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 […]
(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 […]
(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 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 […]
(T) Adversarial examples introduce small changes to an image that leads the model to misclassify the input image. Instead of recognizing a cat, the model will recognize a dog even […]
(T) Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have a key asset: a huge amount of data from their customers. And with data, you can do so much! But what if you […]
(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 […]
(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! […]
(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 […]
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal laureates are announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
(T) Qantamagazine has a fantastic article about the story of Erwin Tang “Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager.” Long story short, in her paper posted online earlier this […]
(E) It is so refreshing to see teenagers fighting together for climate justice, many of them marching today in particular, in Manhattan and Washington D.C. Those teenagers simply want the […]
(E) The Sixteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best classical music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us rediscovering and traveling to the thriving European metropolises from […]
(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 […]
(E) The New York Times has published a very interesting article “San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble” about the risks of building taller and taller, in the San Francisco downtown when […]
(T) When you are a small start-up of fewer than 20 employees, you obviously have only one machine learning platform for all your analytics and services. That is not obviously […]
(T) Google had yesterday its second TensorFlow (TF) developer summit at the Computer Museum in Mountain View. This second summit was quite different from the first one. While the first […]
(T) I had the opportunity to attend last Saturday, the third Scaled Machine Learning conference @ Stanford University organized by Professor Reza Zadeh, and his venture Madroid. The speakers were […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The […]
(E) Despite his disabilities, Stephen Hawking lived life to its fullest. He was an inspiration for all of us. As President Obama Twitted: “Have fun out there among the stars, […]
(T) Stanford University Computer Science department held last month its first SysML conference which: “is a new conference targeting research at the intersection of systems and machine learning. The conference […]
(E) The biggest threat to Silicon Valley probably lies in its inability to control its economic expansion. The continuous demand for office space and housing are driving the price for […]
(T) I had the opportunity to attend this week IBM Index Developer conference at the Moscone Center. In particular, I attended on Tuesday the Open Community Meetings on TensorFlow (and […]
(B) The Dow’s highest closing record was 26,616.71 set on January 26, 2018. On Friday, the Dow fell by 666 points and dropped below 25,000. Today, Monday, it fell briefly by […]
(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 […]
(B) Did your financial adviser ever tell you that your 401K portfolio will grow on average by 7% a year? Well in 2017, with a diversified portfolio invested in domestic […]