02.26.17 Recap

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Attacking Machine Learning with Adversarial Examples by Ian Goodfellow, Nicolas Papernot, Sandy Huang, Yan Duan, Pieter Abeel & Jack Clark

Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning by Barret Zoph and Quoc Le

Ford is putting $1 billion into an AI startup, Detroit’s biggest investment yet in self-driving car tech by Johana Bhuiya

Understanding Agent Cooperation by DeepMind

A Low-Power Artificial Synapse Could One Day Interface With the Brain by Rachel Courtland and IEEE
Attn: Elon Musk 😉  Jokes aside, this is very interesting work and is something I am tracking, as well.

Stipe Atlas by Stripe (Great work 👏 )

Building Global Community by Mark Zuckerberg

Inside Facebook's AI Machine by Steven Levy

Navigating Mid-Success by Sam Altman

Doing the Right Thing > Doing Things Right by Mark Suster

What great managers do daily by Ryan Fuller and Nina Shikaloff...

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02.12.17 Recap

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How to Build a Hard Tech Startup by Jason Rosenthal
MVP --> MVTV (minimally viable technical validation). Offers some interesting perspectives on chasing hard tech problems. 

ACLU joins YC by Sam Altman
This is awesome. And timely. Excited to see how things go. More non-profits, NGOs, and even governments could benefit from such an experience. 💯

Managing With Immature AI by Sam Ransbotham
Just because we are in an AI spring doesn't mean it's always fully baked. With so much hype, the current state of AI doesn't always live up to its promise and early products can disappoint. Sam offers why managers should not sit on the sidelines and wait until it develops further — they should start incorporating AI into business processes now.

Cybersecurity Experts Uncover Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts by  Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy by YCombinator
Very important issues with lots of room for innovation and disruption

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub funds first crop of 47 investigators by Jocelyn Kaiser
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