Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2019
(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 Wien from […]
Playing the Korngold Violin Concerto with Brio – Léa Bourgade and Paul Philips
(E) I adore listening to Paul Philips, Conductor of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra (and also the Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University) describing how he orchestrates a delightful musical program […]
The Unfolding of the Climate Change Crisis Imminent
The IPCC has published a new report on “the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels”: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC We have clearly now entered a phase […]
Fooling Humans with Adversarial Examples
(T) Adversarial examples introduce small changes to an image that leads the model to misclassify the input image. Instead of recognizing a cat, the model will recognize a dog even […]
The Beauty of Generative Models
(T) Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have a key asset: a huge amount of data from their customers. And with data, you can do so much! But what if you […]
Everyone can Dance Now…
(T) Four students of UC Berkeley, Caroline Chan, Shiry Ginosar, Tinghui Zhou, and Alexei A. Efros have developed a not-so-simple but efficient way based on GAN (Generative Adversarial Models) to […]
General Magic and the Magic Cap
(E) After Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, and before Netscape and Google, one of the most innovative start-ups close to downtown Mountain View in the early 90s was General Magic! […]
Prof. Daskalakis Winning the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Nevanlinna Prize laureate is announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
Prof. Birkar, Figalli, Scholze, and Venkatesh Winning the 2018 Fields Medals
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal laureates are announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
Erwin Tang – Changing the World When You are Only 18 Years Old!
(T) Qantamagazine has a fantastic article about the story of Erwin Tang “Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager.” Long story short, in her paper posted online earlier this […]
Zero Hour
(E) It is so refreshing to see teenagers fighting together for climate justice, many of them marching today in particular, in Manhattan and Washington D.C. Those teenagers simply want the […]
From Paris to Vienna
(E) The Sixteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best classical music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us rediscovering and traveling to the thriving European metropolises from […]
Today La Fete De La Musique in Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
When Too Tall Might be Too Tall!
(E) The New York Times has published a very interesting article “San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble” about the risks of building taller and taller, in the San Francisco downtown when […]
Machine Learning Platforms and Data Pipelines at Google, Facebook and Uber
(T) When you are a small start-up of fewer than 20 employees, you obviously have only one machine learning platform for all your analytics and services. That is not obviously […]
Google TensorFlow Developer Summit
(T) Google had yesterday its second TensorFlow (TF) developer summit at the Computer Museum in Mountain View. This second summit was quite different from the first one. While the first […]
Stanford Scaled Machine Learning Conference
(T) I had the opportunity to attend last Saturday, the third Scaled Machine Learning conference @ Stanford University organized by Professor Reza Zadeh, and his venture Madroid. The speakers were […]
Entrepreneurship: Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2018
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The […]
Have Fun Out There Among the Stars
(E) Despite his disabilities, Stephen Hawking lived life to its fullest. He was an inspiration for all of us. As President Obama Twitted: “Have fun out there among the stars, […]
SysML Conference @ Stanford
(T) Stanford University Computer Science department held last month its first SysML conference which: “is a new conference targeting research at the intersection of systems and machine learning. The conference […]
Saving the Oasis Beer Garden in Menlo Park
(E) The biggest threat to Silicon Valley probably lies in its inability to control its economic expansion. The continuous demand for office space and housing are driving the price for […]
The Expansion of the TensorFlow Platform
(T) I had the opportunity to attend this week IBM Index Developer conference at the Moscone Center. In particular, I attended on Tuesday the Open Community Meetings on TensorFlow (and […]
Biggest Intraday Plunge for the Dow: 1,600
(B) The Dow’s highest closing record was 26,616.71 set on January 26, 2018. On Friday, the Dow fell by 666 points and dropped below 25,000. Today, Monday, it fell briefly by […]
Google Brain Research in 2017
(T) As he did last year, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Brain Team and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of the […]
Dow 25,000: Enjoy the Ride – be Ready for the Storm
(B) Did your financial adviser ever tell you that your 401K portfolio will grow on average by 7% a year? Well in 2017, with a diversified portfolio invested in domestic […]
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