Stanford Scaled Machine Learning Conference
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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). […]
(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) “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 […]
(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 […]
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. […]
(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) […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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”, […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]