Video frame interpolation has come a long way and AI is taking it in some strange directions — It was back in 2015 and I was creating some data visualizations for a meeting with my PhD supervisory committee. This was towards the end of my graduate studies in astrophysics and I had run some supercomputer simulations of a massive star forming inside an interstellar cloud of gas. I…

Stabilizing the planet’s climate through carbon dioxide removal — As of 2022, our planet has warmed by an average of 1°C (1.8°F) since the industrial revolution (1760 — 1840), with most of that happening in the last century. …

Why debates about business jets distract from the climate conversation — The 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF) just concluded its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The annual gathering brings together the chief executives of its 1000 members, as well as heads of state, journalists, and delegates from various NGOs and academic institutions. The WEF was established in 1971 as a non-profit…

How to apply each deep learning framework to the MNIST problem — In the late 1990s, machine learning researchers were experimenting with ways to create artificial neural networks in layered architectures that could perform simple computer vision tasks. Machine learning is the science of writing algorithms that can learn from data. One classic benchmark of computer vision algorithms is their performance against…

The year 2020 felt like it never really ended. Chaos and confusion just rolled into the next month, and then the next. And here we are, setting off on 2022. I do most of my reading while on flights, blissfully disconnected from the internet and away from a computer screen…

A quick primer on what NFTs are and why you should care — So you’ve been hearing about these new things, NFTs, and you’re confused. I get it. Honestly, it took a few months from when I first heard about them to feel like I understood them. And I’m a tech entrepreneur. So I get why they’re so mysterious to most people. Let’s…

How the cult of early rising is hurting us — For a long time now we’ve heard the refrain that the most successful people rise before dawn and achieve more in their first three hours than the rest of us do all day. Or something to that effect. Various self-help books will claim that fixing your morning will lead to…