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September 14, 2019

HackMIT 2019

September 14, 2019/ Michael Sollami
HackMIT 2019

Resources and links for the Salesforce Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning

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June 03, 2019

Winning the Fishackathon

June 03, 2019/ Michael Sollami
Winning the Fishackathon

By combining machine learning with a hardware design to do low-cost acoustic monitoring for fishing activity, our team won the #Boston #fishackathon.

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June 03, 2019

Visual Search at Salesforce

June 03, 2019/ Michael Sollami
Visual Search at Salesforce

Last month I gave a talk at the 2019 Deep Learning Summit in Boston on the nuances of building modern visual search engines at Salesforce.

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June 14, 2018

Deep Learning in Photography

June 14, 2018/ Michael Sollami
Deep Learning in Photography

My keynote on the state-of-the-art in AI-assisted computational photography.

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January 02, 2017

My Talk @ WTC 2016

January 02, 2017/ Michael Sollami
My Talk @ WTC 2016

Over the past year I worked with mathematician Laszlo Babai from the University of Chicago on write lecture material for his worldwide keynote tour explaining his breakthrough results on Graph Isomorphisms.

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September 12, 2016

Paper on Integer Sequences

September 12, 2016/ Michael Sollami
Paper on Integer Sequences

I recently published a paper in the Journal of Integer Sequences titled An Improved Lower Bound on the Number of Ternary Squarefree Words.

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August 15, 2016

My NASA Mission

August 15, 2016/ Michael Sollami
My NASA Mission

While at Goddard, one of the missions I worked on was the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission - the fourth NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe. The point of this mission was to use the Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of magnetic reconnection.

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July 17, 2016

Visualizing Neural Networks

July 17, 2016/ Michael Sollami
Visualizing Neural Networks

In this post we build some visual intuition about what convnets can do using Tie-Dye Networks - which are simple graphics that I've found helpful in building visual intuition about what goes on inside neural networks.

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July 13, 2016

CVPR 2016 Summary

July 13, 2016/ Michael Sollami
CVPR 2016 Summary

I attended 2016's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Las Vegas with my Ditto Labs colleague Arel Cordero. The core threads this year's were visual question & answering, semantic segmentation, and fine-grained classifications and embeddings. 

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September 19, 2015

Deep Learning for Social Media Data Mining - Q&A

September 19, 2015/ Michael Sollami
Deep Learning for Social Media Data Mining - Q&A

Deep learning is a branch of computer vision where we teach a computer how to understand what’s inside an image by feeding the computer examples. At Ditto labs, we use this technology to empower marketers to sift through terabytes of photos to find the pixels that matter.

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August 15, 2014

Cardan's Cubic Formula

August 15, 2014/ Michael Sollami
Cardan's Cubic Formula

In graduate school when I taught a few abstract algebra courses, students would sometimes remember the quadratic formula and ask if there was a cubic formula, and how that works. Well here goes!

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December 28, 2013

Brett Victor is one of my spirit animals

December 28, 2013/ Michael Sollami
Brett Victor is one of my spirit animals

Bret Victor invents tools that enable developers to understand and create. From Apple to Al Gore his work always impresses, definitely check out his Inventing on Principle talk.

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December 27, 2013

A Dissection of NKS

December 27, 2013/ Michael Sollami
A Dissection of NKS

A New Kind of Science (NKS) is probably the worst named intellectual framework of all time. Egotistical as it sounds, Wolfram's book really does contain some interesting (if not new) ideas and I'll try to explain them in a few broad strokes.

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Website and blogs of Michael Sollami Phd. Original thoughts on mathematics, computer science, and art.

 

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