Richmond Alake
Founder/AI Consultant at AscXend
Expertise: Machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
Education: University of Surrey

Richmond Alake is the founder of the AI consulting firm AscXend with a background in computer vision, robotics and machine learning. He also serves as a staff developer advocate for MongoDB and has worked in software development and machine learning roles since 2016. Alake previously served as machine learning architect for Slalom Build and as a computer vision engineer for Loveshark. Alake has taught machine learning and AI certification courses for the Imperial College Business School. He holds a master’s in computer vision, machine learning and robotics from the University of Surrey.  

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Retrieval augmented generation systems improve LLM responses by extracting semantically relevant information from a database to add context to the user input. Here’s how to build your own.
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Bubble sort is a sorting algorithm that uses comparison methods to sort an array. It has an average time complexity of O(n^2). Here’s what you need to know.
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Heap sort is a sorting algorithm that organizes elements in an array into a binary heap, and then sorts that heap by moving the largest element in the array. Here’s how to implement it in Python.
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Understand the basics behind the technique cosine similarity that is used across different fields and domains of machine learning.