I’ve spent the last six months heads down building a new machine learning tool called Weights and Biases with my longtime cofounder Chris Van Pelt, my new cofounder and friend Shawn Lewis and brave early users at Open AI, Toyota Research, Uber and others. Now that it’s public I wanted to talk a little bit about why Continue reading Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later
I ve really been enjoying writing machine learning hacks for O Reilly. My latest one is a face recognizing doorbell check it out in detail at Build a talking, face-recognizing doorbell for about $100
I ve been writing a fun column on machine learning and cheap hardware for O Reilly. One of the articles was How to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face-recognizing drone for $200. It was a really fun project, but the coolest part is that a Microsoft employee, Mark Torr took the project and improved it and then wrote up Continue reading The Voice Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey
Technology makes some types of jobs obsolete and creates other types of jobs — that’s been true since the stone age. While in the past, machines have replaced people in jobs that require physical labor, we’re increasingly seeing traditionally white collar jobs augmented by machines: financial analysts, online marketers, and financial reporters, just to name a few. Continue reading Artificial…
AI has been making a lot of progress lately by almost any standard. It has quietly become part of our world, powering markets, websites, factories, business processes and soon our houses, our cars and everything around us. But the biggest recent successes have also come with surprising failures. Tesla impressed the world by launching a Continue reading What we can learn from AI’s mistakes
I love workflowy. I’ve used every day for years. I think if everyone used it, the world would be a more productive, happier place. If you haven t tried it, it’s basically Gmail for your to do lists. Remember when you had to put your emails in folders so you could find them? I really tried Continue reading The Best Organization Tool for a Disorganized Person
A few years ago, I realized that I purport to run a data driven organization but I am the least data driven when it comes to my company s most important process: hiring. I wanted to change that, so I put all the hires I made throughout my career in a spreadsheet and looked for correlations. Continue reading Metrics and Hiring Part 2