Whether we unlock our phones with facial recognition, shout voice commands to our smart devices from across the room or get served a list of movies we might like… machine learning has in many cases changed our lives for the better. However, as with many great technologies, it has its dark side as well. A major one being the massive, [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
What’s the ideal store supply level for a product? How can we determine the number of future sales? Is it possible to reduce the number of product deliveries without going out-of-stock? ACA is building an intelligent stock management system for a customer with about 30 retail locations. Between these stores, that customer sells several [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
Training machine learning models can take up a lot of time if you don’t have the hardware to support it. For instance with neural networks, you need to calculate the addition of every neuron to the total error during the training step. This can result into thousands of calculations per step. Complex models and large datasets can result [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
In my previous blog post, I emphasized the importance of gathering data. However, in some cases you might not have any suitable data available. You might have raw data, but perhaps it’s unlabeled and unfit for machine learning. If you don’t have the financial resources to label this data, or you don’t have a product like reCAPTCHA to do [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
In the near future, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring your company to the next level. Increasing productivity, use of resources, maintainability, staffing efficiency and much more. But before that can happen, you need to collect data and provide enough examples to train your AI algorithms. Whether your company is active in the [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
In our last blog post about GDPR, we looked at the state of GDPR 8 months after it went into effect. Today, we’ll look at what the content of the job of a Data Protection Officer exactly is. What could a Data Protection Officer (DPO) possibly do besides looking at implementation methods for a European regulation, or answer [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was without question one of the biggest stories of 2018. When the GDPR became enforceable in all European Union Member States on the 25th of May, it introduced quite a number of important changes that impacted organizations on processing the personal data of employees, customers, prospects, [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
Hi everyone, First and foremost: a huge thank you to everyone who filled out the survey! We’ve had some very interesting responses as well as some compliments, which is always nice. 😉 Transparancy is one of the core Agile principles we like to put in practice, and it’s no different when it comes to our blog. Therefore, [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Hi! Thanks for checking out the ACA blog website and this blog post in particular. Let me cut right to the chase: we need your help. We’ve been blogging for quite a while now. Our very first post dates back to March 2013! In the last year, we’ve tried to be more consistent in posting blog posts and post one every week. [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Extending the DDM modules in Liferay with custom field types isn’t that easy. This blog post is the result of our attempts to do it. The first part recaps what DDM actually means and where you use it. After that, we show you an example of a flexible custom DDM field type that we created. Finally, the last part of this blog gives [...]
Peter Mesotten
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