“TSMixer: An all-MLP architecture for time series forecasting” (Google) “Attention Is All You Need” (a major classic!) “Language to rewards for robotic skill synthesis” (Google) “Consistent Collaborative Filtering via Tensor Decomposition Authors” (Apple) “Speeding Up Text-To-Speech Diffusion Models by Distillation” (Nvidia) “To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm…

One essential document in startup financing journey is the “Cap Table,” short for Capitalization Table. While it may sound like a complex financial document, it is quite simple in its construction and provides the basis for various financial analyses related to a company’s capital structure. Understanding this document is crucial…

Venture investing in the early stage is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of strategic and operational work to achieve key business and financial milestones which are prerequisite for growth equity. No one can do all the work alone. In fact, it requires the right type…

Zach Scheel, P.E., CEO of Rhumbix and I had a lot of fun chatting this week. We discussed digital and data innovation in the construction industry, the impact of artificial intelligence, leadership, company culture, and entrepreneurship. Zach and his co-founder Drew are veterans turned entrepreneurs who have since built a…

Spotify launched Confidence — an experimentation platform: blog and sign up for private beta. (link) “AI chatbot K Health picks up $59M in fresh funding, inks partnership with Cedars-Sinai” (link) “A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks” (NYT) “The case for and against open-source large language models for use in newsrooms” (Digiday) “Multimodal medical AI” (Google) “Learning Iconic Scenes with Differential Privacy” (Apple)

Cyber attacks are getting out of hand, and every organization is vulnerable. Just looking at recent news: Clorox had to take certain operations offline due to cyber attack (Reuters) Discord went offline because over 700K user information were stolen (link) Prince George’s County public school system was hacked (link) Connecticut…

Sharing regular business updates is an important discipline for startups and management teams. For me, these regular updates come each week and month in the forms of weekly CEO calls and email updates from CEOs. …

“Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart” (NYTimes) “AI search of Neanderthal proteins resurrects ‘extinct’ antibiotics” (Nature) “SK Hynix and Samsung’s early bet on AI memory chips pays off” (FT) “KNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval” (Link) “Consistency Models” (Link) “SelfCheckGPT: Zero-Resource Black-Box Hallucination Detection for Generative…

A big part of implementing data science and machine learning/AI in organizations is data wrangling. Data wrangling accounts for between 70–80% of data science. Data wrangling can mean many things. In general, data wrangling tasks include data acquisition, data ingestion, data extraction, data cleaning, data transformation, exploratory data analysis, and…