2021: What We’ve Been Up To?

EDGE End of Year Newsletter

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Hey Everyone,

We wanted to share some of the things we are most proud of from 2021 (Edge’s second year in business). As always, thank you for following along on this journey.

Lina and Sidney
Founders, Edge Analytics

What does Edge Analytics do?

Edge Analytics is a data science consulting company. Edge was born out of a simple desire to work with our friends and do things together that make a positive difference in the world. We are a team of ten ML engineers who partner with companies to ship cutting-edge algorithms.

What a year! Here are some highlights.

We created a lot of content this year!

• 100+ Social Media Posts (Not following us yet? Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter!)
• 15 Blogs, including our FPGA sleep tracker. Check out our Medium publication.

We published 15 blog posts and over 100+ social media posts this year.

We started the Edge Incubator and spun out our first company.

At our summer retreat this year, we brainstormed growth opportunities for Edge and discussed how cool it would be to incubate novel technologies and startup companies. Well… six months later, we’re happy to announce that we successfully incubated and spun out our first company — Infinity AI.

Infinity AI is a product company that generates synthetic data for machine learning teams (check out the press release!). Infinity worked with multiple customers, published a paper at a NeurIPS workshop, gave an invited talk at Duke, and successfully closed a seed round in VC funding!

We had a lot of fun!

Five new people joined the Edge team this year (Brinnae, Daniel, Andrew Mark, Henry, and Carmen) — read about their amazing backgrounds on our website. We had a summer and winter retreat (check out this 1min retreat highlight video) and hosted multiple game nights and continuous learning sessions.

We had several virtual game nights and met up in person (since we’re 50% remote) for two onsite visits in San Francisco.

Check out this 1min highlight video of our Summer Retreat in SF!

We worked on innovative products with amazing partners.

Here are just a few of the amazing products we worked on in 2021.

FDA submission, successful patient trials, and more!

Cionic, a major partner that helps people transcend physical limitations, hit many big milestones this year. Cionic announced the Cionic Neural Sleeve, submitted an FDA 510k application, and conducted feasibility studies with patients (demonstrating 143% improvement in gait). Do you know someone with a mobility challenge like stroke, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy? Invite them to sign up for patient trials here.

Cionic, one of our major partners, hit many milestones this year, including starting patient trials of the Cionic Neural Sleeve!

Launch of a novel NLP product

We partnered with inVibe, a cutting-edge company that is transforming market research, to launch a new product using GPT-3. Be sure to follow inVibe on LinkedIn and contact them for your next research project.

Consumer Product with Fortune 500 Company

We continued close collaboration with one of our major partners to build algorithms and firmware infrastructure for a consumer product. The product is getting closer to mass manufacturing, and we can’t wait to see people using it all around the world.

Advanced Health Sensing Product

Çava, one of our long-term partners, closed a successful $500k WeFunder campaign to continue building the most advanced toilet seat ever built (check out Lina and Sidney in the overview video)

Authentication Algorithms

Another one of our partners, Origyn, raised $20M dollars to continue leveraging AI and decentralized technologies to guarantee the authenticity of luxury items (watches, art, jewelry, and more)

We also worked on a range of other projects from digital twins to remote fitness, synthetic media to genetics, and self-supervised ML techniques to game engines. We are looking forward to more exciting work in 2022 and hope to have you along for the ride!

A Complete List of Our 2021 Blog Posts

• Neural Network on the Tip of a Pencil: Mapping 2-dimensional algorithms to hardware with FPGAs
• Why the founder of IDEO was right all along: Founding a company in order to “work with your friends”
• The Beginning of Infinite Data: How to generate infinite synthetic training data for computer vision
• Getting the Most Out of GPT-3-based Text Classifiers: Part One, Part Two, Part Three
• Python Best Practices: Guidelines we follow at Edge Analytics
• From the Edge Analytics Newsletter Archive: A Year in Review 2020
• We asked GPT-3 to help us choose a game for our company retreat. Here’s what happened!
• Summer Newsletter: Reflections on Growth
• Replacing Recurrence with Attention: Improving Large Language Models with Self-Attention
• Introducing Infinity AI and the Pixelate API: The Synthetic Data API for Computer Vision Teams
• InfiniteForm: a synthetic, minimal bias dataset for fitness applications
• Fake it ’til you make it: the advantages of using synthetic data in computer vision models
• Synthetic Data for Computer Vision: Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap

Edge Analytics is a consulting company that specializes in data science, machine learning, and algorithm development both on the edge and in the cloud. We partner with our clients, who range from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, to turn their ideas into reality. Have a hard problem in mind? Get in touch at info@edgeanalytics.io.