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Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Brian Costa Brian Costa on Modern Data Lakes 19 October 2023

Some of the smartest minds in philanthropy are backing the concept of a simple yet powerful national ID system. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tata Trusts, the Omidyar Network and the Pratiksha Trust have all gotten involved with this movement because of its foundational capabilities for enabling a wide range of social programmes. They have put their resources

Machine Learning with Finance Data (Forex) in R, H2O and MinIO

Brian Costa Brian Costa on AI/ML 20 October 2022

This tutorial will use R, H2O, and MinIO to build a very simple statistical arbitrage model using foreign exchange (Forex) data.

A Complete Workflow for Log File Anomaly Detection with R, H2O and MinIO

Brian Costa Brian Costa on Operator's Guide 22 August 2022

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a production capable log processing workflow using R, H2o and MinIO.

Anomaly Detection with R, H20 and MinIO

Brian Costa Brian Costa on AI/ML 16 June 2022

Learn about anomaly detection and autoencoding with R, H2O and MinIO.

Machine Learning Using H20, R and MinIO

Brian Costa Brian Costa on H20 18 May 2022

I’ve been working with neural networks and machine learning since the late ‘80. Yes, I’m that old. The first product I bought was California Scientific Software BrainMaker Professional. I loved that product because it got me started with neural networks. I still have it: It was a 3 layer neural network product that came with source code in

MinIO and Apache Arrow Using R

Brian Costa Brian Costa on Apache Arrow 17 May 2022

Arrow here, Arrow there, Arrow everywhere. Seems like currently you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an article or blog post about Apache Arrow. Most seem to be addressing a developer audience and are based on a Python and Spark style development platform. Today I’m going to write about using Apache Arrow with MinIO from the

The Architect’s Guide to Using AI/ML with Object Storage

Brian Costa Brian Costa on Architect's Guide 22 April 2022

This post first appeared in The New Stack. With the constant evolution of the enterprise, machine learning and artificial intelligence have become board-level initiatives. Marketing claims aside, capabilities that seemed almost mythical a few years ago are now taken for granted as AI/ML becomes baked into every software stack and architecture. This is becoming known as AI-first architecture. In