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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]