The “Slow” but “Steady” Fall of Evernote
(B) The New York Times just published an article about Evernote: “A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel”. I do remember looking for a […]
San Francisco Bay Area be Prepared for the “Big One”
(E) Over the last few years, the Bay Area has been focusing on an unstoppable real estate growing development of condos and business properties (which still does not even satisfy […]
J’Nai Bridges Playing Carmen at the San Francisco Opera
(E) I heard a few weeks ago on KDFC, how J’Nai Bridges forever prepared herself to play the role of Carmen in Bizet’s opera: “Bridges made the decision to follow her […]
Aujourd’hui La Fete de la Musique a Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science
(T) I was kindly invited to attend the first “ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science” yesterday at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The summit organized by […]
Quantum-inspired Classical Linear Algebra Algorithms
(T) Erwin Tang, last year at the age of 18 rocked the world of quantum-based algorithms, by has given recently a very interesting talk titled “Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: […]
The Big LEAP from Tina Seelig
(B) Professor Tina Seelig, who teaches creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, has started LEAP, a new podcast series on “how to launch a career, unpacking the often overlooked […]
Scaled Machine Learning Conference @ the Computer History Museum
(T) This week, I had the opportunity to attend for the third time, the third Scaled Machine Learning conference that was not held at Stanford University but the Computer History Museum in […]
Todays’ Turing Awards to the Three Musketeers of Deep Learning
(T) Earlier this year, I tried to summarize in one slide, the top 20 scientists who contributed the most to the field of artificial intelligence over three generations. Obviously, this […]
OpenAI’s GPT-2 Language Model
(T) OpenAI released this week its second-generation language model GPT-2. That model provides reading comprehension, summarization, translation, and question answering. It is so good so OpenAI fears that it could […]
Exploring Millennial Hopelessness though Chekhov’s The Seagull
(E) Paulina Our lives are almost over! Arkadina I know dear, but what can we do? “Cue long silence” Is life tragic or hilarious? Are mankind failures tragic or hilarious? […]
Saving the Monarch in the Bay Area
(E) I went this weekend to visit the Pacific Grove’s sanctuary for the Monarch. It was depressing to see so few butterflies. Please plant some milkweed in your garden this […]
Google Brain Research in 2018
(T) As he did last year, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Brain Team and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of the […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2019
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from […]
Playing the Korngold Violin Concerto with Brio – Léa Bourgade and Paul Philips
(E) I adore listening to Paul Philips, Conductor of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra (and also the Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University) describing how he orchestrates a delightful musical program […]
The Unfolding of the Climate Change Crisis Imminent
The IPCC has published a new report on “the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels”: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC We have clearly now entered a phase […]
Generative Models, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
(T) Most machine learning models are discriminative. Given a number of features (input data), the model learns how to generate the labels (output data). On the other hand, generative models […]
Everyone can Dance Now…
(T) Four students of UC Berkeley, Caroline Chan, Shiry Ginosar, Tinghui Zhou, and Alexei A. Efros have developed a not-so-simple but efficient way based on GAN (Generative Adversarial Models) to […]
General Magic and the Magic Cap
(E) After Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, and before Netscape and Google, one of the most innovative start-ups close to downtown Mountain View in the early 90s was General Magic! […]
Prof. Daskalakis Winning the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Nevanlinna Prize laureate is announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
