So Many AI and ML Product Announcements from the Big Players…
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
(T) This weekend, at Evergreen Valley College in San-Jose, 2,515 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Silicon Valley Code Camp prepared and supported by 193 volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp […]
(B) You have probably seen on TV the new commercial from GE – “Sarah: GE is the perfect mix of digital and industrial – an ideal combination like peanut butter […]
(T) Many start-ups have been embracing Storm for real-time processing of big data into their cloud applications. A Storm topology consumes streams of data, and processes those streams in arbitrarily […]
(T) In Silicon Valley, you learned more by meeting people in an informal setting, than through business meetings and conferences. A friend of mine invited me yesterday to a party. […]
(T) The media have just broadcasted this week that 300 Megabytes of data stolen from an NSA server has been posted on the Internet. The data seems to be cyberweapon […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The […]
(T) I just received an e-mail that the b8ta store at 516 Bryant Street in Palo Alto will have for one week Pepper – the emotional robot from Aldebaran in […]
(T) Researchers have been working on quantum encryption for a long time. Quantum encryption is based on quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD algorithms can leverage well-defined quantum states (or photon […]
(E) The Fourteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically this year and explore, according to the festival […]
(E) I cannot agree more with Mr. Adam Gopnik from the New Yorker – there are many cases, where we can do much about the WHY but in all cases, […]
(T) The architecture and implementation of iOS and Android are both similar when you compare feature-to-feature, and different when you compare implementation-to-implementation. Very basically, the iOS security model is based […]
(B) Like many of us, I still do not understand the Brexit vote. Is it a distrust of the benefits of the global economic system? A return to nationalist movements […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]