Just 5 months ago we started Zeroth . And this Sunday, September 25 will be the application deadline for my first cohort. I'm experienced with accelerator programs. Before Zeroth, I was at Techstars, first in New York and then starting the first international Techstars program in London alongside Jon Bradford and Jess Williamson. Through that experience, I worked with over 50 startups, managed over 120 mentors, and hired over 40 Associates and Hackstars.

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I released Gorgonia on Thursday. Gorgonia is a library like Theano or TensorFlow, but mainly written in Go. It provides the necessary primitives for creating and executing neural networks and machine learning algorithms. But the original version is about 80,000 LoC (though most of the lines of codes were different experimental variations of assembly code). I managed to cut down 50,000 LoC to something more manageable. In this post I want to outline the release of Gorgonia, and share some of the reasoning regarding the design of the library, as well as go thru some of the weirdness found in the library. If you're interested, here's the video (otherwise, skip to the meat): In the beginning, there was Theano.

BigML's Summer 2016 Release is here! GMT 02:00) for a FREE live webinar to learn about the newest version of BigML. We'll be diving into Logistic Regression, one of the most popular supervised Machine Learning methods for solving classification problems. Last Fall we launched Logistic Regressions in the BigML API to let you easily create and download models to your environment for fast, local predictions. With this Summer Release, we go a step further by bringing Logistic Regression to the BigML Dashboard.

The Yomiuri Shimbun New businesses and services are being created through next-generation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robots in a so-called "fourth industrial revolution." How will it change our work and lifestyles? This is the first installment of a series in which we examine these questions. Fanuc Corp., a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, has been conducting research on cutting-edge technologies at its head office in Yamanashi Prefecture. General Manager Kiyonori Inaba explained that his company aims to develop "robots that operate while'talking' to each other."

Salesforce.com Inc.'s plans to enhance its sales and marketing software with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities were first leaked by company CEO Marc Benioff several weeks ago. But yesterday's unveiling of Salesforce Einstein still caught everyone by surprise, stealing the show from rival firm Oracle Corp. just hours before its annual Oracle OpenWorld tech conference kicked off with Larry Ellison's keynote. Salesforce has managed to upstage Oracle in spectacular fashion with the announcement of Einstein, a new deep learning platform that the company says will become the foundation of all of its future Software-as-a-Service offerings. The platform, which was years in the making and supposedly cost hundreds of millions of dollars through a combination of acquisitions and in-house development, will be baked into just about every Salesforce product there is, with packages available for Sales, Service, Marketing, Analytics, Commerce, Community and IoT. Einstein will be added to some products for free, while others will be charged as add-ons, the company said.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Video Games Are So Realistic That They Can Teach AI What the World Looks Like Jordan Pearson Motherboard "Games these days are so realistic, in fact, that artificial intelligence researchers are using them to teach computers how to recognize objects in real life. Not only that, but commercial video games could kick artificial intelligence research into high gear by dramatically lessening the time and money required to train AI." GENETICS: This New Gene Technology Could Wipe out Entire Species--to Save Others Chelsea Harvey The Washington Post "Scientists from around the world are currently gathered in Hawaii for an international conservation congress... One topic on the table is a form of genetic editing called'gene drive' technology, which can be used to alter--or even wipe out--entire species... Gene drives are a naturally occurring phenomenon--they're found in all kinds of species in nature. But it wasn't until recently, with the advent of new genetic engineering tools, that scientists realized they could be harnessed by humans." FUTURE OF LEARNING: Teaching Me Softly Alan S. Brown Nautilus "Vapnik is one of a growing body of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers discovering something that teachers have long known--or at least, believed--to be true: There is a special, valuable communication that occurs between teacher and student, which goes beyond what can be found in any textbook or raw data stream. By bringing the tools of computation and machine intuition to the table, AI researchers are giving us a more complete picture of how we learn."

Salesforce has unveiled Einstein, a deep learning platform it hopes will form the foundation of all of its future SaaS offerings. Touting years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars in both in-house development and acquisitions, Einstein will be baked into pretty much every major product Salesforce offers. Salesforce is rolling out Sales, Service, Marketing, Commerce, Community, Analytics and IoT packages that will include the Einstein AI tools, in some cases for free and in others as charged add-ons. The roles played by Einstein will vary by service, but in most cases the aim is to add predictive and analytics capabilities to existing Salesforce services. One example is Sales, where Einstein will be used to help predict when a lead has a better chance of turning into a sale, or alerting salespeople when a contact might be considering a competitor.

Internet of Things is ready to create business growth of 16 Trillion globally with 50 billion devices by 2020. That is the old story. This proliferation of IoT is creating many cloud platforms and tons of data carrying business growth insights and new machine learning applications leading to Robots, Drones and Bots. Come hear from Sudha Jamthe about the next wave of IoT Disruptions and how this is leading to growth in Artificial Intelligence to a new works of business opportunities.