(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(T) Both Symantec and Kaspersky have disclosed their findings of Regin – the latest discovered military-grade surveillance malware. Symantec has published a good white paper about the capabilities and the […]
(T) I was interested to receive this month IEEE Computer Magazine “special edition” about Software Defined Networks (SDN). Unfortunately, the Magazine focused on describing the present efforts to standardize the […]
(E) Excellent article from Ars Technica for: “Understanding the Ebola virus”. As the title mentioned it: “The virus itself is really nothing special – until it gets inside a human”. […]
(E) The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has just released today its latest Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report. Please read the press release, the report and watch the press conference: Press […]
(T) Niels Bohr believed “that anyone who thinks they can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy doesn’t understand it” while Albert Einstein couldn’t accept quantum mechanics because as he said, “I […]
(B) Most of the early waves of new technology have been adopted and developed by businesses. Since 2000, early adoption of new technologies has shifted from businesses to consumers. Enterprises […]
(E) The White House is now considering robots for winning the fight against the Ebola virus: Intouch health’s remote presence robot, Xenex’s germ-zapping robot, and humanoid robots. A series of brainstorming meetings […]
(E) When I go to Europe, I can obverse how too much market regulations sometimes do not stimulate higher standards of living. But when I am in the US, I […]
(E) There are a lot of ideas of wearables. But the fundamental question is: Will you wear them? Will they be practical? Will they be fashionable? The Skully AR-1 is definitely one […]
(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 4,386 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]
