Last week I was invited to give a talk at the PHLAI conference on the intersection of Blockchains and Machine Learning, 2 areas I have been working with a fair bit in the last couple of years. My hope with the talk was to get more AI practitioners interested in the Blockchain space, which I … Continue reading “Slides from my PHLAI Talk”
NFTs have been a lot in the news lately, jolted into mainstream spotlight by Beeple’s $69M sale of his NFT art piece called the first The First 5000 Days. As with most things crypto, there are as many passionate believers as there are skeptics of this new model for digital collectables. Regardless, from a purely … Continue reading “Notes from A16Z’s NFT Virtual Summit”
Between a global pandemic and a shocking display of the ugliest parts of human characteristics, 2020 will go down as one of the worst years to be around. Compared to some of the other heartbreaking stories I keep reading, my family and I were lucky to only be inconvenienced and not devastated by everything that … Continue reading “2020 Retrospective”
🙃 Can’t believe 2019 is over. Fun was had, life was lived. So let’s talk about it Tech Most of my work in 2019 was split between conversational technologies (bots and such), Flutter, some Machine Learning and finally some Blockchain stuff. So here is a quick recap of the year: 🤖 Chatbots I spent a … Continue reading “2019 Retrospective Post”
For the last few years I have been thinking quite a bit about how we enable more people to learn programming. As an industry, we need more programmers universally and there seems to be a huge number of people who would want to come in. Unfortunately though we can’t seem to connect the 2 sides … Continue reading “Learning Curves”
I am a little behind on my 2018 review, seeing that its almost mid Jan already. But better late than never, so here goes VR 2018 continued to be a year of tremendous education professionally. For a big part of the year I continued to work in the VR space, specifically using A-Frame and WebVR. … Continue reading “A Quick 2018 Retrospective”
2017 was an intense year of learning for me. A change of charter for the labs group I work in late last year meant we focused deeper on core technology which was exciting as a technologist. This year that list included Unity, WebVR, Blender, React, React Native, Ruby on Rails and Blockchains (specifically Ethereum). Phew! … Continue reading “2017 Retrospective”
Another year passes by.  Here is a quick summary of my professional and academic 2016. Work It was a year of a lot of change at work. The make up of the team I work in changed dramatically as we rethought how a corporate labs group should operate. I worked on 2 big projects this year, … Continue reading “2016 Retrospective”
Every couple of months I meet a few friends over lunch to geek out over the latest in the world of Bitcoin, Blockchains and Crypocurrencies in general. Just so that I dont forget them, here is a list of things we discussed today 🙂 InterPlanetary File System The Decentralized Web Summit Etherium’s fork and the ETC … Continue reading “Bitcoin Pow Wow 2 notes”
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