Obtaining “exclusive” access Recently, I was luckily chosen (again) to try one of the new products released by OpenAI. This time, it was DALL-E 2, the system capable of generating art/images from a natural language description. …

As part of a program to improve leadership skills, I recently read the book ”Conversations For Action and Collected Essays” — written by Fernando Flores. The book revolves around how essential informative and correctly structured conversations are to ensure teams work at their best level. The problem Generally, in order to improve…

As promised — following the findings in my previous article — we’ll now focus on Custom Vision “compact” models. What are they? Use cases? What is their performance like compared with standard models? Compact world A very interesting Custom Vision feature is the possibility of exporting a simplified version of a model…

In Summary In this article, I’ll explain how you can use a simple trick to replicate locally an architecture with multiple containers running on a single ECS task and an application load balancer performing content-based routing. Our example In our example, we run a blog platform similar to Medium (in React) and our backend…

In Summary In this article, I’ll run through the possibilities and tradeoffs of Microsoft Custom Vision. I’ll use an old MIT research that aimed to classify indoor images to compare results and base the final conclusion on empirical observations. Custom Vision has been on my radar for a while. The platform, created…

In summary In this article, I’ll explain how data can help you to make decisions. …

The progress of AI in the last decade… …would have been inconceivable without the preconditions set up by DARPA and Caltech in 1958, but it’s not over yet. (In fact, in this area, we are only about a decade away from having a small fraction of human brain function replaced by AI.) What can make all this progress…

In Summary Get your apps to make use of your trained machine learning model via standard REST requests with SageMaker and TensorFlow. When working on a project that requires building and training a custom machine learning model, TensorFlow makes the work much easier. …

In this occasion, I’d like to share a couple of ways to enhance the deployment of your Lambda functions, aiming for its complete automation: Handling tasks not achievable with CloudFormation. Use of CF resources in your code via environment variables. Is Cloud Formation enough? I guess this is the first question to ask when…