(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 […]
(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 […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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”. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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) This is the second of the two public lectures given by Professor Eva Silverstein on black holes and cosmological horizons that I attended at the Stanford Institute of Theoretical […]
(E) I attended a fantastic lecture from Professor Eva Silverstein from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics (SITP). This is the first of two public lectures given by Professor Eva […]
(T) This week Uber had its Elevate Summit conference to announce its vision for “urban air mobility”. This week also, Silicon Valley startup Kitty Hawk, partly funded by Google Larry […]
(E) Imagine if you could use your smartphone to send and receive same-day packages with your friends and customers, at the price of your choice. And that you could also […]
(T) I had the opportunity to see, last month at the Scaled Machine Learning conference at Stanford University, an impressive demo from Professor Reza Zadeh from Stanford University about Matroid, […]
(B) Better, faster, cheaper. That was the three words that were written on the whiteboard of a senior product manager working with me in my first Silicon Valley start-up. Below […]
(T) I had the opportunity to attend last Saturday, the second 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 Winter 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The top 7 […]
(T) This week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Google had its annual Cloud conference, Next, focusing on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google made many announcements regarding GCP’s […]
(T) Just received that O’ Reilly free video – https://goo.gl/OtcTK4 – from Brad Green, from Google, about Angular 2 and the future of HTML 5 Apps. Angular 2 was released […]
(T) This week Google had on Wednesday @ Googleplex a one-day dev summit on TensorFlow. There were not too many sessions but all session videos are available. Following are my […]
(T) This week was the RSA Security Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Most of the session videos are online. If you do not have the time to […]
(B) Hired, an online job searching service, based in San Francisco has published an interesting survey about the state of tech salaries. The survey includes Asia Pac and EMEA and […]
(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 […]
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