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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 29, 2016

Machine Learning @ Pinterest

(T) I had the opportunity to listen last month Stanford University’s Professor Jure Leskovecdiscussing Machine Learning @ Pinterest. Professor Leskovec founded Kosei, a start-up that was acquired by Pinterest. He […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 22, 2016

From Mobile-First to AI-First?

(T) If you did not have the chance to attend Google IO this week at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, most of the videos of the talks are now […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 15, 2016

We Need an Energy Miracle

(E) I wrote a few weeks ago an article on Bill Gates encouraging the new generation of young kids to start researching new technologies which will help our world to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 1, 2016

Data Engineering @ Facebook

(T) While in most start-ups, data analysis (analyzing the data), data science (designing the algorithms), and data engineering (developing the data infrastructure) are handled by the same person, at Facebook […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 24, 2016

Decoding the Signal between the Eye Retina and the Brain Neurons to Cure Blindness

(E) Finding a cure for blindness! Bionic eyes, to restore human vision for those suffering from partial or total blindness, have been experimenting over the last twenty years. But what […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 17, 2016

NASA Space Apps Challenge

(E) NASA will have its worldwide space apps hackathon next weekend on April 22-24. The Silicon Valley location for the hackathon will be at SAP Success Factors, South San Francisco. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 16, 2016

Google New Cloud Machine Learning Offering

(T) Google has recently announced its new Cloud Machine Learning offering. Google Cloud Machine Learning leverages many Google products: TensorFlow, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Storage. The initial machine learning Python APIs […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 10, 2016

The Shape of Data

(T) Data has shape. Shape reveals a pattern. That pattern provides insights into the data. This is what and why Topology Data Analysis (TDA) does. TDA attempts to find the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 9, 2016

Into the Woods

(E) In my previous post, I talked about the many benefits of having a side project. Last month, I attended the musical play “Into the Woods” performed by high school […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 3, 2016

Having a Side Project

(E) Venture Capital investor and Blogger Fred Wilson posted a few days ago an interesting article on his blog about having a side project. Mr. Wilson mostly analyzed a side […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 26, 2016

Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2016

(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event:  The top […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 19, 2016

2016 SXSW Start-Up Village

(B) As it is the case every year, SXSW, while being a music, film, and entertainment event, is also showcasing technology and media start-ups in its start-up village. Techcrunch has […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 5, 2016

Weakening Encryption

(T) At the same time that the RSA Security Conference is happening this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, everyone is talking and writing about the battle between […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 27, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 21, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 30, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 23, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 10, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 8, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 19, 2015

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. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 12, 2015

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, […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 7, 2015

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 25, 2015

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 […]

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