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Why Bitcoin is the largest Ponzi scheme in human history

Why Bitcoin is the largest Ponzi scheme in human history
by Vivek Wadhwa on 12-29-2017 at 12:00 pm

During the late ’90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as “monetizing eyeballs,” “stickiness,” and “B2C” to justify the ridiculous valuations of Internet companies. They claimed conventional methods were inapplicable in valuing the dot-com companies — which had noRead More


China is right: The world doesn’t need Silicon Valley

China is right: The world doesn’t need Silicon Valley
by Vivek Wadhwa on 12-25-2017 at 7:00 am

Ever since the Chinese Government banned Facebook in 2009, Mark Zuckerberg has been making annual trips there attempting to persuade its leaders to let his company back in. He learned Mandarin and jogged through the smog-filled streets of Beijing to show how much he loved the country. Facebook even created new tools to allow China… Read More


Is there anything in VLSI layout other than pushing polygons? (2)

Is there anything in VLSI layout other than pushing polygons? (2)
by Dan Clein on 10-04-2017 at 12:00 pm

One of the important changes that happen between 1984 and 1988 is the hardware platforms development. Calma evolved, mainframe S140 with 2 combined monitors per terminal in S280 with 2 individual monitors per terminal. This meant that from noisy and darker rooms we move to more quiet and lighted rooms. We doubled the speed and theRead More


Burning Man 2017 – My vacation is your worst nightmare

Burning Man 2017 – My vacation is your worst nightmare
by Tom Simon on 09-17-2017 at 5:00 pm

I often use this space to report on industry events I have attended and what I have learned at them. So, this article will be a slight, but not complete, departure from this. I am reporting on my experiences at Burning Man this year. For the unacquainted, Burning Man is a temporary city of around 70,000 people in a remote desert-like … Read More


Life Imitates Art

Life Imitates Art
by Bernard Murphy on 09-12-2017 at 7:00 am

Neural nets, neuromorphic computing and other manifestations of artificial intelligence are popular topics these days. You might think of this as art (as in the art of computing) imitating life. What about the other direction – does life ever imitate art in this same sense? A professor at ASU’s Biodesign Institute thinks it can,… Read More


If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?

If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
by Vivek Wadhwa on 08-02-2017 at 12:00 pm

Scientists in Portland, Ore., just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology Review. A team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health & Science University is reported to “have broken new ground both in the number of embryos experimented upon and by demonstrating… Read More


Amazon eating Whole Foods is nothing as entire industries are about to become toast

Amazon eating Whole Foods is nothing as entire industries are about to become toast
by Vivek Wadhwa on 06-22-2017 at 12:00 pm

I doubt that Google and Microsoft ever worried about the prospect that a book retailer, Amazon, would come to lead one of their highest-growth markets: cloud services. And I doubt that Apple ever feared that Amazon’s Alexa would eat Apple’s Siri for lunch.

For that matter, the taxi industry couldn’t have imagined that a Silicon Read More


Communication with Smart, Connected Devices and AI

Communication with Smart, Connected Devices and AI
by Daniel Payne on 04-12-2017 at 12:00 pm

I’ve lived and worked in Silicon Valley for 13 years, but since 1995 I’ve been in the Silicon Rainforest (aka Oregon) where the world’s number one semiconductor company Intel, has a large presence, along with dozens of smaller high-tech firms. In the past year I’ve started to attend events organized … Read More


The Next Big Thing in Deep Learning

The Next Big Thing in Deep Learning
by Bernard Murphy on 02-14-2017 at 7:00 am

I mentioned adversarial learning in an earlier blog, used to harden recognition systems against bad actors who could use slightly tweaked images to force significant misidentification of objects. It’s now looking like methods of this nature aren’t just an interesting sidebar on machine learning, they are driving major advances… Read More


Machine Learning for Dummies

Machine Learning for Dummies
by Kartik Hosanagar on 02-08-2017 at 7:00 am

I write a lot about data-driven algorithms, in particular those informed by Machine Learning. I thought it would be nice to give the low-down on machine learning for the uninitiated. Below, I discuss four essential questions. The answers are based, in part, from a recent discussion with Pedro Domingos, author of The Master AlgorithmRead More