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Actual Silicon Valley Startup Gets Inspiration From HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Startup

WSJ.com: WSJD - Technology

A eureka moment struck, recalls Mr. Rippel. "Hey, hold on, we could do this for real." The two Ph.D.s quickly decided to try in reality what HBO's fictitious startup was trying on screen. Ever since, the pair of Facebook Inc. alums-turned-startup founders have been living a case of life imitating art imitating life. HBO's comedy series, which began its run in 2014, tells the story of scrappy startup Pied Piper, which hits on a brilliant algorithm for compressing information so it can zip through the pipes of the internet more quickly.


'Silicon Valley' Finale Roundtable: Can the Show Go Anywhere From Here?

WIRED

When Silicon Valley came back this season, viewers may not have known what to expect, but they certainly knew what not to expect. T.J. Miller's much-ballyhooed exit meant that the show would be without its most dependable (if incompetent) trickster. Since the HBO show's inception, Erlich Bachman had been the perfect agent of chaos: shortsighted, greedy, and insecure enough to constantly undercut the Pied Piper gang without being an actual antagonist. Couple his departure that with the show's increasingly how are they gonna get out of this--oh, they just did narrative curlicues, and even fans would have been forgiven for assuming the worst for Season 5. Is that how the newest batch turned out? The season, which wrapped up last night, felt as ripped-from-the-headlines as other years--this time cryptocurrency flameouts, Tesla, and Sophia the robot got the parody treatment--but it also added some new variables to the mix.


The Google v. Uber lawsuit is confusing, until you watch 'Silicon Valley'

Mashable

Google and Uber are set to duke it out in court, and the fight is far from simple. The good news is, though, that as art imitates life which then often imitates art, HBO's Silicon Valley can help you understand this quarrel. On Thursday, Alphabet (Google's parent company) announced that it's taking Uber to court over self-driving car technology that it claims a former employee stole to start another company, which Uber then bought because of the technology that person allegedly stole. SEE ALSO: Inside Uber: Women either'drink the Kool-aid' or suffer Cases like this are confusing from the get-go, but all the moving parts make this one particularly hard to follow. Silicon Valley isn't a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, but the major issues at hand are similar enough to provide some idea of what's actually going on here.


New Heuristics for Interfacing Human Motor System using Brain Waves

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

There are many new forms of interfacing human users to machines. We persevere here electric mechanical form of interaction between human and machine. The emergence of brain-computer interface allows mind-to-movement systems. The story of the Pied Piper inspired us to devise some new heuristics for interfacing human motor system using brain waves by combining head helmet and LumbarMotionMonitor For the simulation we use java GridGain Brain responses of classified subjects during training indicates that Probe can be the best stimulus to rely on in distinguishing between knowledgeable and not knowledgeable