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October 11th, 2021
What does it mean to be an Engineering Buddy at Rasa?
Mark Jacob
We recently set up an Engineering Buddy Program for new engineers joining Rasa (hint hint - https://rasa.com/careers/) and I’ve written this beautiful blog post to tell you all about it. If you have more in depth questions about the engineering team, our tech stack, our culture or anything else, feel free to reach out to me @mjaycub for any questions or check out the Rasa blog at https://rasa.com/blog/!
October 8th, 2021
Let’s Talk about TensorFlow 2.6
Vincent Warmerdam
Rasa will upgrade from Tensorflow 2.3 to Tensorflow 2.6 as of Rasa Open Source version 2.8.9. In this blog post, we’d like to highlight why the upgrade is needed and we’d also like to advise users on what to expect. The upgrade is required due to security concerns but it may have consequences on training times in the short term.
October 7th, 2021
Welcoming Our 100th Team Member (And Our New Phase)
Linda Schuster
In 2020, we set the company goal to become an industry leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In our path to becoming a more international, remote-first company, inclusivity plays a big part in our values, leading to our growth and expansion.
October 5th, 2021
Am I Allergic to This? Voice Assistant for Sight Impaired People
Angus Addlesee
Angus and his team developed textual VQA components to accurately understand what a user is asking, extract relevant text from images in an intelligent manner, and to provide natural language answers that build upon the context of previous questions. As their system is created to be assistive, they designed it with a particular focus on privacy, transparency, and controllability.
October 4th, 2021
Explore Rasa APIs with Postman
Vincent Warmerdam
To help developers interact with our Rasa APIs we've recently created a workspace on Postman that comes with all of our API endpoints pre-filled. In this blog post, we'll explain what this will enable you to do.
October 1st, 2021
New Livestream: Rasa Community Showcase
Emma Jade Wightman
We have another brand new regular stream on our YouTube channel - The Rasa Community Showcase!
September 29th, 2021
Announcing the Rasa Learning Center
Vincent Warmerdam
We are extremely excited to announce the Rasa Learning Center. The Rasa Learning Center is the place to learn anything related to Rasa, as well as topics in Machine Learning and NLP. It hosts courses with step-by-step videos lessons together with code-snippets that makes it easy for anyone to learn Conversational AI at their own pace for free.
September 17th, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Aciel Eshky
Aciel Eshky
Today we’re talking with Aciel Eshky, Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Rasa. We’ll learn Aciel’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
September 13th, 2021
Announcing the "Understanding Rasa Deployments" Course
Vincent Warmerdam
We are *very* excited to announce our brand new course on "Understanding Rasa Deployments". It’s being made available on Youtube as a 8-episode series and you’ll see new episodes appear on Youtube as of today.
August 13th, 2021
The Humans Behind the Bots: Anca Lita
Rasa
Today we’re talking with Anca, Junior Software Engineer at Rasa. We’ll learn Anca’s story and explore the day-to-day projects and technologies they’re passionate about.
August 12th, 2021
Non-English Tools for Rasa NLU
Vincent Warmerdam
The Rasa community spans the globe, so we often get questions on optimising a Rasa pipeline for a wide variety of languages. Rasa is…
August 5th, 2021
Custom Rasa NLU Docker Containers
Vincent Warmerdam
Detecting a frequently asked question is useful for a virtual assistant, but it can also be useful as an API for customer service.
August 2nd, 2021
Prioritise Labelling with the UnexpecTEDIntentPolicy
Vincent Warmerdam
In this blogpost we introduce the UnexpecTEDIntentPolicy, which was released as part of Rasa 2.8. This policy makes it easy to find unexpected intents in a conversation, which help prioritise which conversations to label first.
July 30th, 2021
Announcing the Conversational AI with Rasa series
Justina Petraitytė
We are extremely excited to announce our brand new series on our Rasa Youtube channel - Conversational AI with Rasa. It’s a 14-episode series focused on developing AI assistants with Rasa Open Source (version 2.x and later).
July 22nd, 2021
Conditional Response Variations: Technical Blog
Christopher Kedzie
Anca Lita
As part of the Rasa Open Source 2.6 release, we introduced a new feature called conditional response variations which allows slot-values to determine when a particular response variation is used by your bot.