This is about AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s Go playing AI that shook the technology world in 2016 by defeating one of the best players in the world, Lee Sedol. Go is an ancient board game which has so many possible moves at each step that future positions are hard to predict…

Google’s DeepMind is one of the world’s foremost AI research teams. They’re most famous for creating the AlphaGo player that beat South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016. The key technology used to create the Go playing AI was Deep Reinforcement Learning. Let’s go back 4 years, to when…

I promise you won’t have to use either Google or a dictionary while reading this. In this post I will teach you the core concepts about everything from “deep learning” to “computer vision”. Using dead simple English. You probably already know what self driving cars are and that they are…

Even Nobel Laureates agree that scientific papers are headed towards jargonocalypse. <Rant> I am an engineer by education, and have therefore studied science a lot. Yet I have realised that I find it easier to read something written in Spanish, than most scientific papers written in English (and I’ve never even…

Hint: It’s not in America or Europe. Earlier this week I watched an amazing documentary by Wired about the rise of Asia’s silicon valley hotspot in Shenzhen in China. This one small city, which came into prominence just two decades ago and doesn’t have a lot of history or culture…

(For Mac users) I’m an engineer. I hate most of the documentation I find on the internet. I guess developers write documentation for each other, which is a pretty understandable sentiment. And we use lingo that makes sense to our club. …

When I arrived in China, I realized I was on WeChat all the time. I was using it in many different ways: Instant messaging A social network like Facebook, for sharing pictures/videos/links/etc Sending money to people Making audio and video calls over the internet Quickly exchanging files between my phone…

If you have ever written a comment on LinkedIn that says something like “Interested. Please review my profile” or uploaded your resume/CV on a job portal website (or worse, simply clicked “apply”), this blog post is for you. To start off, here’s my philosophy for job-hunting: Posting your resume on…

What I will tell you in this article: How software outsourcing can be painful Certain rules you must follow, to avoid the pain IF YOU’RE A CLIENT So you want to get a website designed, or an app built, or some other software made. …