SnowFlake Upcoming IPO
(B) The recent surreal time, due to Covid 19, has been a challenge for many start-ups in Silicon Valley since the capital markets have been dried for new IPOs. Without […]
A Kafkaesque Sky In a Kafkaesque Year
(E) I woke up today wondering if it was still the night or a new day. The sky was red! And, my car front window was covered with ashes. According […]
Developing Autonomous Decision Making Systems with Deep RL
(T) I really enjoyed watching this fun video from Professor Sergey Levine on autonomous decision making systems using deep reinforcement learning. Most of the content is somewhat “high level” but […]
Angélique Kidjo Singing Lonlon with Ravel’s Bolero!
(E) I had such a blast listening to Angélique Kidjo singing her song, Lonlon, with Vincent Niclo. The music is Ravel’s Bolero. Stop everything, and just listen to it… Additionally, […]
Machine Learning Models for Autonomous Vehicles
(T) Waymo’s principal scientist Drago Anguelov recently highlighted the latest innovations of Waymo’s machine learning models for its autonomous vehicles at CVPR 2020. In a previous blog article, Waymo (ChauffeurNet) […]
Exploring Causal Inference for Business Decisions
(B) I had the great privilege, while being a student at UCLA, to have Professor Judea Pearl as a professor. A few years after I graduated from UCLA, Professor Pearl […]
The Dark Universe and the Dark Energy Survey
(E) Stanford University’s KIPA (The Kalvi Institute for Particles Astrophysics and Cosmology) offered many online lectures this summer. See below some of my favorite recent lectures. This Tuesday, August 11th […]
“King Lear” Online Today and Tomorrow
(E) Like many other summer festivals, you will be able to watch this year “King Lear” production of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival online. Usually, the performances are held in […]
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Insane Number of Parameters!
(T) I finally had a chance to start studying OpenAI’s GPT-3. GPT-3, like GPT-2 provides many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, and in particular reading comprehension, summarization, translation and question […]
KPIs and Metrics for Consumer and Infrastructure Products
(B) I have been recently thinking how to propose KPIs for an infrastructure-oriented product versus KPIs for a consumer-oriented product, and how they might differ. A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) […]
Intermezzo – Music@Menlo Online Chamber Music Festival
(E) How do you experience art online without the intimacy, the conviviality, and the emotional connection that live performances do? My favorite summer chamber music festival, Music@Menlo, will be online […]
When what Looks like a Bad Idea is a Good Idea?
(B) I really enjoyed this video from Chris Dixon venture partner at Andreessen Horowitz at Y Combinator‘s Start-up School. Mr. Dixon rightly articulates the goal of a venture investor which is […]
Aujourd’hui La Fete de la Musique Virtuelle
(E) There are today many opportunities to celebrate La Fete de La Musique ,also known as World Music Day, virtually, as many events have been canceled due to the coronavirus […]
How to Learn Faster? Multi-Task and Meta-Learning to the Rescue
(T) One of the key goals of many data scientist teams is to develop models faster for new use cases and new applications. To that end, “transfer learning” which aims […]
COVID-19 – Day 206: Looking back at the Mistakes that Caused Human Lives
(E) Looking back at the mistakes that caused human lives, Professor Philippe Parola, directeur de service de soins et d’unité de recherche à L’Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseilles, looked back […]
How to be a Successful Machine Learning Product Manager?
(B) Someone from LinkedIn emailed me this week about a virtual meet-up “AI/ML: in Product Management: Applications and best practices for leveraging AI/ML in products“, organized by the LinkedIn Women […]
A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning for Product Managers
(B) I taught a machine learning class to Product Managers two years ago. I have slightly updated the content of that class. A lot of Product Managers working on machine […]
Covid-19 – Day 158: A SARS-CoV-2 Protein Interaction Map to Repurpose Antiviral Drugs
(E) Excellent research from UCSF, Institut Pasteur, Gladstone Institutes, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find the right antiviral drugs for Covid-19: “A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map […]
