(T) So far the best-known technique to mitigate adversarial examples is adversarial training. Adversarial examples are images that have been modified to fool a generative adversarial network (GAN). And in […]
(E) Summer is definitely my favorite season. And, Music@Menlo one of my favorite events of the summer. This year, the seventeenth season of Music@Menlo runs from July 12th to August […]
(E) Over the years, I have noticed more and more RVs parked on the streets of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Redwood City. I cannot believe that a solution has […]
(B) The New York Times just published an article about Evernote: “A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel”. I do remember looking for a […]
(E) Over the last few years, the Bay Area has been focusing on an unstoppable real estate growing development of condos and business properties (which still does not even satisfy […]
(E) I heard a few weeks ago on KDFC, how J’Nai Bridges forever prepared herself to play the role of Carmen in Bizet’s opera: “Bridges made the decision to follow her […]
(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 was kindly invited to attend the first “ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science” yesterday at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The summit organized by […]
(T) Erwin Tang, last year at the age of 18 rocked the world of quantum-based algorithms, by has given recently a very interesting talk titled “Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: […]
(E) Two years ago, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco offers Monet: The Early Years. This year, the De Young Museum is offering us Monet: The Late Years. And, […]
(B) Professor Tina Seelig, who teaches creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, has started LEAP, a new podcast series on “how to launch a career, unpacking the often overlooked […]
(T) This week, I had the opportunity to attend for the third time, the third Scaled Machine Learning conference that was not held at Stanford University but the Computer History Museum in […]
(T) Earlier this year, I tried to summarize in one slide, the top 20 scientists who contributed the most to the field of artificial intelligence over three generations. Obviously, this […]
(T) OpenAI released this week its second-generation language model GPT-2. That model provides reading comprehension, summarization, translation, and question answering. It is so good so OpenAI fears that it could […]
(E) Paulina Our lives are almost over! Arkadina I know dear, but what can we do? “Cue long silence” Is life tragic or hilarious? Are mankind failures tragic or hilarious? […]
(E) I went this weekend to visit the Pacific Grove’s sanctuary for the Monarch. It was depressing to see so few butterflies. Please plant some milkweed in your garden this […]
(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 […]
