Posts

Paginated listing of my posts

• GANs Part 2–Counterfeit Money

  Published: Jun 20, 2018 |  at  03:51 AM

  More on generative adversarial networks with an example.

• Generative Adversarial Networks

  Published: Jun 15, 2018 |  at  06:43 AM

  Intro to GANs and why this architecture has been so interesting.

• Learned Index Structures–Why ML is a Foundational Technology

  Published: Dec 18, 2017 |  at  02:29 AM

  Really exciting paper on how AI is a stacking technology that improves other technologies--in this case improving efficiency of data structures.

• The Moore's Law of AI

  Published: Nov 8, 2017 |  at  07:38 PM

  Exponential growth in microprocessors, the web, and....AI?

• Histories of Deep Learning

  Published: Oct 23, 2017 |  at  11:12 PM

  Multiple retrospectives on how people invented deep learning over the last half-century.

• Undergrad Math for the C-Suite

  Published: Aug 29, 2017 |  at  04:57 AM

  Two stories about what leads to successful adoption of machine learning in the executive suite.

• Excel Can't Run the Fed

  Published: Aug 6, 2017 |  at  04:53 PM

  Constantly moving the goalposts of what counts as automation and AI.

• More AI Skepticism

  Published: Jul 29, 2017 |  at  07:38 PM

  Gary Marcus posits that AI claims are overhyped.

• Chollet, Deep Learning, and The Singularity

  Published: Jul 26, 2017 |  at  06:03 PM

  François Chollet brief and clear explanation of deep leaarning.

• Kaufmann is Right

  Published: Jul 25, 2017 |  at  02:06 PM

  The analogy that the brain is like a computer is a dangerous one, and blocks the progress of AI.

• HBR on AI and Business

  Published: Jul 24, 2017 |  at  11:29 AM

  Short link to Brynjolfsson and McAfee.

• Starsky Robotics

  Published: Jul 22, 2017 |  at  07:14 AM

  Self-driving cars aren't one thing; perhaps it's many different products like trucking versus commuter cars versus...

• Kai-Fu Lee and Augmented Intelligence

  Published: Jul 14, 2017 |  at  03:52 AM

  Augmented intelligence might be a more useful term than artificial intelligence.

• Learning HTML in 1994

  Published: Jun 25, 2017 |  at  07:38 PM

  Is studying linear algebra in 2016 like learning about Internet protocols in 1994?

• Relational Database Systems and AI

  Published: May 15, 2017 |  at  09:38 PM

  What can the history of RDBMS's teach us about the likely adoption of AI?