Google Brain Research in 2018
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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! […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(T) I had the opportunity to attend last Saturday, the second Scaled Machine Learning conference @ Stanford University organized by Professor Reza Zadeh, and his venture Madroid. The speakers were […]
(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 […]
(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, […]