23 hours agoFinding Singing Talent through AIWhat if we could find the next greatest soprano through AI and the capabilities of Speech Models of AI? Grammy-nominated producer Alex da Kid used IBM Watson to analyze five years’ of hit songs, as well as cultural data from films, social media, and online articles to figure out a…AI2 min readAI2 min read
Jan 25Word2Vec and Psychometrics. Hexaco Translation to UrduWord2vec is a method to efficiently create word embeddings and has been around since 2013. But in addition to its utility as a word-embedding method, some of its concepts have been shown to be effective in creating recommendation engines and making sense of sequential data even in commercial, non-language tasks. …NLP2 min readNLP2 min read
Jan 19Deep Learning Tuning Playbook by Google Brain EngineersIn the slew of mushrooming free advice on machine learning without context and a recipe it is rare that applied use-case guides are available written by the professionals themselves. A team of scientists from Harvard and Google Brain has joined hands to tackle practical problems, especially hyperparameter tuning. This document…Deeplearningai2 min readDeeplearningai2 min read
Jan 11Biodiversity, Bees, Pollination and Agritech using AIUncompromised population growth of invasive insects endangers biodiversity, agribusinesses, and ecosystems. One such example is the invasion of Vespa hornets in honey harvesting areas which leads to a devastating impact on honeybee ecology and subsequently on the economic activities linked with it. To mitigate the imposed threat, a vision-based system…Bees2 min readBees2 min read
Jan 3DeepL beating FAANG at Language Translation by atleast 5xWhile any LLM can’t be expected to produce human-level text and speech by any stretch of the imagination, what it can do with the corpus it is trained is nothing short of wonderful. And what better way to test the rubber than to put it on the road? According to…Deeplearing3 min readDeeplearing3 min read
Dec 20, 2022Changing World Order by Ray Dalio and the Big Cycles LessonIts been an eventful and happening year for me and as the year sets and the new year is around the corner, I am closing in on a reflective hiatus where I can analyze the lessons from myriad discussions and long brainstorming sessions with some of the most innovative leaders…Ray Dalio3 min readRay Dalio3 min read
Dec 14, 2022Klarna’s Co-founder Niklas Adler talks about Life, Impact and NorrskenIn 2012, I bought shoes online using a buy now pay later service that was in its inception. It coincided with the e-commerce boom in Sweden and fintech boomed rapidly. Shop till you drop culture just got a lifeline and data-sharing infrastructure made the process seamless. As a business school…Klarna3 min readKlarna3 min read
Dec 6, 2022World Circular Economic Forum 2022 and AI Research in Sustainable MaterialsSome time ago, I posted about how AI is helping find out new materials for manufacturing that are designed for a specific purpose like…Sustainability3 min readSustainability3 min read
Nov 30, 2022AltSchool Africa partners with Psyda to promote Edtech in Africa.Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest tertiary gross enrollment ratio globally, significantly lower than South Asia. This trend is primarily due to sub-Saharan Africa’s low base in 1970, when fewer than 400,000 students were in a tertiary education program. …Edtech2 min readEdtech2 min read
Nov 22, 2022FIFA WorldCup 2022 and Football AnalyticsOn Sunday, FIFA Worldcup 2022 opened with a majestic ceremony featuring Morgan Freeman among others. It was quite a spectacle but this isn’t where FIFA stops. Big data and pro sports are inextricably linked. Top clubs in the highest leagues use sensors and software to analyze athletes’ performance. …Football Analytics3 min readFootball Analytics3 min read
