In Short We Need an Energy Miracle
(E) Bill and Melinda Gates, in their 2016 annual letter are responding to some high school students questions: “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” While Melinda responded […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Nielsen’s Violin Concerto Played by Nikolaj Znaider
(E) I have been attending many wonderful performances at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra but yesterday night was the first time, I witnessed a performer performing “an encore” under the […]
Playing the Go Game with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
(T) Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer programmed with brute force analysis, defeated Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 over six games. IBM’s Watson won Jeopardy! in 2011. This week the […]
Everything That You Wanted to Know about Spark and were Afraid to Ask
(T) I had the opportunity to go last October to the Data Science Camp 2015 of the San Francisco Bay ACM. The keynote of the conference was given by Joseph […]
CES 2016: Meet Nixie the First Wearable Camera that Can Fly
(T) One of my favorite products from CES 2016 is probably Nixie: “the first wearable camera that can fly”. What’s an incredible innovative product! But there were a lot of […]
Financial Markets in 2016: Volatility and Pains?
(B) The major U.S. stock market indexes closed out this week with losses of nearly 6% or more as concerns about China and a global economic slowdown is persisting. And […]
NIPS 2015 Conference in Montreal
(T) Last week in Montreal, was the twenty-ninth annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). NIPS is probably one of the most well-attended machine learning and computational neuroscience conferences. […]
Paris COP21 – Actions Must Follow Talks
(E) The Roman Empire, the Mayas, the Easter Islanders were some of the most advanced civilizations from the past. All of them still surprise us by their accomplishments in politics, […]
The Latest in Web Technology: Design with Performance, Angular 2, React, Falcor, CSS 4, Node…
(T) I attended last month the HTML 5 Autumn 2015 DevConf at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. There were many interesting talks and presentations, and it was a […]
Thomas Piketty – Capital in the 21st Century
(B) Part of the Stanford Ethics in Society Series Arrow Lectures, French economist Thomas Piketty did a talk on Friday at Stanford University about his 2013 book “Capital in the 21st Century”. The […]
Taking Programmability Down to the Wire
(T) Finally, I was able to attend a talk from Stanford University Professor Nick Mckeown last month at the Silicon Valley SDN meet-up. Professor Mckeown, with Martin Casado (one of his Ph.D. students), and […]
A Few Observations for Developing and Marketing Successful Machine Learning Applications
(B) As I have been working on two machine learning projects for the last two years: one for an intelligent assistant application, and the other one for a predictive analytics […]
Siliconvicts: Silicon Valley New Line of Tech Clothing :)
(E) Following is an offer that I received from Cameron Lindsay, the founder of Siliconvicts Clothing, if you need new cloth for your product team, your engineering team, your marketing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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