Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2017
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
Controlling Congestion when Surfing the Internet
(T) One of the main reasons why the Internet has been able to sustain ever-growing traffic in its infancy is because of its famous TCP network congestion-avoidance algorithm. The TCP […]
The Glorious Violin
(E) The Fifteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best classical music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us rediscovering the unfolding of chamber music through the “Violin”. […]
Madame Veil
(E) Great political leaders are the ones that will have or had a long-term impact on the well-being of a nation and its citizens. Their policies and actions created the […]
Edward: A Powerful, Complete and Easy-to-Use Library for Probabilistic Modeling, Inference, and Criticism
(T) I had the unique opportunity to take many years ago the class “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems” from Professor Judea Pearl at UCLA. Professor Pearl pioneered the use of […]
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 […]
Horizon Physics – Part II: Cosmology, Black Holes, and String Theory
(E) This is the second of the two public lectures given by Professor Eva Silverstein on black holes and cosmological horizons that I attended at the Stanford Institute of Theoretical […]
Horizon Physics – Part I: Cosmology, Black Holes, and String Theory
(E) I attended a fantastic lecture from Professor Eva Silverstein from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics (SITP). This is the first of two public lectures given by Professor Eva […]
From Autonomous to Flying
(T) This week Uber had its Elevate Summit conference to announce its vision for “urban air mobility”. This week also, Silicon Valley startup Kitty Hawk, partly funded by Google Larry […]
Dropmi – Sending and receiving packages at the price you think is right!
(E) Imagine if you could use your smartphone to send and receive same-day packages with your friends and customers, at the price of your choice. And that you could also […]
An Easy Way to Find What you Want to See in a Video
(T) I had the opportunity to see, last month at the Scaled Machine Learning conference at Stanford University, an impressive demo from Professor Reza Zadeh from Stanford University about Matroid, […]
Prioritizing Features in a Road Map
(B) Better, faster, cheaper. That was the three words that were written on the whiteboard of a senior product manager working with me in my first Silicon Valley start-up. Below […]
Scaled Machine Learning Conference @ Stanford
(T) I had the opportunity to attend last Saturday, the Scaled Machine Learning conference @ Stanford University organized by Professor Reza Zadeh, and his venture Madroid. The speakers were some […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2017
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2017 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: The top 7 […]
Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning @ Google Cloud Next
(T) This week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Google had its annual Cloud conference, Next, focusing on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google made many announcements regarding GCP’s […]
Angular 2 and the Future of HTML 5 Apps
(T) Just received that O’ Reilly free video – https://goo.gl/OtcTK4 – from Brad Green, from Google, about Angular 2 and the future of HTML 5 Apps. Angular 2 was released […]
TensorFlow Dev Summit
(T) This week Google had on Wednesday @ Googleplex a one-day dev summit on TensorFlow. There were not too many sessions but all session videos are available. Following are my […]
The Cryptographers Panel
(T) This week was the RSA Security Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Most of the session videos are online. If you do not have the time to […]
2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
(B) Hired, an online job searching service, based in San Francisco has published an interesting survey about the state of tech salaries. The survey includes Asia Pac and EMEA and […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2017
(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 […]
