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Builder AI vs Shopify: Which is best? Ultimately, it’s hard to give a clear answer – because they’re both very different platforms, with specific benefits.

Shopify is, personally, my favorite ecommerce platform – it’s easy to use, flexible, scalable, and packed with great features.

However, as straightforward as Shopify is – it does have some limitations. You still have to manage the platform yourself, and deal with building and customizing your store personally – unless you hire an external expert.

If you want a more “done for you” solution for building an ecommerce experience, Builder.AI could be the better choice.

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The psychedelic seems to be typical for Sarah Mayer. The designer, who has a background in fashion, now makes her living on sharing the funky, surreal, and downright beautiful.

Her Snapchat lenses may seem like a far cry from hand-sewing and pattern-making, but the connection is closer than you might think! I was grateful to touch base with Sarah and hear her thoughts on the future of Snapchat and AR.

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Artistic style transfer is one of the most popular creativity tools made possible by machine learning. People love to see their photos and videos transformed into works by famous artists or entirely new abstract masterpieces.

We often get asked if it’s possible to train custom styles. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to train your very own style transfer model in just 20 minutes using our open source training template and Google Colab notebooks.

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Deploying memory-hungry deep learning algorithms is a challenge for anyone who wants to create a scalable service. Cloud services are expensive in the long run.

Deploying models offline on edge devices is cheaper, and has other benefits as well. The only disadvantage is that they have a paucity of memory and compute power.

This blog explores a few techniques that can be used to fit neural networks in memory-constrained settings.

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18-year-old Maxime Cabrol has already mapped out his future. A university student, Cabrol is also a drummer and official Snapchat Lens Creator. His lenses often involve Geofilters and encourage users to travel the world and share the journey with their friends.

Perhaps most well-known for his World Flag lens, Cabrol is already making waves in the digital space. I caught up with the French Creator to learn more.

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Anyone with a wet finger in the air will by now have heard of the “retail apocalypse” sweeping through the developed world’s malls.

“People aren’t spending in stores anymore,” your quarter-informed uncle complains, before moaning that youths are too busy Instagramming their avocado brunches to burn crosses on peoples’ lawns. Indeed, the old retailing models aren’t working as well as they used to.

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This is the final post in our series covering the ins and outs of working with Google’s AutoML Vision Edge platform.

We started our journey by training a simple machine learning model in 3–4 hours. From there, we exported the model into various formats provided by AutoML.

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In summary, HubSpot Breeze AI costs anywhere from $0 to $4,300 per month, depending on your business needs and the features you want to access.

The free plan is a great starting point for small businesses to explore basic functionality, but larger teams will need to invest in premium plans and purchase Breeze credits to unlock the suite’s full potential.

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