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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 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

Book Reviews Sem categoria 16/12/20

Machine Learning Reproducibility: A Kaggle Competition Use-Case

Even though Reproducibility in Machine Learning is a theme that people hear about now and then, we still see that people are practicing it only to a certain degree. Even between Kaggle ...

Sem categoria 12/11/20

Multi-task learning: Solving different computer vision problems with a single model

In the last few years, significant improvements in computer vision were made, making it possible to obtain important information from images. Some of the challenges for a better understanding of ...

Igor Muniz
Director of Artificial Intelligence

Book Reviews Sem categoria 23/10/20

Ranking labs-of-origin for genetically engineered DNA using Metric Learning

With the constant advancements of genetic engineering, a common concern is to be able to identify the lab-of-origin of genetically engineered DNA sequences. For that reason, AltLabs has hosted ...

Amalgam Sem categoria 15/10/20

7 common mistakes of a machine learning beginner

In recent years, the term Artificial Intelligence has gained strength and together with it have emerged some professions such as Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer. Knowing and applying ...

Igor Muniz
Director of Artificial Intelligence

Sem categoria 15/06/15

Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity

Disease is a word that carries such a visceral meaning: we’ve all had (or still have) one at some point, and have experienced the pains and challenges that come with it. They always reminds ...

Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV

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