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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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