Spectre and Meltdown
(T) The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, that we learned this week, are affecting pretty much any microprocessor that is used in any of our computing platforms (mobile, desktops, servers, embedded). […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2018
(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 […]
Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noel
(E) “This Christmas, I am going to be home. And, I wanted to ask where is Home for you? What things do you think of when I say the word […]
Learning with Limited Supervision
(T) The Silicon Valley IEEE AI group had an interesting lecture last month, that I attended, from Stanford’s Professor Stefano Ermon. Many of the recent successes of machine learning have […]
Keeping Net Neutrality
The Internet belongs to everyone. This is why the Internet has become the communication infrastructure for our entire world over the last two decades. And, we need to protect that. […]
Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
(T) A friend of mine had the good idea to invite me to a public lecture from Professor Roger Blandford from Stanford’s KIPA (Kavli Institute for Particles Astrophysics and Cosmology) […]
Scale By the Bay
(T) If you are interested to learn and share your experience and expertise in functional programming, reactive microservices, and data pipelines for machine learning, you definitely want to attend this […]
Katzelmacher
(E) I had the pleasure to see Katzelmacher yesterday night, a play from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, produced by the Stanford Theater and Performance Studies. In German, Katzelmacher is a derogatory […]
Cleaning the Oceans from Plastic
(T) It is a blast to see a young social entrepreneur willing to start new ventures for the good of global society. So is the case of Boyan Slat, a 23-year […]
Machine Learning for Predicting Earthquakes
(T) Not so long ago, everyone was saying “there is an app for everything’. Maybe, we should now change that sentence by “there is a machine learning algorithm for everything”, […]
Grazie Mastro Nicola Luisotti
(E) I had the great privilege to attend the last performance of La Traviata at the San Francisco Opera conducted by Music Director Nicola Luisotti. For the last few years, […]
This Week-End: Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This week-end, at PayPal in San-Jose, thousands of Silicon Valley engineers will attend Silicon Valley Code Camp prepared and supported by hundreds of volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp […]
Machine Learning @ Uber
(T) Uber hosted this month a meet-up to share its various internal machine learning initiatives on September 12 at its headquarters in San Francisco. Uber mission is to provide reliable […]
Part II: Successful products are the result of learning products which previously failed in the marketplace
(B) Following is the part II of the case study that I wrote, and which illustrates how successful products are the result of learning products that previously failed in the […]
Part I: Successful products are the result of learning products which previously failed in the marketplace
(B) Following is the part I of a case study that I wrote, and which illustrates how successful products are the result of learning products that previously failed in the […]
Identity Theft
(E) Two of my co-workers were affected by the Equifax security breach. Reddit has two excellent threads about the Equifax security breach – what to do? and protecting yourself against identity […]
When Tragedy is Dressed as a Farce
(E) I had the great pleasure to attend “The Many Faces of Farces” last night at the Stanford Repertory Theater. The Stanford students played Anton Chekhov’s The Bear, The Proposal, […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2017
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
Controlling Congestion when Surfing the Internet
(T) One of the main reasons why the Internet has been able to sustain ever-growing traffic in its infancy is because of its famous TCP network congestion-avoidance algorithm. The TCP […]
The Glorious Violin
(E) The Fifteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best classical music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us rediscovering the unfolding of chamber music through the “Violin”. […]
Madame Veil
(E) Great political leaders are the ones that will have or had a long-term impact on the well-being of a nation and its citizens. Their policies and actions created the […]
Edward: A Powerful, Complete and Easy-to-Use Library for Probabilistic Modeling, Inference, and Criticism
(T) I had the unique opportunity to take many years ago the class “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems” from Professor Judea Pearl at UCLA. Professor Pearl pioneered the use of […]
Today La Fete De La Musique in 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 […]
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