A technologist s view of things ...
As you know I have been on a reading binge (Here, Here and Here), usually finishing 2–3 books a week ! Focussing mostly on Sci-Fi and mystery. Discovered Richard K.Morgan ! Very interesting, and as an amazon reviewer says “The whole system and the workings of society are very well thought out” Turns out it is also a [ ]
The background of this blog is the GPU Technology Conference 16 Amsterdam keynote by nVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Extremely eloquent, very knowledgeable, articulate and passionate – all great ingredients for a memorable keynote and you won’t be disappointed. He keeps the energy up for 2 hours – no curtains, no diversions, a feat on it’s own [ ]
Same as my post in Linkedin Autonomous cars do bring out interesting nuances to the normal things that we take for granted and don t think twice about ! Business Insider s article Here’s why self-driving cars can’t handle bridges fits this category. Bridges are really hard, and there are like 500 bridges in Pittsburgh.” Of course, [ ]
It is an experience to read and brood over the writings of Isaac Asimov. If you are just starting, I envy you you have a wonderful journey ahead of you !! But don t just start a series randomly, the journey has a very disciplined roadmap, so that the mysteries of the world of robots [ ]
In view of the recent developments, the Automated Vehicle Symposium 2016 and the SAE On-Road Automated Vehicle standards work is more relevant. The Connected Car meetup is organizing a meeting with the standards committee; of course, I plan to attend the meetup. As I was contemplating, extending my experience from OASIS, W3C, IETF and EU FP6 STFs, [ ]
Unfortunately it takes extreme repercussions for us to feel in our bones, the limitations of our technologies. Three points : I have included relevant links about this incident at the end of the blog (incl the AutoPilot v8 with Radar). Informative read One of my parent died in an automobile accident; so I do know, [ ]
As a designer of AI autonomous behaviors, this week was pretty interesting: First a paper from Google Concrete Problems in AI Safety and then An article @slate on MSFT CEO Satya Nadella s views The Partnership of the Future Both are must read discuss for the AI community. The abstracted 8 rules are : This [ ]
I am spending this weekend with Yann LeCun (virtually, of course) studying the excellent video Lectures and slides at the College de France. A set of 8 lectures by Yann LeCun (BTW pronounced as LuCaan) and 6 guest lectures. The translator does an excellent job especially as it involves technical terms and concepts ! (I will post [ ]
In the eve of the probable final NBA game of the season, and with the Green suspension, it is interesting to note the skill that the team has. Interestingly the agility, domain IQ and the team spirit are equally applicable in business as well ! I came across 4 insightful blogs that tell the story of a [ ]
Copy of my post in Linkedin London has changed a lot since I visited last ! Interesting constructions at least this part of the town. Am at the Aloft London Excel, ready for our tutorial at the StrataHadoop London Building machine-learning apps with Spark . I will be talking aboutApache Spark/GraphX along with my esteemed colleagues Jayant [ ]