Published in Amethix Technologies·Feb 21How Data Science and AI are Killing Software Engineering Best Practices (And Why We Need to Fight Back!)In recent years, the field of data science and artificial intelligence has experienced an explosive growth, with a corresponding surge in the development of data-driven products and services. …Software Engineering6 min readSoftware Engineering6 min read
Published in The Startup·Aug 11, 2020Member-onlyWhy You Care About Homomorphic EncryptionThe hype is dead, long live the hype. After deep learning, a new entry is about ready to go on stage. The usual journalists are warming up their keyboards for blogs, news feeds, tweets, in one word, hype. This time it’s all about privacy and data confidentiality. …Homomorphic Encryption5 min readHomomorphic Encryption5 min read
Published in The Startup·Aug 4, 2020Member-onlyTest-First Machine LearningTesting software is one of the most complex tasks in software engineering. While in traditional software engineering there are principles that define in a non-ambiguous way how software should be tested, the same does not hold for machine learning, where testing strategies are not always defined. In this post, I…Testing5 min readTesting5 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 24, 2020Member-onlyGPT-3 Will Not Take Your Programming JobTL;DR; GPT-3 will not take your programming job (Unless you are a terrible programmer, in which case you would have lost your job anyway) Once again the hype of artificial intelligence has broken in the news. This time under the name of GPT-3, the successor of GPT-2 (of course), a…4 min read4 min read
Jul 22, 2020Rebase from forked repoIt is very common to fork a repo you are interested in and start reading code and learn how things are done. Then after a few days realizing that the forked repo is already behind upstream and need to resync. Here is a standard way of doing just this safely. We will call the main project to fork https://github.com/author/cool-project.git and the forked repo will be at https://github.com/myself/cool-project.gitGit1 min readGit1 min read
Published in Amethix Technologies·Jul 20, 2020Member-only5 reasons why Rust is the futureIf you are looking for some kind of metal panel business idea, allow me to be clear: the Rust I am referring to is a programming language. Still there? When I started learning programming languages I was 8 years old, the world was in different shapes and computers were more…Rust5 min readRust5 min read
Published in Amethix Technologies·Jun 3, 2020Why is Scrum a terrible idea for machine learningScrum, a definition Let’s start with the definition of Scrum and its peculiarities. Scrum is an agile framework for developing products by breaking down them in small chunks that can be time boxed from 2 to 4 weeks. Such time boxes are called sprints. Progress is tracked in meetings called daily scrums. From…Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 13, 2019Member-only5 effective dimensions to improve data governanceThe data governance framework you need for your organization The adoption of artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across many businesses. This disruptive technology is driving consistent improvements of the operational efficiencies and decision-making processes across a large variety of industries, and it is helping to better understand customer needs, improve service quality, predict and prevent risks, just to mention…Big Data6 min readBig Data6 min read
Published in Amethix Technologies·Nov 13, 2019Artificial intelligence and data governance AI data governanceThe adoption of artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across many businesses. This technology is driving constant improvements in the decision-making processes and overall performance across a large variety of industries. It is also helping to better understand customer needs, improve service quality, predict and prevent risks. The implementation of a proper…5 min read5 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Nov 12, 2019What if I train a deep neural network with random data?This post has been published as a podcast episode on Data Science at Home. You can listen to the full episode here Would you train a neural network with random data? Moreover, are massive neural networks just lookup tables or do they truly learn something? Today’s episode is about memorisation…Machine Learning2 min readMachine Learning2 min read
