to us by our customers, building machine learned models that are updated online in real-time, and surfacing risk scores...
We’re very proud to sponsor Startup ML’s conference on Putting Deep Learning into Production, being held Jan 21, 2017. While we won’t be presenting this time, we’re excited to see the presentations dealing with the large-scale and complexity of effectively...
A few weeks ago, I attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration as a technical speaker. There, I presented twice, sharing some findings from my research work on human-robot interaction. I walked away from the conference having learned two new...
We really love tech talks.At Sift Science, sharing knowledge and facilitating great discussion are two of our favorite things (just behind fraud-fighting, board games, ML, and really beautiful data visualization). In that vein, we've been delighted to host...
This week, we hosted the first session of our new summer speaking series (Turn Up The Bayes). I gave a talk on how we leverage a distributed database, HBase, to power an infrastructure that enables performant, distributed...
At Sift Science, APIs are incredibly important. We spend a lot of timeimproving upon our existing APIs and thinking about how to design even better ones. A couple of weeks ago at theSan Francisco API...
We recently hosted our first ever HBase meetup! This was a very exciting event for us as it was the first time we showed off some of the great infrastructure and systems we've built to power...