A historical collection of our writing.
Today the team at Clarifai is releasing an amazing second version of their API that makes two breakthroughs available to every developer: custom training and fast visual search. The beauty of Clarifai’s API when it first launched was that you could be up and running in minutes and get great results […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday evening, Allen Lau from Wattpad helped me organize a small casual dinner with other entrepreneurs and investors in Toronto. We have three existing investments in Toronto: Wattpad and Figure 1 in the city and Kik in Waterloo. Toronto has all the makings of a great ecosystem for tech […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today Uncertainty Wednesday continues with limits to observations. Limits to observations are — along with limits to explanations — the key sources of uncertainty that we face. Following the discussion of foundational limits to observations from last week, next up is observational resolution (this […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The 2016 Presidential race is not a typical election between two candidates based on the merits of their positions on key issues. Instead, it is a stark choice between Hillary Clinton, whose positions you may disagree with, but who is firmly grounded in the democratic and scientific tradition that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday evening Susan, our older son Michael and I had just returned from dinner at a nearby restaurant when we heard a very loud boom and it felt like the windows and floor briefly shook. My immediate thought was that this was an explosion. The sound of sirens shortly thereafter confirmed that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start to tackle the limits to observations. These […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
