A few days ago, DeepMind announced their release of NFNets, a family of image classification models that are: State of the art on ImageNet (86.5% top-1 without extra data) Up to 8.7x faster to train than EfficientNets to a given accuracy Normalizer-free (no BatchNorm!) Paper: http://dpmd.ai/06171 Code: http://dpmd.ai/nfnets Has more than 438.4 million parameters The… Les mer
If Digitalisation is the answer, what was the question?
A lot has been written and said about digitalisation. And one can expect that more will be written, and even more will be said. Talkers, writers and doers – all are needed simultaneously, some probably more than others. So, what is it with digitalisation? My own brain-exploding realisation was triggered by the term “Digital Divide”… Les mer
The never ending journey
Eighteen years ago, after the summer of 2002, I started a very exciting journey into the world of Artificial Intelligence. It was August the 19th, a Monday in the year 2002 when at 07:00 I started taking my first class in the Faculty of Physics and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Veracruz. Last week,… Les mer
There Is A Snake Among Us
I guess the time has come when I start walking through dangerous paths. I was delaying a little writing about Python because I might make some readers a bit mad. But I hope it does not happen, and all of you can get some learning out of this story. Python was for me, back in… Les mer
A C++ Book and a Heavy Hamburger
At the university, I had a place where I used to eat a fat Brazilian street hamburger while reading my precious book “C++ How to Program” third edition from Deitel & Deitel. I cannot tell what was heavier, the code in my mind, or the hamburger in my stomach. I was young, and at the… Les mer
… And It Must Be Coded in C!
C is a powerful and amazingly fast programming language. Still, the most impressive feature it has is the ability and the speed it can empty a room full of developers when who-take-the-decisions says: “… and it must be coded in C!” I honestly don’t understand this “fear” of C and why universities are adopting other… Les mer
My Journey Into Programming Languages
My name is Hugo, and I have a long journey “coding the possible and also the impossible” already behind me. So, I decided to tell my story and adventures using programming languages to touch upon various impressions and learnings but trying not to judge what is better or worst. Tricks, insights, good and bad practices… Les mer
Norway’s First AI Strategy
Last Tuesday, 14th January 2020, was a big day for the Norwegian IT sector as the government’s national strategy for artificial intelligence was presented at a breakfast meeting at MESH, central Oslo. Over 160 people from business, academia and the public sector participated in the launch, as well as many who followed the event online.… Les mer
On Norwegian mobility aspects
This is a small, very small update from one of my previous posts. However, the original post was shared on another blogging platform. In the near future, I will migrate these old posts into digital emerge… of course, after updating the articles, correcting them or augmenting them, when possible. Since the original post was shared… Les mer
Digital Marketing Strategy: Exploring the use of Multisensorial VR experiences for campaign development
We want to start this year by sharing a really fun assignment that we delivered last week. This was part of the course Digital Marketing in the Executive MBA program at BI. The assignment instructions were something like this: Develop a digital marketing strategy that capitalizes on a virtual reality multisensory experience for a brand… Les mer