On This Page Background What is blockchain, cryptocurrency and Ethereum? Blockchain @ Berkeley Dangers What does it all mean Background A few months ago, Mayank convinced me to get some Ether (Ethereum cryptocurrency) because it was going to go on a bull run, thanks to high-profile companies backing Ethereum by joining the Ethereum Enterprise AllianceContinue reading “Exploring blockchain and smart contracts with Ethereum dev bootcamp, Blockchain@Berkeley”
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My experience with Udacity Deep Learning Foundation course
If you don’t know what is machine learning, just know this from Francois Chollet (creator of Keras)’s “Deep Learning with Python” book: Classical programming vs. Machine learning After attending the AI Frontiers conference at the beginning of this year, I was amazed, fascinated and befuddled at what actually is machine learning and deep learning andContinue reading “My experience with Udacity Deep Learning Foundation course”
Automatic acquired by Sirius XM!
NOTE: This story here is my personal perspective, it does not represent the views of my employer. 6 years ago, I worked with Thejo Kote on NextDrop. 5 years ago, I joined Thejo on his (then) next adventure, Automatic which launched 4 years ago, that story is here. The premise sounded interesting – what canContinue reading “Automatic acquired by Sirius XM!”
Review of Bear notes app
This is a quick note on why I have started using Bear notes app: What I want Notes app needed. Must support images and attachments. Mobile-first. Absolutely need a notes app that syncs across computer and phone. That’s just how I function. Ideally, there should be a backup option that keeps my notes unlocked ifContinue reading “Review of Bear notes app”
Notes from AIFrontiers conference
My soothsayer friend BG told me last year that “deep learning is the next big thing”. I didn’t know what that meant. A few days ago, I attended the AIFrontiers conference in Santa Clara, California. Now I have a glimpse of what he meant :-) On This Page What is Intelligence? From Analog to DigitalContinue reading “Notes from AIFrontiers conference”
New chinese translation of A Byte of Python
Thank you Mo Lun for creating a brand new Chinese translation of the latest version of A Byte of Python book! In Mo Lun’s words: I am a common journalism student from CYU, Beijing. And actually, I am an absolute newbie in Python programming when I start to translate this book. Initially, it was justContinue reading “New chinese translation of A Byte of Python”
Notes from Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2015
These are my quick jottings during the talks at PGConf SV today: Citus DB (distributed postgresql) will be open sourced citusdb is going open source as a PostgreSQL extension #pgconfsv – Josh Berkus First applause of day as @umurc announces CitusDB is going open source. #PGConfSV – merv Everybody loves Kafka Lots of Kafka loveContinue reading “Notes from Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2015”
Tech: Using Spacemacs
In the past couple of months, I’ve been using and, a first for me, regularly contributing to this open source project called Spacemacs. Spacemacs is a new distribution of Emacs. Think what Ubuntu did for GNU/Linux – Spacemacs is doing the same for GNU Emacs. It combines all the existing great pieces and providing anContinue reading “Tech: Using Spacemacs”
Lessons from The Changelog’s interview of DHH on 10 Years of Ruby on Rails
I was listening to this long interview with DHH by The Changelog while walking around Berkeley, and I found a few points to ponder over: Flow The feeling of “flow” that you experience in programming is the only sustained method of happiness that I know. That’s why I like programming. Fun If programming is whatContinue reading “Lessons from The Changelog’s interview of DHH on 10 Years of Ruby on Rails”
Notes from Redis Conference 2015
Redis Conference 2015 at the Innovation Hangar at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Thanks to sponsors Rackspace, Hulu, Redis Labs, Heroku, and others. Talks list Redis’ 6th birthday today! Redis Keynote by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Pivotal) a.k.a. @antirez Genesis Big equivalence principle : Today’s startups can do everything with everything, but aContinue reading “Notes from Redis Conference 2015”