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GPT-3: Is this the beginning of Skynet?05 August, 2020
In this week's Exponential Chats, some of the team members responsible for Amalgam's development will have a chat about Open AI's recently announced language model GPT-3.
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Top 6 Engineering Challenges for Machine Learning12 June, 2020
It is already 2020, and on top of a pandemic and civil unrest, our Machine Learning community still has to face challenges when working their way through creating models to solve the world's problems.
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity15 June, 2015
Disease is a word that carries such a visceral meaning: we've all had (or still have) one at some point, and have experienced the pains and challenges that come with it. They always reminds us of mortality and how fragile we all are and keeps us on our toes. Some diseases , however, are actually a design made to increase your longevity and this books points out several of them and goes deep in explaining the scien
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Experiences with Fail Safer28 February, 2015
During the past couple weeks I have been slowly bringing www.failsafer.com to a temporary halt. The whole process is not over yet, but although this halt isn’t meant to be permanent. Fail Safer have been a great entrepreneurial and technological experience in my life, and it pains me to not have the time I wish I could have to get past the beta phase and actually launch and market it. Even though it was a beta release, Fail Safer was already fully functional and it was
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The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity15 January, 2015
General Relativity have always been an intimidating topic for most people. The book makes it specially clear while recounting the story of the beginnings of the theory when almost all scientists showed strong resistance in accepting and even debating about the subject. Even to this day, the theory faces resistance from a small portion of the community. Although the book title calls it perfect, the extension of our understanding about it is rathe
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The Innovators - How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution10 January, 2015
This is not the first Biography I've read that was written by Walter Isaacson . He is a phenomenal writer. The Innovators, I have to admit, didn't impress me as much. The book consists of micro biographies of dozens of personages involved in the advancement of technology since Ada Lovelace . It is an interesting read, but as a Computer Scientist I was already familiar with all of those personages to the leve
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Thank You!28 June, 2014
As one of the finalists to be part of the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.415229,-122.06265&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.415229,-122.06265 (Singularity%20University)&t=h] I started a campaign to raise the funds to pay for my tuition. It was a tough sell, given that I was an alternate student and being admitted was depending on a class finalist dropping out before the program started
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Life at The Speed of Light - From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life16 January, 2014
Quickly passing through the most important events in the history of biology and genetics , the author goes through his own endeavors pioneering the human genome sequencing and successfully creating the first form of life with a synthetic genome . It goes as deep as describing the procedures in details, so you've got to have some previous experience with the topic i
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Mission to Mars - My Vision for Space Exploration16 January, 2014
Buzz Aldrin was not the first man to walk on the Moon , but wasn't short from Neil Armstrong in making history. This book is a collection of ideas he had gathered with the help of hundreds of specialists he discussed with throughout the years since he came back from the Moon. These ideas are focused on achieving and sustaining trips to Mars [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma
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American Turnaround - Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA13 January, 2014
After working for AT&T for 44 years, the author found himself with an invitation from the White House to become the chairman of General Motors and help it turn away from his bankruptcy path. Notwithstanding the fact that he knew nothing about cars, he took on the challenge and left after it paid in full it's loans and right before its IPO. Very interesting story, shows how GM management was blind, thinking that the crisis was the only reason why they've got where they were. Nobody there though
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Sending The Singularity University Shield to the Edge of Space06 January, 2014
Based at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, California , Singularity University is a one of a kind. It was devised with the goal of teaching students about exponential technologies and how to use them to address humanity's greatest challenges. View of Hangar One, the huge dirigible hangar, with doors open at both ends. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Since I first hear
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything04 January, 2014
Most know for its Space Oddity performance on board of the International Space Station , Chris Hadfield wrote this book in a format that resembles more a memoir than a guide. Reading it, nevertheless, was both very entertaining and educational. Having a special interest in Space Exploration and Aviatio
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