TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017 cont...

Matt and I had a long day listening to some of the latest breakthroughs in deep learning, specifically those related to TensorFlow.  Some standouts included a Stanford student that had created a neural net to detect skin cancer. Also liked Doug Eck's talk about artificial creativity. Jeff Dean had a cool keynote, and got to learn about TensorBoard from Dandelion Mane.  One of my favorite parts of the summit was getting shout outs and later talking to both Jeff Dean and Doug Eck.  The shoutouts to cloudpainter during Jeff's Keynote and Eck Session and lots of pics can be seen below. This is mostly for my memories.

Full Visibility's Machine Learning Sponsorship

Wanted to take a moment to publicly thank cloudpainter's most recent sponsor, Full Visibility. 

Full Visibility is a Washington D.C. based software consulting boutique that I have been lucky enough to become closely associated with. Their sponsorship arose from a conversation I had with one of their partners. Was telling him how I finally thought that Machine Learning, which has long been an annoying buzzword, was finally showing evidence of being mature. Next thing I knew Full Visibility bought a pair of mini-supercomputers for the partner and I to experiment with. One of the two boxes can be seen in the picture of my home based lab below. It's the box with the cool white skull on it. While nothing too fancy, it has about 2,500 more cores than any other machine I have ever been fortunate enough to work with. The fact that private individuals such as myself can now run ML labs in their own homes, might be the biggest indicator that a massive change is on the horizon.

Full Visibility joins the growing list of cloudpainter sponsors which now includes Google, 7Bot, RobotArt.org, 50+ Kickstarter Backers, and hundreds of painting patrons. I am always grateful for any help with this project that I can get from industry and individuals. All these fancy machines are expensive, and I couldn't do it without your help.

Pindar Van Arman

Crowdsourced Google Event

Crowd Painter was featured on the main floor of Google's Made-With-Code Launch Party. This is the painting that resulted. The #madewithcode initiative is this really great $50 million project by Google to close the gender gap in computer science.