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Transforming eBook Production by Treating Books as Software
Photo by Jixar Digital books are bundles of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. How do we efficiently convert and create these pieces of software? These bundles can be very complicated. For example, Ganong's...
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Inkling Habitat: How a 100,000 Line JavaScript Application Focused on Digital...
Last week I introduced you to one of the original animating ideas behind Inkling Habitat, treating books as software to transform the eBook production process. Today I'd like to take you behind the...
View ArticleYou're Doing Web & eBook Footnotes Wrong
The Problem Most web pages that have footnotes blindly mimic paper and put them at the bottom of the page, jumping the user to the footnote when clicked on:Picking on Paul Graham's footnotes This is...
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Next Generation eBook Review: The Glo Bible: Surprising Lessons We Can Learn...
Today I'm reviewing a very interesting next generation religious eBook named Glo. The digital religious and eBook communities don't tend to talk to each other. However, the work happening in these...
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Digital Storytelling Conference 2014
On Wednesday last week a bunch of us at Inkling jumped in a van in San Francisco and drove eight hours to U.C. Irvine for the Digital Storytelling conference. It was a great road trip and a fabulous...
View ArticleLeft Inkling
I haven't been public about it, but I left Inkling 2 1/2 months ago. It was a fabulous place to work but after nearly four years it was time to move on. During this time I've been doing part time front...
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Roots of Coworking Keynote at GCUC 2015
I gave a keynote at the GCUC 2015 coworking conference on the roots of coworking, giving my personal story on why I created coworking and what led up to it. This is a slightly longer version of the...
View ArticleWhere Will Work Be in 10 Years?
Wired.uk recently asked me to write a short 100 word answer on what our workplaces will look like in ten years. One hundred words is pretty small; here's my full response: It's not about what work...
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Personal Photos Model Using Deep Learning
I've spent the last year going deep into deep learning, machine vision, and autonomous systems. I've completed two Coursera courses, Andrew Ng's Introduction to Machine Learning and Geoffrey Hinton's...
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Intelligence Augmentation and the Myth of the “Golden Lost Age”
Maarten van Emden has a great piece on Douglas Engelbart and Intelligence Augmentation (IA) versus Artificial Intelligence (AI). First go read that piece then come back here :) This post follows up a...
View ArticleNIPS Day 1: Tutorials on Scaling Deep Learning, Probabilistic Programming,...
I'm at my first annual NIPS conference this year in Montreal, the annual pow-wow for machine learning and deep learning in particular. Monday, the first day, had several multi-hour in-depth tutorials...
View ArticleNIPS Day 3 Morning Sessions
These are my notes from the morning sessions of day 3 of NIPS.Read more...
View ArticleNIPS Day 3 Posters
These are the posters that caught my eye on the third day of NIPS. Note that they are HDR images, so zoom in using your computer to see more detail. Some of the posters below have extra images...
View ArticleTen Deep Learning Trends I Saw at NIPS 2015
I attended the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2015 conference this week in Montreal. It was an incredible experience, like drinking from a firehose of information. Special thanks to my...
View ArticleCloudless: Open Source Deep Learning Pipeline for Orbital Satellite Data
I'm proud to announce the 1.0 release of Cloudless, an open source computer vision pipeline for orbital satellite data, powered by data from Planet Labs and using deep learning under the covers. This...
View ArticleSome Surprising Results of What it Would Take to Transport a Million People...
Elon Musk of SpaceX has said he wants to send one million people to Mars. What would it take in terms of the transport side of the equation to actually make this happen? My good friend Jeffery...
View ArticleNotes from Neural Network NIPS 2016 conference
I've put up all my notes from the NIPS 2016 conference in Barcelona here. It includes lots of deep and reinforcement learning talks, paper sessions, and more. Hopefully these notes are useful for you!
View ArticleCreating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
In this post we will take you behind the scenes on how we built a state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline for our mobile document scanner. We used computer vision and deep...
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Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
The last year and a half I've led a project on the Dropbox Machine Learning team to take the computer vision/deep learning OCR pipeline I built the year before and automatically run it and several...
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Joining Planet!
I'm excited to announce I'm joining the machine learning team at Planet! I will be applying machine and deep learning to remote sensing imagery of the Earth's surface. Planet has built a constellation...
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HOWTO: Setting Up NVIDIA Jetson TX2 Mac Laptop Development Workflow
IntroductionJetson TX2 with external monitor connectedThis post details how to get a productive development cycle between a Mac and an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 development board, so that you can easily do...
View ArticleHOWTO: NVIDIA Jetson TX2: Productive Docker Development & Benchmarking
My previous post, HOWTO: Setting Up NVIDIA Jetson TX2 <-> Mac Laptop Development Workflow, detailed getting a productive workflow going between a Mac Laptop and an NVIDIA Jetson TX2. This post...
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HOWTO: Adding Keyboard Accelerators to Holoviz Applications for Machine...
My team at Planet trains deep nets with large amounts of geospatial remote sensing data, for tasks such as semantic segmentation. We've created a set of internal Jupyter Notebooks built above the...
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Two Exciting, Optimistic Visions for the 2020s Involving the Earth, Space,...
IntroductionIn this essay I present two inspirational visions for the 2020s, one involving Earth and the other involving space — both scenarios are bound together and enabled by advanced machine...
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Turning Strangers Into Friends In Virtual Reality: VR Social Architectures
This blog post is a call to action for the social VR platforms to get creative around helping strangers connect and become friends, what I call the social architecture.With the rise of remote work and...
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