On Decoupling
You have probably heard of the butterfly effect: a distant butterfly flapping its wings can have a hard-to-predict effect on a future event. Everything seems to be connected in the world, and tech ...
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Scaling healthcare through AI
Curai’s mission is to “provide the world’s best healthcare to everyone”. In order to do so, we strive to scale the reach of an individual physician by creating tools that automate large portions of...
The 7+1 Habits of Highly Successful Leaders
I recently had a candidate I was interviewing to ask about my leadership style. I gave a short answer, but I was left thinking that I would have liked to continue talking about this for a much long...
The year in AI: 2019 ML/AI advances recap
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to do an end-of-year retrospective of advances in AI/ML (see last year’s round up for example), so here we go again! This year started with a big recogn...
Data as Prior/Innate knowledge for Deep Learning models
There is a long history of debate about how much of human knowledge is innate and how much is learned from experience/data. This is also known as the nature vs. nurture debate (See for example some...
The year in AI/ML advances: 2018 roundup
It has become a sort of tradition for me to try to summarize ML advances at this time of the year (see here for my Quora answer last year, for example). As always, this summary will necessarily be ...
The Memo Culture
Some days back I was having a conversation about the importance of memos and documents in an agile/fast-moving startup company. The person I was talking with was surprised with my thoughts and aske...
Curai
I haven’t updated this channel in a while. I hope that by now you have already found out elsewhere that about a year ago I co-founded a company in the AI/Healthcare space: Curai. A few weeks back, ...