Manuel Amunategui

By now we as a society should have realized that machines tend to uplift our quality of life. Over the past hundred-odd years, the unfolding of each new breakthrough technology — from electricity to the automobile to the internet — has brought with it trepidation, but then ultimately acceptance. However, even in spite of these past …

Society’s Mentality is Holding AI Back. How to Change Hearts & Minds Read More »

Looking for Anomalies in Stock Market Data with Conditional Variational AutoEncoders (CVAE) and TensorFlow Just like Fast R-CNN and Mask-R CNN evolved from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Conditional Variational AutoEncoders (CVAE) and Variational AutoEncoders (VAE) evolved from the classic AutoEncoder. CVAEs are the latest incarnation of unsupervised neural network anomaly detection tools offering some new and …

From Financial Compliance to Fraud Detection Read More »

It was lunchtime and wonton Tuesday at the cafeteria, but our data scientist was not there. He was far away with dirt smeared over his face and hiding behind a stack of red construction bricks trying to blend in. It was a hot day, like looking for shade under a magnifying glass kind of hot. His …

The Guerrilla Data Scientist and that “Can Do” Attitude Read More »

Pairing Q-Learning with other ML concepts like Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Case-based Reasoning (CBR) has shown a significant increase in the accuracy of a model. With the rise in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT), there are plenty of third-party sensor attachments, hardware and software management tools to leverage. The hope is to analyze the data after …

Using Reinforcement Learning to build an Emergency Response Scenario Read More »