Nikolai Yakovenko

GANs will change the world

It’s New Year’s 2017, so time to make predictions. Portfolio diversification has never been me, so I’ll make just one.

Generative Adversarial Networks — GANs for short — will be the next big thing in deep learning, and GANs will change the way we look at…

A Man for All Markets: 📚 Review

Ed Thorpe’s recent autobiography is worth reading, just for the first three chapters (50 pages). He tells a vivid story of growing up as an off-the-charts high IQ kid in a normal, lower middle class/working class American family in the 1940s.

AI will be good for jobs (and humans)

Everyone is saying that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs. I think they’ve got it…

Short Book Review: Black Edge (inside story of SAC Capital) by Sheelah Kolhatkar 💸

Last month I flew to California with five books. The first one I finished was Black Edge.