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The Hard Thing about Machine Learning

Posted in Data Science, Labs by Brian Keng On August 21, 2017

Much of the buzz around machine learning lately has been around novel applications of deep learning models. They have captured our imagination by anthropomorphizing them, allowing them to dream, play games at superhuman levels , and read x-rays better than physicians. While these deep learning models are incredibly powerful with incredible ingenuity built into them, they are not humans, nor are they...

Déjà vu? Machine Learning’s current growth echoes IoT’S from a few years earlier, but without the fizzle

Posted in Perspectives by Aaron Dauphinee On July 12, 2017

Recently Entrepreneur published an interesting article on how small businesses with Internet of Things (IoT) products and services can avoid being locked out of this lucrative market by larger companies. Guest writer, Maciej Kranz, vice president of corporate strategic innovations at Cisco, advocated in his article that start-ups need to “throw assumptions and principles that worked in the previous...

Building A Table Tennis Ranking Model

Posted in Data Science, Labs by Brian Keng On July 4, 2017

At Rubikloud, our wonderful Operations team regularly plans fun activities that the whole company can participate in such as movie nights, ceramic painting, and curling to name a few. However, my favourite activity by far is visible as soon as you get off the elevator. Championship match at our annual ping pong tournament Many of our Rubikrew are big fans of table...

Only blaming Amazon is not fashionable

Posted in Retail by Jessica Uttley On June 29, 2017

Retailers may be tempted to focus solely on the challenges they face due to the rapid rise of Amazon into a dominant leadership position. This would be very short sighted of them. The impact to their businesses from the digitization of consumer shopping behaviour and a growing culture of bargain hunters are not to be so quickly...

Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods may look like a ripple to retailers today, but it is going to result in a tsunami tomorrow

Posted in Perspectives by Aaron Dauphinee On June 22, 2017

Last week the retail world was abuzz as Amazon, once again, opted for the road less traveled by announcing their acquisition of Whole Foods. It is hard to find a media outlet in North America that did not cover this story with major foreign publications in Europe, Asia and some developing markets also chiming in. We’ve compiled three opinions to help...

The verdict on how to avoid utterly indefensible AI start-ups

Posted in Perspectives by Aaron Dauphinee On June 8, 2017

Last week tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bradford Cross announced he will be the new founder and CEO of Merlon Intelligence, a compliance risk management platform as its principal product offering. ARCHITECHT founder Derek Harris interviewed Cross on the ARCHITECT show podcast where he spoke to how Merlon is applying machine learning against regulatory compliance and risk management technology. While the...

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