08.27.17 Recap

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Uber Picks Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as chief executive officer

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel self-driving car alliance

Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

Winner-takes all effects in autonomous cars

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Such good commentary from Venkat.

The Boring Company is building a hyperloop

Tesla developing self-driving tech for semi-truck

The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups

Amazon launches Macie - a new platform powered by machine learning

Handheld spectral analyzer turns smartphone into diagnostic tool
Love to see great work come out of the Big10!

Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice: On-device Deep Mixture Density Networks for Hybrid Unit Selection Synthesis

Amazon will put 1,600 Echo Dots in Arizona State University’s engineering student dorms
Interesting move by Amazon and great experience for students to get some practical experience with emerging technologies. Would be cool to see more companies follow suit in a similar fashion.

The Coinbase Seed Round Pitch Deck
Always enjoy taking a look back to the beginning. Offers some perspective into how far things have come and all the hard work that goes into making great companies great. Also, did I catch a word cloud in there? 😉  Keep up the good work Coinbase!

Similarly, Garrett Camp offers a look into The Beginning of Uber after sharing one of their original pitch decks

a16z YouTube channel

Google launches Chrome Enterprise subscription service for Chrome OS
Google Cloud pushes further into the enterprise.

Walmart, Kroger & Nestle Team with IBM Blockchain to Fight Food Poisoning

And a lot happening in mobility:

Uber Weighed Changes to Autonomous Vehicle Unit

Uber in talks with NSW government to fill Sydney's public transport gaps

Ford, China's Zotye Auto plan JV to build electric vehicles

Infiniti unveils all-electric concept with next-gen Nissan Leaf technology

Cloud driver profiles mean any Tesla could automatically become your Tesla

Volkswagen is finally putting an electric Microbus into production

Waymo patents flexible vehicle that loses rigidity in accident event

GM's Maven assembling building blocks for ride, delivery services

06.04.17 Recap

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It Could Be 10 Times Cheaper To Take Electric Robo-Taxis Than To Own A Car By 2030

“Is this going to destroy the company? If not, let them test it.”
Love that ethos.  💯   [Also, Reid's @MastersOfScale is pretty great]

Delphi joins self-driving alliance with BMW, Intel

Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer

OpenAI Baselines: DQN

As Profit Dwindles, Ford Is Said to Replace Its C.E.O. with its director of autonomous vehicle research

Self-driving car technology: When will the robots hit the road?

Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars

Zuckerberg Asks Harvard Grads to Fight Isolationism, Nationalism

The Unbundling Of Excel
☝️  I've been hot on this trend for awhile now

This is Jupiter? Giant planet surprises scientists in Juno’s first flyby

China's GSR Nears $1 Billion Deal for Nissan Battery Unit

AlphaGo retires from competitive Go after defeating world number one 3-0

Zillow announces $1M prize for anyone who can improve the algorithm for its Zestimate
Always like to see these open innovation challenges 🙌

When the Patient Is a Gold Mine: The Trouble With Rare-Disease Drugs

Faraday Future Said to Plan $1 Billion Raising as Main Backer Struggles

Facebook to launch ParlAI, a testing ground for AI and bots

Why Google’s CEO Is Excited About Automating Artificial Intelligence

Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices

How AI Startups Must Compete with Google

Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?

I trained a Word2Vec model on FoxNews broadcasts:  This is what it thinks about the world.

 

04.09.2017 Recap

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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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10.23.16 Recap

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Reid Hoffman at Startup School with Sam Altman by Y Combinator
"Anyone inventing products should be able to articulate a...robust theory of human nature." Always enjoy hearing Reid talk, this being no exception. Great insights and interview with Sam.

Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition by Microsoft Research
Major advances in speech recognition by Microsoft Research -- essentially, as accurate as a human. Here is the research paper, worth the read.

And now, a major appearance by POTUS...

Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence by WhiteHouse.gov
As a follow up from the RFI, the White House posted a report on what they perceive to be the future with AI. Plenty to dig into here, but if you are interesting in more of the policy, check out the National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan.

Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving cars, and the Future of the World 
The president in conversation with MIT's Joi Ito and WIRED's Scott Dadich on how AI will shape the future.

Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List for You by Jason Tanz
President Obama outlines imperatives for the Silicon Valley and industry leaders respond...

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10.16.16 Recap

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Annnd, we're back. Continuing to map various readings, notes, and musings over the weeks.

Differentiable neural computers by Google DeepMind
Blog post on DeepMind's recent work on adding memory to neural networks (see below for paper).

Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory by Google DeepMind
The associated paper in Nature from DeepMind mentioned above ☝️.

Graph Powered Machine Learning at Google by Sujith Ravi
Highlights Google's work with graph-based, semi-supervised learning. Pretty awesome work where they are taking multi-graph representations of data and are pairing them with nodes of concepts and edges connected by similarities.

Large Scale Distributed Semi-Supervised Learning Using Streaming Approximation by Sujith Ravi and Qiming Diao
A paper from the Sujith Ravi (author of the Google post above ☝️) that covers some of this work.

The Hive is the New Network by Arjun Sethi
Networks are so 2015, or so they say. Arjun Sethi from Social Capital outlines the notion of a 'hive' and its implications for products and companies.

We don't sell saddles here by Stuart Butterfield
Found this old memo from Stuart Butterfield to the team as they built Slack. Great principles for early stage companies to embrace and hits on core topics from building great product, to selling, to driving change, to execution. TL;DR - Build something people want. Market from both ends. Sell the innovation, not the product (to which he noted, we're not selling "a group chat system...what we're selling is organizational transformation). Who do we want our customers to become? How do we do it? ("We do it really fucking good.") Why? ("Because why the fuck else would you even want to be alive but to do things as well as you can? Now: let’s do this.")...

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