Reducing Water Consumption by 35% from 2013
(E) I went a few weeks ago to a meeting organized by CalWater in an elementary school in Atherton where I learned that I have to reduce, like everyone else […]
The Darpa Robotics Challenge for Semi-Autonomous Ground Robots To Help During a Disaster
(T) Darpa had its Robotics Challenge over this weekend in Pomona in Southern California. “Launched in response to a humanitarian need that became glaringly clear during the nuclear disaster at […]
Wacky, Awesome, and Joyous Maker Faire 2015
(E) This year, I noticed a lot of interest into Marker Faire, from Facebook requests to even ads in my neighborhood, probably because of its 10 year anniversary for the […]
How Google Manages its SDN Network
(T) I attended this week a presentation at Google from one of the network architects Bikash Koley. The topic of the presentation was about how Google manages its SDN network. […]
Be Prepared!
(E) I attended last week a two-hour basic emergency preparedness class from the US Geological Survey and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District (MPFD). The geologist from the USGS did […]
The Innovation Sandbox
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last year, the winner was RedOwl […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2015
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2015 Demo Day but for the first time, the event was over two days. […]
From Black Holes to Superconductors – Part 2
(E) This is the second lecture from Professor Sean Hartnoll from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, that attempts to articulate some of the properties of Black Holes in order to better understand […]
2015 SXSW Accelerator Finalists
(B) This year, I did not notice a big crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. SXSW is mostly about music, film, and entertainment. But with the evolution of computing […]
Young and Experienced Performers
(E) Qu’il fait bon de vivre à San Francisco si vous aimez l’art! How nice is it to live in San Francisco if you love art! In less than three months, violinist […]
From Black Holes to Superconductors – Part 1
(E) I attended a lecture from Professor Sean Hartnoll from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, which has many well-known physicists such as Professor Leonard Sussking for his research in String Theory and Professor Andrei Linde for […]
Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
(T) The DeepMind Technologies team in London has just published a paper in Nature: “human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”. The Deep Neural Network called Deep Q-Network (DQN) combines a Reinforcement Learning algorithm with Experience Replay […]
The Internet Economy
(B) I had a chance to read some of the research of the 2014 Economy Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole about the innovation and the adoption of new technologies. Probably his most […]
The World’s First Solar-Powered Family Car
(T) TechCrunch had its 8th Annual Crunchies Award at the San Francisco Symphony’s Davies Hall this week. You can read everything that happened at the event on the TechCrunch’s site. I […]
Changing the World after 50!
(E) The New Yorker has an excellent article “The Pursuit of Beauty” and a fun video to watch this week about the life of Yitang Zhang, from the University of New […]
The Impact of the Facebook News Feed on Your Life
(T) Social networks like computer networks can be considered in a simplified way as having both a connection and application layers. The connection layer in a computer network aims to […]
Quantum Biology
(T) Over the holidays, I discovered the book from Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology”. Doctor Al-Khalili is a pioneer […]
Authentic and Wise Advises to a Junior Programmer
(T) As I am doing a fair amount of programming in Python, I am always discovering new resources from the “extensive” Python community. I found that video from a talk […]
Software Defined Internet Exchange (SDX)
(T) I attended on Thursday a talk from Professor Nick Feamster from Georgia Tech at Stanford University to enable inter-domain routing for Software Defined Networks (SDN) at Internet Exchange Points […]
Mining of Massive Datasets
(T) I was delighted to take Mining of Massive Datasets MOOC on Coursera this quarter from Professor Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman from Stanford University. The course goes […]
