Researchers trained an algorithm to predict knee pain better than the decades-old standard By Melanie Ehrenkranz Emma Pierson, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research New England, said that her medical collaborator on a recent study shared an accurate, though not very reassuring fact about pain. “We don’t understand it very…

RAPIDS Series 2: Step-by-step Python configuration for more efficient computing By Filip Velkov Setting the stage Have you ever found yourself desperately needing more GPU power to run your deep learning models, but your local configuration simply can’t carry out? If so, then this article will show you how to use cloud GPUs…

A voyage — and invitation — into NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated ecosystem By Juan Medina, Team Lead in Data Science & ML at Loka.com More and more disruptive companies are looking at data science to leverage large-scale datasets and generate precious insights. While data science is incredibly valuable to businesses, it can…

Spoiler alert: This is not the usual post about Flutter 😉 By: Alfredo Rinaudo, Senior Mobile Developer at Loka, Inc. I'm realizing there are still only a few companies that really know about Flutter, and even fewer use it. Instead, the vast majority are sticking with native platforms or even…

A short and sweet trends forecast from a data lead who lives this stuff — By Fernando Escobar, Data Lead at Loka, Inc. Hi, I’m Fer. And for the better part of the last decade, I’ve specialized in data analysis and data engineering for Fortune 500s and Series-A Startups. Here’s what I see coming our way in 2021. When I think about how I’d define…

There’s good reason for the Googles and Amazons of the world to share the wealth — By Melanie Ehrenkranz We know that training powerful machine learning models takes a lot of time and massive computing power—and these things inherently cost a lot of money and take a toll on our planet. …

Open-source tools designed to spotlight the carbon footprints of cloud storage — By Melanie Ehrenkranz Much of our digital lives are in the cloud, a seemingly abstract digital space. But it’s not abstract—while the data is intangible, the storage centers where this data lives are very real in the physical world. …