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Making Serverless Inference on SageMaker for a multi-input HuggingFace model

Hola! It has been a while since we dove into technical posts. We have been very busy building several deep-learning projects in the mortgage and call center industries, ranging from analyzing bank statements to analyzing human voices. One of the recent projects called for

We are hiring two backend engineers!!!

Overview: Founded in downtown Vancouver, Softmax Data develops our own AI products and offers development services to other clients with the growing need in the field. Our vision is to help companies in conventional industries enjoy the fruits of modern AI. As a backend

Keras Data Generator for Images of Different Dimensions

When using CNN, we often have to provide the dimension of images ahead of time. Note that I used singular, not plural “Dimensions”. That’s because most of the time, it requires us to input tensors of the same dimension. However, we have a

Innovation

Do That "Fundamental" Work NOW

Suddenly, the market is upside down, your team is working remotely, and a good portion of your team probably doesn't have as much on their plate. What to do now?

How to Tame Your CRM Chaos

As your business grows, so will your CRM. Each day, your sales reps add a few more prospects into the mix and over time things start to get out of

internship

My First 2 Months as a Sales Development Representative at Softmax Data

July 19th marks my first two months as a Sales Development Representative with Softmax Data. As a recent graduate with a B.A in anthropology and environmental studies, these past

Why Your Sales Reps Are Ghosting Their CRM

Using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can be intimidating or just plain tedious for sales reps, which is probably why so many avoid it. Everyone knows that using a clean, updated, and comprehensive CRM helps a ton. Helps you sell easier, faster, and more.

deep learning

Tensorflow Keras LSTM source code line-by-line explained

In this blog, I will go through line by line of Keras' LSTM source code to explain how the tensor computations work.

Testimonial by Aaron Ross

We were trying to build out a dataset that would help us map a total addressable market for a client and decide on our initial target account lists. The challenge was, we couldn't build a dataset from stock tools and sources that would give

machine learning

What are inside sales emails? Using machine learning to understand them.

In this blog, we will talk about how to use two different machine learning techniques (LDA and Word2Vec) to analyze and query the topics in sales emails (or all emails)

Applying Machine Learning in Sales Enablement and Sales Operations [Part 3]

In the previous blog, I talked about enhancing Sales Enablement with machine learning. In this blog, I will go into some examples of using machine learning to improve sales operations.

sales operations

AI Revolution: Sales and Sales Operation are the Next [learn how to stay ahead of the competition]

We recently chose to have a focus on offering productized Sales Operation consulting solutions. We got our first client and within four months, we reduced their sales team cost by

revenue opeartions

Applying Machine Learning in Sales Enablement and Sales Operations [Part 2]

In this post, let's talk about how Softmax Data leveraged machine learning to improve sales enablement for some of our clients.

revenue opeartions

Applying Machine Learning in Sales Enablement and Sales Operations [Part 1]

How Softmax Data applied learning in improving Sales Enablement and Sales Operations for some of our clients

sales operations

Is the competition getting the jump on you because they use AI to drive their sales and sales operations? — Softmax Data

We asked one of our clients, a well respected and rapidly growing company in the Vancouver Sales Vertical what impact our AI engine had on their Sales Operations. They told us that within four months we had reduced their sales team cost by 20%

machine learning

CRM Cleaning: Merging Salesforce Objects using SOAP API (with a Python Focus)

We recently helped a client to clean up their Salesforce CRM. First, we made our proprietary solution to find all of the duplicate records that would pass the client’s

database

Brutal-force Migration of Postgres from Azure to AWS (or vice versa)

In this short blog post, I want to show how to move the entire Postgres from one cloud server to another with brutal force.

machine learning

What is machine learning (ML)? How about AI? Why now?

“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” — John Naisbitt. The Era of Big DataWe have entered the era of big data. For example, there are about 60 trillion

machine learning

Multi-input Seq2Seq generation with Keras and Talos

In this technical blog, I will talk about a common NLP problem: Seq2Seq, where we use one sequence to generate another sequence. Add to it, I also illustrate how to use Talos to automatically fine tune the hyperparameters, a daunting task for beginners.

machine learning

Words According to r/Vancouver [Part I], word2vec

Using word2vec to analyze the reddit comments on r/vancouver