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Joyce Shen

Evaluating Gen AI Applications - Part I

When I worked in mergers & acquisitions way back, one of the things to do was generating project code names to help preserve the confidentiality of these highly sensitive projects. I remember that we have gone through all kinds of names, drawing inspiration from mountains, park names, bird names, car

Why is classification in machine learning a foundational task to master?

While we have moved leaps and bounds in AI on many fronts in the last two years, building a classifier can still be a challenging (and interesting) machine learning task. For those who are not familiar with the classification problem in machine learning, here is a simple explanation. We want

What makes NYC a unique tech hub?

This week is NY Tech Week. While the events take place in various parts of NYC within one week, the tech hub that is NYC has been around for a long time. Many years ago, it used to be the case that startups go to the West Coast to raise

Joyce's picks: readings in ML/AI , October 12, 2023

“Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents” (link) “Monitor your NVIDIA GPUs on Compute Engine with Ops Agent” (link) “A Comprehensive Review on Financial Explainable AI” (link) “Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water” (link) “New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on

How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps

How to pitch your startup in 30 minutes (initial introductory meeting) in 8 steps

Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI , September 12, 2023

“TSMixer: An all-MLP architecture for time series forecasting” (Google) “Attention Is All You Need” (a major classic!) “Language to rewards for robotic skill synthesis” (Google) “Consistent Collaborative Filtering via Tensor Decomposition Authors” (Apple) “Speeding Up Text-To-Speech Diffusion Models by Distillation” (Nvidia) “To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm

How to pitch your startup under 10 minutes

The following startup pitch guide is focused on presentations that need to be done within 10 minutes (or less). It is very hard, and some entrepreneurs master this. But everyone can get better at this with practice.

Demystifying the Cap Table

One essential document in startup financing journey is the "Cap Table," short for Capitalization Table. While it may sound like a complex financial document, it is quite simple in its construction and provides the basis for various financial analyses related to a company's capital structure. Understanding

What does it take to lead early-stage investments?

Venture investing in the early stage is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of strategic and operational work to achieve key business and financial milestones which are prerequisite for growth equity. No one can do all the work alone. In fact, it requires the right type

Joyce’s picks: readings in ML/AI , August 18, 2023

Spotify launched Confidence — an experimentation platform: blog and sign up for private beta. (link) “AI chatbot K Health picks up $59M in fresh funding, inks partnership with Cedars-Sinai” (link) “A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks” (NYT) “The case for and against open-source large language models for