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Improbable: Enabling the Development of Large-scale Simulated Worlds - by...
Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large organizations became available to almost anyone. Using cloud-scale development platforms like Amazon Web Services,...
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a16z Podcast: The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale - with Chris Dixon, Herman...
Distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark have enabled processing of “big data” sets — but that’s not enough for modeling surprise/rare “black swan” or complex events. Just think of...
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Machine Learning + Big Data - Predictive analytics (and where do Hadoop and...
Machine learning will not be an activity in and of itself … it will be a property of every application. The key is more automated apps where big data drives what the application does, with no user...
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a16z Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Space of Possible Minds’
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What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial...
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a16z Podcast: Data Network Effects
If network effects are one of the most important concepts for software-based businesses, then that may be especially true of data network effects — a network effect that results from data....
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AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
watch time: 45 minutes “One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car.” That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA sponsored the very first...
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Quantum Computing: A Primer
watch time: 28 minutes One of the key insights that legendary physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman had was that quantum mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with subatomic...
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a16z Podcast: Software Programs the World
“All of a sudden you can program the world” — it’s the continuation of the software eating the world thesis we put out over five years ago, and of the trajectory of past and current technology shifts....
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a16z Podcast: All about Microservices
“Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once”. So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead...
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a16z Podcast: Quantum Computing, Now and Next
Moore’s Law — putting more and more transistors on a chip — accelerated the computing industry by so many orders of magnitude, it has (and continues to) achieve seemingly impossible feats. However,...
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