Increasing User Retention
(B) User retention is a challenge for every mobile app developer. With over 1.5 million apps on both the Apple App Store and Google Play for users to choose, retaining […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
This Week-End: Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Evergreen Valley College in San-Jose, 2,429 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp prepared and supported by 265 volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp in the […]
Computational Awareness on Your Mobile and Wearables
(T) Researchers at Hiroshima City University have developed a 17 grams wearable for the ear called the Earclip-type Wearable PC. The wearable is controlled through inputs from its infrared sensors […]
Baidu Research in Artificial Intelligence
(T) I attended last week three presentations from the Baidu AI Lab in Sunnyvale, part of the SF Big Analytics meet-up in San Francisco. Professor Andrew Ng’s Stanford University Professor […]
Raising or Not Raising Interest Rates – That is Now the Question for Policy Makers?
(B) When Mr. Ray Dalio, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Bridgewater, talks, I just stop what I am doing, listen to him and try to understand what he is […]
Dow Down 1000 this Morning – Fundamentals Valuations and Psychology
(B) At the same time that I was taking my breakfast this morning, I heard about the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 1,000 points! To try to understand […]
Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day
(B) Even if you are not planning a new venture in the soon future or you are not planning to acquire a new venture in the soon future, reading and […]
Google Research in Deep Learning
(T) I attended last month a presentation from Ilya Susdskever from Google Research about Deep Leaning, part of the SF Big Analytics meet-up in San Francisco. Ilya, along with Alex […]
Deciphering the Internet of Things With a Developer Eye
(T) When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we used to say “The Network is the Computer”…now maybe that has changed and… “The Sensor is the Computer”. It took thirty years […]
The Decline of the Price of Silicon PV Cells
(B) The quest toward highly efficient solar photovoltaics (PV) cells is still rapidly advancing. That progress is well summarized by the declining price of silicon photovoltaics (PV) cells. While there […]
The Finest Summer Chamber Music Festival
(E) The Thirteenth Season of Music@Menlo one of the best music festivals in San Francisco Bay Area, organized by Music Directors David Finckel and Wu Han, is starting today until […]
Deep Dive and History of the Greek Debt
(B) John Cassidy from the New Yorker has written a good summary of the true story of the Greek debt and today’s Greek historical vote against austerity. Mr. Cassidy’s article […]
Facebook Research in DeepFace
(T) Facebook has definitely pioneered many new techniques for face recognition. This month, the social networking company is launching a new app “Moments” to get from your family and friends […]
Google’s Data Center Switching Fabric
(T) Google on its Cloud Platform Blog and at the 2015 Open Networking Summit (ONS) disclosed for the first time some details about the architecture of its latest data center switching […]
Today La Fete De La Musique in Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is taking place today on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
Second Festival of French Classical Music
(E) The second Silicon Valley Festival of Classical Music starts tonight at the Tateuchi Recital Hall in Mountain View. The first concert tonight at 8 pm will feature Ensemble San […]
Learning AngularJS
(T) No doubt that all front-end JavaScript developers are rushing to learn AngularJS. Out of all JavaScript framework (Angular, Backbone, Ember…) for front-end Web developments definitely Angular seems to be […]
Reducing Water Consumption by 35% from 2013
(E) I went a few weeks ago to a meeting organized by CalWater in an elementary school in Atherton where I learned that I have to reduce, like everyone else […]
The Darpa Robotics Challenge for Semi-Autonomous Ground Robots To Help During a Disaster
(T) Darpa had its Robotics Challenge over this weekend in Pomona in Southern California. “Launched in response to a humanitarian need that became glaringly clear during the nuclear disaster at […]
Wacky, Awesome, and Joyous Maker Faire 2015
(E) This year, I noticed a lot of interest into Marker Faire, from Facebook requests to even ads in my neighborhood, probably because of its 10 year anniversary for the […]
How Google Manages its SDN Network
(T) I attended this week a presentation at Google from one of the network architects Bikash Koley. The topic of the presentation was about how Google manages its SDN network. […]
Be Prepared!
(E) I attended last week a two-hour basic emergency preparedness class from the US Geological Survey and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District (MPFD). The geologist from the USGS did […]
The Innovation Sandbox
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last year, the winner was RedOwl […]
