Enter the next level

This blog post may refer to aeronautical applications but Combine have been implementing a model-based approach in a wide variety of industries since 2005. The time saved in the development process is essential for some industries, while quick testing and better products are the main benefits for others.

Combine is growing and the vision is to continue to improve technology around the world and enter the next level. As a step in order to reach this goal we have recruited a new People and Culture Manager, and her name is Emelie Hägglund. She will be working from our office in Gothenburg, and has a lot of exciting plans and ideas for our future operations.

How relevant is technical debt? Knight Capital lost 465 million dollars in 45 minutes due to unexpected behavior from obsolete experimental code. Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s internal motto from the catchy "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure" in 2014. Also in 2014, Google researchers started to publish a series of articles on the (hidden) technical debt in machine learning (ML) systems. What’s scarier than owning technical debt is unconsciously owning technical debt. If the debt stays unnoticed, it will be compounding in silence and become unbearable eventually. As much of technical debt in ML systems is hidden, you should start knowing your enemy now.

An eective usage of irrigation water is required since the world's water demand is increasing. To develop irrigation controllers pursuing this purpose, reinforcement learning implementation could be an interesting step towards smarter automated controllers. This article investigates if Q-learning can be used in order to minimize irrigation amount.

Codex is the latest extension of OpenAI’s GPT-3 large transformer-based language model, pushing the limits of what artificial intelligence can do in the world of natural language generation. One of our engineers was given access to a limited release beta preview of the Codex API and this article explores some of the interesting things they discovered whilst playing around.