Guido Tapia

Guido Tapia

Director of Software Development and Machine Learning Services at PicNet

Guido manages the Software Development and Machine Learning teams at PicNet. They specialise in delivering complex systems that are usually beyond the capabilities of regular outsourcing companies. Such systems as; highly distributed systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, business critical applications, etc.

Guido Tapia

August 6, 2021

PicNet Power BI Command Line Tools

Today we released our "PicNet Power BI Command Line Tools" project on github. This project is what allows PicNet developers to collaborate on Power BI projects by addressing a few issues, these are: This project comes with a “Works on my PC” guarante ...

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Guido Tapia

May 5, 2019

PyTorch Implementation of "Unsupervised learning by competing hidden units" MNIST classifier

I recently watched this lecture by Dmitry Krotov and found it very interesting so I thought it would make a good paper to try to reproduce. My original thoughts were that this could potentially solve the adversarial vulnerability inherent in most mod ...

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Guido Tapia

April 13, 2018

Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning Projects

Any machine learning practitioner will tell you that there is a certain point in time where trying to eke out more performance/accuracy from a project seems like more effort than its worth. At PicNet we always suggest customers run a 4-6-week proof o ...

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Guido Tapia

March 8, 2018

When is an Organisation Ready to Benefit from Machine Learning

I am told quite frequently that an organisation is not "mature" enough for machine learning. By this, managers usually mean one of the following things items are not at a level deemed adequate: This falls back into the very common trap with managers ...

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Guido Tapia

March 5, 2018

How to Work with Machine Learning

A very common problem I find in the industry is senior managers not fully understanding how best to utilize Machine Learning technologies to help their business. A common misconception is that these projects should be treated the same as traditional ...

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Guido Tapia

December 6, 2016

Introducing XGBoost.Net - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost library

Introducing XGBoost.Net - .Net wrappers for the awesome XGBoost library XGBoost is a big part of our Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics toolkit here at PicNet. We use it almost heavily for our proof of concept and prototype work and it is alwa ...

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