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Amalgam 26/10/21

Porto Seguro Challenge – 2nd Place Solution

We are pleased to announce that we got second place in the Porto Seguro Challenge, a competition organized by the largest insurance company in Brazil. Porto Seguro challenged us to build an ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Amalgam 15/10/21

Predicting Reading Level of Texts – A Kaggle NLP Competition

Introduction: One of the main fields of AI is Natural Language Processing and its applications in the real world. Here on Amalgam.ai we are building different models to solve some of the problems ...

João Paulo Martins
Data Scientist XNV

Amalgam 15/10/21

Porto Seguro Challenge

Introduction: In the modern world the competition for marketing space is fierce, nowadays every company that wants the slight advantage needs AI to select the best customers and increase the ROI ...

João Paulo Martins
Data Scientist XNV

Exponential 08/06/21

Chinese Lab Build the World Largest Model and Challenges Google… and the western as a whole.

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), AKA OpenAI of China, recently launched the latest version of Wudao, a pre-trained deep learning model that is called “the world largest ...

João Paulo Martins
Data Scientist XNV

Sem categoria 03/06/21

VGGNets are back

If you have studied the deep learning timeline history, you may know that the big moment was in 2012 when Alex Krizhevsky presented a deep convolutional architecture able to improve the ...

Igor Muniz
Director of Artificial Intelligence

Amalgam Sem categoria 02/06/21

Consumer vs Server-Grade Hardware and why you can’t do Business-Grade work with the former

In any market or industry, quality work at scale requires purpose-built high-performance tools. In a previous article (The Eight Challenges You’ll Face With On-Premise Artificial ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 12/04/21

Nvidia GTC 2021

Nvidia’s annual GTC starts today and you don’t want to lose this opportunity. Every year Nvidia comes to show their exciting advancements in GPU technology and as artificial ...

Igor Muniz
Director of Artificial Intelligence

Sem categoria 01/04/21

Potatoes Cluster: Training a Deep Learning Model Using a 100 Potatoes

Have you ever heard about battery potatoes? Did you know that it is also possible to process information using potatoes? In this post we are going to show you how it’s possible to create a ...

Igor Muniz
Director of Artificial Intelligence

Sem categoria 05/03/21

Creating a Kubernetes environment on AWS with kOPS

Have you ever wondered about deploying a cluster controlled by Kubernetes on AWS (or any other Cloud Provider) without suffering? Well, this post is definitely to you. I won’t compare tools ...

Rhuan Silva
Former Tech. Lead at XNV

Sem categoria 09/02/21

The Art of Hiring Data Scientists

The amount of companies hiring out Data Scientists thinking that they’re going to come in, wave a wand and solve all problems with AI is appalling. This is not good for the industry, the ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 09/02/21

Adopting Quantum Computing in 2021

Interesting take on adopting Quantum Computing in 2021, but I still think that there is a lot to overcome before most companies can actually use Quantum Computing for problems that really matter. ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

Sem categoria 06/02/21

Quantum Brain

Just read a very interesting article on an intelligent material that re-arranges itself in response to a learning stimulus. This is very exciting, and I think, the way to go when it comes to ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

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