Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/programs/launchpad/studio/">Launchpad Studio</a>, a product development acceleration program focused on helping machine learning startups iterate quickly, fail fast, and collaborate on best practices.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/malijeanne">Malika Cantor</a> and <a href="http://norvig.com/">Peter Norvig</a> talk with <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> this week about how the Launchpad Studio program is helping startups overcome data, expertise and tooling barriers by providing access to talent and resources and building universal best practices.</p> <h5 id="about-malika-cantor">About Malika Cantor</h5> <p>Malika is the Global Lead for Google Launchpad Studio. Launchpad is the acceleration engine of Google - running a number of accelerator programs focused on supporting the global startup ecosystem. Prior to joining Google, Malika was a co-founder and partner at Comet Labs, a venture capital firm and experimental research lab focused on investing and supporting applied AI startups. She has worked with founders for around 6 years, in London, Beijing, Singapore, Toronto, and Silicon Valley.</p> <h5 id="about-peter-norvig">About Peter Norvig</h5> <p>Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google; previously he directed Google’s core search algorithms group. He is a fellow and councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field. He was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Introducing Preemptible GPUS: 50% off <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/introducing-preemptible-gpus-50-off.html"> blog</a></li> <li>How We Implemented a Fully Serverless Recommender System Using GCP <a href="https://medium.com/@willian.fuks/how-we-implemented-a-fully-serverless-recommender-system-using-gcp-9c9fbbdc46cc"> blog</a></li> <li>Awesome lists <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome">repo</a>: <ul> <li>Awesome Google Cloud Platform <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/awesome-google-cloud">repo</a></li> <li>Awesome Kubernetes <a href="https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes">repo</a></li> <li>Awesome TensorFlow <a href="https://github.com/jtoy/awesome-tensorflow">repo</a></li> <li>Awesome Firebase <a href="https://github.com/afonsopacifer/awesome-firebase">repo</a><br /></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Launchpad Studio <a href="https://developers.google.com/programs/launchpad/studio/">site</a></li> <li>Verily <a href="https://verily.com/">site</a></li> <li>DeepMind <a href="https://deepmind.com/">site</a></li> <li>Cloud AI <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/">site</a> <ul> <li>Cloud Machine Leanring Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/">site</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>TensorFlow <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/">site</a></li> <li>Android Things <a href="https://developer.android.com/things/index.html">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>How does a startup get GCP credits?</p> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform Startup Program <a href="https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/">site</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="cpu-vulnerability-links">CPU Vulnerability Links</h5> <ul> <li>What Google Cloud, G Suite and Chrome customers need to know about the industry-wide CPU vulnerability <a href="https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/what-google-cloud-g-suite-and-chrome-customers-need-know-about-industry-wide-cpu-vulnerability/"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Security Blog, Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html"> blog</a></li> <li>ProjectZero News and Updates <a href="https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html"> blog</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>San Francisco</p>