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A GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) was called out as the ‘most interesting idea in ML in the last 10 years’ Think of them as a model that can generate new content. It has 2 networks – a generator and a discriminator. The generator creates fake samples and tries to fool the discriminator into believing that …
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AI isn’t 42. It isn’t the answer to everything. ‘Can we use AI to…..’? is something one hears oft. We’ll use AI to solve it, say startups, to gnarly problems A human centric approach to designing AI starts, rightly so, with the user problem in focus’ ‘How can we solve for x?’ ‘Can AI solve …
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The unheard story of how we almost blew the vaccine Have you wondered how the COVID vaccine got to the hands of the general population so incredibly quickly? Here is the brilliant story of an immigrant who refused to give up – thankfully so. Their breakthrough saved the world from the worst of the pandemic—and …
The rise of the FANG companies is no accident. They are all connected on one common thread – The Aggregation theory. So how does this winning playbook work?….. This is from one of my favorite strategy blogs – Stratechery. Here is a summary in 5 points – The value chain for any given consumer market …
What is the origin of the term Metaverse? Have you read of Snowcrash? It’s one of Naval’s recommended readings. A 1992 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 first coined the term – Metaverse It was used to describe a place where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the …
After Facebook (17 years), Tesla became the second fastest company to hit the $1 trillion valuation mark. Tesla is now worth as much as 19 other automakers, including Toyota, GM, Honda, and Nissan, combined. What is interesting is that Tesla’s value is 15x higher than Ford’s, even though Ford brought in $115+ billion more in revenue last year. It …
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“By 2023, 75% of organizations that exploit distributed enterprise benefits will realize revenue growth 25% faster than competitors” – Gartner #3 Distributed Enterprise – Top Technology Trends 2022 1) WHY – Gartner pegs two reasons for the rise of this trend a) COVID driven remote-first working had organizations require different tools and increased …
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“Research shows that up to 74% of data is not analyzed in most organizations and up to 82% of enterprises are inhibited by data silos” Top Technology Trends 2022 – #2 Data Fabric 1) WHAT : A data fabric architecture provides a connective tissue between data endpoints— enabling the full breadth of data management capabilities …
Top Technology Trends 2022 – #1 Generative AI “By 2025, generative AI will account for 10% of all data produced, from less than 1% today” 1) WHAT : Generative AI refers to “programs that can use existing content like text, audio files, or images to create new plausible content”. In layman terms, it enables computers …
Elon Musk, Memes and Tesla In one of his Clubhouse appearances, Elon Musk was asked about his love of memes: “It is safe to say that you might be the master of the memes, and in fact you had a quote that “Who controls the memes controls the universe.” Can you just explain what you …