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Vincent Chu in Initialized Capital

Feb 13, 2017

We Need to Go Deeper: A Practical Guide to Tensorflow and Inception

I’ve nursed a side interest in machine learning and computer vision since my time in graduate school. When Google released its Tensorflow framework and Inception architecture, I decided to do a deep dive into both…

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Kim-Mai Cutler in Initialized Capital

Nov 23, 2016

Fascism and The Historical Irony of Facebook’s “Fake News” Problem

Fred Turner is a Stanford-based historian of 20th century media, who chronicled the emergence of what became the Internet from the ideals of 1960s Bay Area countercultural movements in his book “From Counterculture…

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austin chang in Initialized Capital

Jul 5, 2017

What To Do If Your Product Isn’t Growing

How ‘Critical User Journeys’ can help a product take off

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Kim-Mai Cutler in Initialized Capital

Dec 7, 2016

How A Rust Belt Native and Silicon Valley Technologist Is Re-Thinking American Manufacturing

Nick Pinkston grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a family that has spent more than three generations in the manufacturing industry. They worked in coal mining in West…

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Kai Stinchcombe in Initialized Capital

Nov 28, 2017

How charging for our product originally hurt — but ultimately saved — our startup

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Vincent Chu in Initialized Capital

Apr 20, 2017

Benchmarking Tensorflow Performance and Cost Across Different GPU Options

Machine learning practitioners— from students to professionals — understand the value of moving their work to GPUs . Without one, certain tasks simply become unfeasible for lack of computing power…

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Kim-Mai Cutler in Initialized Capital

Jan 13, 2017

How Lever Got To 50–50 Women and Men

For two years, Sarah Nahm was the only woman at Lever, the company she co-founded and now runs as CEO.

Even though Nahm started off her career a decade ago as a speechwriter at Google for Marissa Mayer, one of the highest-profile women in…

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Kim-Mai Cutler in Initialized Capital

Dec 9, 2016

The Public Policy Implications of Artificial Intelligence

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Alexis Ohanian in Initialized Capital

Mar 19, 2018

Zero Lives Remaining

Reflecting on the last 10 years since losing my mom

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Kim-Mai Cutler in Initialized Capital

Sep 29, 2017

Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating A Design System

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