Matthew Ocko
Venture capitalist (@DCVC). Technologist. Husband-ist. Dad-ist. Friend-ist. Real wood fires, evenings w/ good food, wine & friends, & neat sci-fi. ♥ != endorse
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Matt Ocko on LinkedIn: "Super elegant"
September 20, 2019: Matt Ocko posted on LinkedIn
Matthew Ocko
Super elegant
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What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?
Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.
Cory Booker Compares Anti-Nuclear Democrats To Republican Climate Deniers
The New Jersey senator says the “data speaks for itself.” Experts say he’s right, and “the math is unforgiving.”
How to train your cow
A New Zealand company is testing solar-powered collars for cows. Craig Piggott is chief executive of start-up Halter, which is carrying out on-farm testing.
Data Collective — DCVC
Strengthening our commitment to Deep Tech with a new $725m fund
The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers
A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Quilt Data launches from stealth with free portal to access petabytes of public data
Quilt Data‘s founders, Kevin Moore and Aneesh Karve, have been hard at work for the last four years building a platform to search for data quickly across vast repositories on AWS S3 storage. The idea is to give data scientists a way to find data in...
r/MachineLearning - [N] Google swallows DeepMind Health
126 votes and 17 comments so far on Reddit
Thinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken
Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some birds are now known...
Exclusive: Venture Firm Data Collective Raises $725 Million to Invest in ‘Deep Tech’
The firm invests in companies solving highly technical problems.
DCVC | Announcing DCVC V
Strengthening our commitment to Deep Tech with a new $725m fund
The Consumerism Curse
Among the hardest things I have done in my life is to quit smoking. It has been over a decade since I last touched a cigarette, but I live with the effects of a 25-year habit, dealing with illnesse…
An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus
The Vector Institute in Siberia is one of two repositories in the world known to store live smallpox virus. An explosion rocked the facility Monday. While Russian emergency responders consider the explosion a major incident, the head administrator...
Unveiling Dark
Today we’re unveiling Dark and moving into private beta.
Shall we play a game? A GPT-2 text adventure
(Want to play the game or see the code? Click here)
When I read Ender’s Game, one of the parts that most stuck with me was the delightfully creepy Mind Game--a game designed to probe the player’s...
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Matthew Ocko
I, for one, welcome our new text-based Adventure AI overlords...😉
From this funny & haunting GPT-2 experiment
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How Fast Is The Universe Expanding? Incompatible Answers Point To New Physics
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper.
Using chemicals to supercool donor livers tripled organs’ shelf life
Cooling organs to subzero temperatures could help them last longer, making lifesaving transplants available to more people.