Gen Villamin, Author at Tech Web Space

Passionate about agile, innovation and data science. As an agile project manager and technology writer, I get to combine the best of both worlds: the moonshot ideas of technology disruptors and the value-driven mindset of businesses.

The Avengers Guide to Artificial Intelligence

May 8, 2018 by Gen Villamin

Everyone is asking the question: how could the Avengers defeat Thanos? Quora users offer a lot of theories. One involves taunting Thanos to use the stones one at a time. While another one suggests, Doctor Strange should offer Thanos a bargain, just…

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9 Ways to Become the MacGyver of Deep Learning

May 2, 2018 by Gen Villamin

You are not a data scientist nor machine learning programmer. But your boss wants an AI project started in the next three months. Mastering deep learning in a next few weeks is impossible. Nor, you have the budget to hire a consultant…

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AI in the Public Sector, why it’s worth the risk

April 19, 2018 by Gen Villamin

The public sector and International Financial Institutions (IFI) seek to be knowledge and learning organizations. Yet, just like corporations and enterprises, they struggle. Implementing the right technology to maximize the value of thousands of research, lessons learned and experience amassed for the past…

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Natural Language Processing, the best business practices you need to know

April 9, 2018 by Gen Villamin

Do you remember Microsoft’s Twitter chatbot back in 2016? It started as an innocent bot, turned AI Nazi in less than a day. Tay was a natural language processing (NLP) project gone wrong. Built under an unsupervised learning model, the bot learned…

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How Machine Learning Uncovers the Best Customer Insights

March 31, 2018 by Gen Villamin

Data is the new oil. Insights derived from massive amounts of information can go beyond planning, budgeting, and forecasting, it can define a brand’s competitive advantage. Big data processed using machine learning can identify emerging opportunities, simulate events and help executives make…

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Algorithm Models: How can it make or break your first machine learning project

March 24, 2018 by Gen Villamin

If there is one thing that could make or break your machine learning project, it is the type of algorithm model that you use. Okay, did I just lose you there? Let us take a few steps back. How does machine…

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