Apr 13A Talk with Lucy Pink — How Innovative Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Way We LiveArcanum AI is a founding partner of the Golden Ticket programme supporting NZ FinTechs on their scale up journey. We sat down with recent Golden Ticket winner and entrepreneur Lucy Pink to talk about the ethical shopping company she founded, OnYou. …3 min read
Feb 2When an unstoppable force meets an immovable objectWhat’s up with our pipeline? That was a question raised in our office last week, as we turned over 28 days since the release of our platform into the wild. Thankfully, it wasn’t a question because of the size of the pipeline. What it actually was, was a question about…Saa S5 min read
Jan 26Key ways Netflix utilises AI and machine learningOff the back of our previous post re-classifying how we think about the ecosystem of intelligent apps, I thought I’d share an example of how Netflix has used two of the functional AI components — Extraction and Recommendation — to create seamless, personalised “intelligent apps”. Use Case #1 — the Netflix recommendation engine Most of us are probably…4 min read
Jan 19Making sense of the AI landscapeIrrespective of whether you’ve got a strong technical background or not, the subject is incredibly complex. As one customer put it — the whole subject is increasingly inaccessible. This is problematic because it’s a central part of so many organisations’ strategies as they look to the future. What is it…Ai And Ml4 min read
Jan 11AI — simplifying through a functional lensHere’s how the AI industry is typically depicted. It’s no wonder it’s so impenetrable for most people. 7 clusters, 78 sub-clusters. 1,000’s of solutions. Good luck with your AI journey! Our approach: When we explain the AI stack, we like to use the analogy of the old-school slide projector. …AI6 min read
Nov 22, 2021All Roads Lead to Maths — A High-Level Introduction to EmbeddingsEmbeddings are central to many areas of machine learning. They provide a way to numerically represent things in the physical world that are not naturally numeric. In this blog post, we’ll explore a simple use case: using embeddings to determine pairwise similarities within a collection of animals. Say you’ve found…Machine Learning3 min read
Nov 2, 2021Lessons learned from reproducing ResNet and DenseNet on CIFAR-10 datasetIntroduction Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown their promising success in image classification. Two recently proposed DCNNs have been gaining great reputation very quickly: Residual network (ResNet) proposed in 2015 has reported an outstanding performance in terms of classification accuracy, which is still one of the best state-of-art classifier on…Machine Learning7 min read
Oct 14, 2021Comparison of AWS EC2, RDS, and Aurora for Database SolutionsWhen companies move their infrastructure from on-premise data centers to the clouds — AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, etc., it has to decide whether to use a database service or to set up the database on virtual machines. …Aws Aurora3 min read
Oct 5, 2021How Intelligent Tutoring Systems could change the way we learnA Bit of History Based primarily on Applications of AI in Education (1996), we will be exploring how computers have influenced education prior to 1996 in order to gain context into the history of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). The next post in this line will be about the issues teachers…Education6 min read
Sep 28, 2021AI Now !!Recessions often lead to pivotal points in technology, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 heralded the adoption of cloud computing. Platform companies such as Uber and Airbnb were founded during this time and online retail stores began changing the way we shop. As we look to accelerate out of this…AI4 min read
