Published inAtchai·Mar 23, 2020What can data scientists contribute to the COVID-19 effort?Health care professionals are the real heroes of the moment but there is an important role for data scientists to play in the fight against the pandemic. Your first port of call should be the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset — released on 20th March by the White House and a…Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Published inAtchai·Dec 31, 2018How we simulated and subsequently abandoned the MythX tokenMythX (previously Mythril) recently made the decision to drop their custom token and move to a stablecoin-based subscription payment system. Bernhard already posted a good overview of the reasoning behind this decision but I’d like to add some background on how we used simulations to help us understand the dynamics…Blockchain13 min readBlockchain13 min read
Published inAtchai·Aug 30, 2018Can we save the utility token?Introducing a dynamic bonding curve token model — Utility tokens have received a lot of bad press recently, and for good reason. Many ICOs that sold utility tokens seem to have massively over-estimated the supply of tokens required for normal usage of their networks. The price of these tokens has been supported by speculative investors who presumably didn’t…Blockchain7 min readBlockchain7 min read
Published inAtchai·Jul 2, 2018ERC948 Recurring Payments Standard Progress Update — July 1st 2018These updates are based on the discussions between the working group for ERC948 — a standard for recurring payments on Ethereum that is currently in development. …Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Published inAtchai·Apr 12, 2018Software licences as non-fungible tokensWhat if all our software licenses were compatible and we could go to a single integrated app store and sell say three days of Adobe Creative Cloud and buy two days of Microsoft Office? This flexibility would be a clear win for consumers but would surely lead to a loss…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Published inAtchai·Mar 23, 2018OpenSign: A dapp to create agreements on the Ethereum blockchainOpenSign is a free, decentralized alternative to products like DocuSign and Adobe Sign. It allows you to make agreements without requiring any trusted third party to keep track of your documents and signatures. td;dr: The OpenSign dapp is currently an MVP, you can try it yourself now if you have…Ethereum4 min readEthereum4 min read
Published inAtchai·Mar 24, 2017LastSeen — the bot that knows you’re safeLastSeen is a simple Facebook Messenger Bot that asks the user to check-in once a day and notifies their designated contact if they don’t. The project is a collaboration between Atchai and Tom Hewitson. Tom’s father passed away last year. Once the initial shock had subsided he found himself often…Bots4 min readBots4 min read
Published inAtchai·Feb 3, 2017Introducing Eyewitness — The Newsgathering Bot PlatformUPDATE: Out of 736 applications, it was announced today that we are one of the 22 winners to receive funding from #innovateAfrica. We’re absolutely thrilled to have been chosen, and we’re really excited about the potential for Eyewitness to transform newsgathering. What is EyeWitness Bot? Eyewitness will allow media organisations to leverage their community…Journalism2 min readJournalism2 min read
Published inAtchai·Sep 4, 2016How To Run A Successful Chatbot Development ProjectIn this article we’ll share a few things we’ve learned from building chatbots. We’ll cover how to select the right messaging platforms, how to design effective conversations and why we’ve built our own platform for the rapid development and testing of bots. What does success look like? Like any project, it’s important to start by…Bots6 min readBots6 min read
Published inChatbots Magazine·Aug 28, 2016Multi-Team Slack Bots Hosted with BeepBoopHow To Deploy Your Bot As a Slack App — This article assumes that you already have a Slack bot running locally as a custom integration, and an account set up with BeepBoop. …Slack4 min readSlack4 min read
