We recently had the opportunity to test and evaluate (T&E) the accuracy of a machine transcription product in our lab. Two challenges with testing the product were finding a test corpus we could trust and a scoring methodology that was fair. The problem with...
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service that has its own machine learning service, known as Cognitive Services. It is split into five categories: Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search, with each category containing several tools, for a total of 26....
Recently, a client stopped by and asked if Armedia had, or knew of any open source, face matching software that could scan a video and determine if a suspect’s face appeared anywhere in the video. Our team was intrigued. In today’s world, how available and how...
Intro The purpose of this blog post is to explain how blockchain technology, and in particular a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, works by example. A simple blockchain bash script, named bashCoin, will be used for illustration. Digital Currency and Blockchain Overview A...
Intro Beginners to Bitcoin may find the concepts and the scope of the network overwhelming. The idea of trading real currency for digital currency can sound scary, especially when the beginner is not familiar with how blockchain works or even how to send and receive...
Big data is a term that is the main talking point of most companies that deal with the vast amounts of data out there from sales figures to trend analysis. Most of the time the task that is assigned to the ‘Big Data’ team is to find a way to get the information,...