Prioritizing Features in a Road Map
(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 […]
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Scaled Machine Learning Conference @ Stanford
(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 […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2017
(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 […]
Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning @ Google Cloud Next
(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 […]
Angular 2 and the Future of HTML 5 Apps
(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 […]
TensorFlow Dev Summit
(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 […]
The Cryptographers Panel
(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 […]
2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
(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 […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2017
(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 […]
The First Solar Road
(T) While Elon Musk recently announced Telsa’s first solar roof titles in Southern California, the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royale, announced at the end of […]
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
(B) Bill Gates has recently announced the launch of the Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) fund, a fund that will invest over $1 billion in scientific breakthroughs that have the potential […]
The Quantum Computational Universe – Part II
(T) Following is the second lecture on the Quantum Computational Universe given by Professor Patrick Hayden. Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened […]
The Quantum Computational Universe – Part I
(T) Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened to the public, by Stanford Physics faculty on recent fundamental advances in theoretical physics. I […]
The San Francisco Opera Has a New Voice: Lianna Haroutounian
(E) I have attended over the years many performances of the San Francisco Opera: Carmen, La Boheme, Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Salome…And so, I had the privilege to hear […]
Data Science for Sustainability
(T) There are many data science meet-ups in the Bay Area mostly about the latest algorithms and tools, but very few are focusing on a specific application domain such as […]
Wireless Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys to Walk
(T) An incredible result from neuroscientist Gregoire Coutine and his team from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. They implanted a wireless implant bypassing spinal-cord injuries in paralyzed […]
Scala 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 next […]
The Democratization of Analytics
(T) I found an interesting segmentation of the various types of analytics from an IBM’s article promoting its IBM Power Systems: “Descriptive analytics: This type determines what is happening based […]
AI for Dummies: History and Techniques
(E) An excellent and fun article to read, if you want to understand the recent developments and most popular applications of AI, Roger Parloff’s in Forbes, ”Why deep learning is […]
DARPA Cyber Security Programs
(T) Interesting interview from Bloomberg’s Emily Chang with Arati Prabhakar, director at DARPA, this week, from self-driving cars to self-driving ships. More interesting are Mrs. Prabhakar’s comments on cybersecurity, in […]
IoT Botnet Mirai Today in Action in Dyn’s DDoS
(T) Large-scale Internet attacks are now reaching a point where their impacts are incredible. Leveraging Mirai a botnet that launches attacks from DVRs, IP Cameras and other IoT devices, multiple […]
Helping Haiti Recovering from Hurricane Matthew
(E) Please help Haiti recovering from Hurricane Matthew. While Jeremie, a coastal city of Haiti was just starting to prosper since the 2010 Earthquake that killed over 200,000 Haitians, Hurricane […]
So Many AI and ML Product Announcements from the Big Players…
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
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