Day: May 7, 2020

Interesting Microsoft

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

Author and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb delivered a talk at Microsoft Research about how to gain from disorder and chaos, while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. Taleb argues that many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What he calls the antifragile is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits […]

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AI

Daphne Koller on Biomedicine and Machine Learning

Lex Fridman interviews Daphne Koller, a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. Time index: 0:00 – Introduction 2:22 – Will we one […]

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Azure Big Data

Drive Higher Utilization of Azure HDInsight Clusters with Autoscale

Are you looking to gain more control of the costs of operating your growing Azure HDInsight clusters? Are you interested in driving higher utilization of your Azure HDInsight clusters? If yes, then you should definitely watch this video to learn about how to leverage Azure HDInsight Autoscale feature to help you achieve higher cost efficiency. […]

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