Enter the next level

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.

Collaborative robots – also known as cobots – have become more attractive compared to the traditional robots previously employed in industrial settings. The main features that distinguish cobots from industrial robots are their lightweight structure, limited power and force, simple interface, and inherited safety guarantees. Having these features means cobots and humans can physically collaborate with each other to accomplish a task. The intention for the employment of cobots is to be an efficient and safe assistant to humans when working together. Cobots have been a great help to humans in both health and non-health related fields.