Paris Machine Learning Newsletter, Summer 2016

We've had more than 150 speakers in the past three seasons. Two of them made the news this summer: Danny Bickson (E9 Season 1) one of the co-founders of Graphlab then Dato then Turi and Arjun Bansal from Nervana systems (E12 Season 3). Turi just got acquired by Apple for 300M, and Nervana got acquired for 350M by Intel. In a different direction, at the last meetup, Raymond Francis explained to us what got picked by the LA Times a month later, Curiosity now uses Machine Learning on Mars. This news is exciting on two levels: First, robots can now explore the universe better and second, it definitely brings some perspective when we talk about the dichotomy between exploration and exploitation in our discussions.