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Reflections on Growth

As a kid, did you have crazy growth spurts over the summer? It turns out there is scientific evidence that we actually do grow more in the hotter months.

Our company has experienced a lot of growth this summer and as the season winds down, we have been reflecting on this insightful blog post by James Clear. James describes two different growth curve patterns — logarithmic and exponential — which come with different expectations.

For example, a lot of the product development we do is logarithmic — it gets harder to squeeze out algorithm gains over time. But building companies (and newsletter subscribers we hope?) is exponential. Neither pattern is better nor worse — it’s simply helpful to be aware of them because frustrations can happen when you expect exponential returns from a logarithmic game, and vice versa.

What’s something you have been working on this summer? And what growth pattern do you think it has?

We look forward to hearing from you. As always, thank you for following along on this journey.

Lina and Sidney
Founders, Edge Analytics

PS — If you have an interesting problem that you’re working on, we want to talk to you! Reach out to us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or info@edgeanalytics.io.

What does Edge Analytics do?

Edge Analytics was born out of a simple desire to work with our friends and do things together that make a positive difference in the world. We are a team of ~10 data scientists with engineering backgrounds that helps companies commercialize technologies into products.

We have had a busy summer!

We launched the Edge Analytics Blog

The Edge Analytics Blog has become a library of our best practices, learnings, and cool projects. Interested in learning how to effectively use GPT-3? Check out the “Getting the Most Out of GPT-3” series by Alex. Want to know more about FPGAs? Daniel discusses how we used FPGAs to develop a sleep tracker. If you’re curious how Edge Analytics got started, check out Lina’s article, “Why the founder of IDEO was right all along”.

We increased our online presence

Check out our new and improved Edge Analytics website! (Scroll to the testimonials section at the bottom. We’re blushing at all the nice things our partners have said about us.) We also launched our LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. Follow along as we post about the team (Vasiliy is building his own house! Ren hiked over 2,500 miles!) and share our latest perspectives on ML and edge computing in our “On the Cutting Edge” series. All of these efforts were led by the incredible Brinnae “she can do it all” Bent!

We hosted a company retreat

This summer we got [almost] the entire team together, rented an AirBnB, and asked GPT-3 to create some exciting team activities for us. Highlights included visiting one of our partners, Cionic, brainstorming the Edge Analytics ProcessTM, and becoming experts at mini golf.

We outperformed Google’s pose estimation model with synthetic data

We used our Synthetic Data API (sign up for the waitlist!) to train a pose estimation model that outperformed both Google’s BlazePose model and CMU’s OpenPose model!

Some of the awesome products we are working on!

Here are just a few highlights from the amazing partners we are working with:

We launched a new NLP-based product with inVibe

inVibe is transforming market research for life science companies by making data collection more efficient, analysis more effective, and insights more actionable. We partnered together to launch a new product using GPT-3. Be sure to follow inVibe on LinkedIn and contact them for your next research project!

We are running clinical studies with Cionic (and currently recruiting!)

It has been a busy summer for one of our longest partners, Cionic, a startup on a mission to help people transcend physical limitations. Be sure to check out their updated website and follow them on Instagram!

Do you know anyone with a mobility challenge? We are currently seeking qualified individuals to test the Cionic Neural Sleeve. Cionic is on a mission to transform treatment and outcomes for conditions ranging from Stroke to Cerebral Palsy, and Osteoarthritis to Parkinson’s.

If you know someone who may be interested, please invite them to sign up here!

Çava Health closed a successful WeFunder campaign

We partnered with Çava Health on the development of the world’s first health-tracking toilet seat and they just closed a successful $500k+ WeFunder campaign! Check out the WeFunder video — you might recognize Lina and Sidney in there!