Keeping Net Neutrality
The Internet belongs to everyone. This is why the Internet has become the communication infrastructure for our entire world over the last two decades. And, we need to protect that. […]
The Internet belongs to everyone. This is why the Internet has become the communication infrastructure for our entire world over the last two decades. And, we need to protect that. […]
(T) A friend of mine had the good idea to invite me to a public lecture from Professor Roger Blandford from Stanford’s KIPA (Kavli Institute for Particles Astrophysics and Cosmology) […]
(T) If you are interested to learn and share your experience and expertise in functional programming, reactive microservices, and data pipelines for machine learning, you definitely want to attend this […]
(E) I had the pleasure to see Katzelmacher yesterday night, a play from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, produced by the Stanford Theater and Performance Studies. In German, Katzelmacher is a derogatory […]
(T) It is a blast to see a young social entrepreneur willing to start new ventures for the good of global society. So is the case of Boyan Slat, a 23-year […]
(T) Not so long ago, everyone was saying “there is an app for everything’. Maybe, we should now change that sentence by “there is a machine learning algorithm for everything”, […]
(E) I had the great privilege to attend the last performance of La Traviata at the San Francisco Opera conducted by Music Director Nicola Luisotti. For the last few years, […]
(T) This week-end, at PayPal in San-Jose, thousands of Silicon Valley engineers will attend Silicon Valley Code Camp prepared and supported by hundreds of volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp […]
(T) Uber hosted this month a meet-up to share its various internal machine learning initiatives on September 12 at its headquarters in San Francisco. Uber mission is to provide reliable […]
(B) Following is the part II of the case study that I wrote, and which illustrates how successful products are the result of learning products that previously failed in the […]
(B) Following is the part I of a case study that I wrote, and which illustrates how successful products are the result of learning products that previously failed in the […]
(E) Two of my co-workers were affected by the Equifax security breach. Reddit has two excellent threads about the Equifax security breach – what to do? and protecting yourself against identity […]
(E) I had the great pleasure to attend “The Many Faces of Farces” last night at the Stanford Repertory Theater. The Stanford students played Anton Chekhov’s The Bear, The Proposal, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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”. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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) 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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]