Deep Learning 101

Deep learning has become something of a buzzword in recent years with the explosion of 'big data', 'data science', and their derivatives mentioned in the media. Justifiably, deep learning approaches have recently blown other state-of-the-art machine learning methods out of the water for standardized problems such as the MNIST handwritten…

Startup School 2013

This year I was lucky enough to go to Startup School hosted by Y Combinator! Apart from getting to see many of my good friends while staying at Stanford, I met a ton of interesting people, learned some valuable lessons, and finally experienced the startup culture of the Bay Area.…

Hello world.

I’m Markus, a student in the Jerome Fisher program in Management & Technology at Penn studying computer science, entrepreneurship, marketing, and decision processes. I’m currently in my 5th year also finishing a master’s in computer science. I will probably end up writing about many things here – startups,…