Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. Ivor Darreg, Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports t...

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Andrew Ng on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepreneurship.

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Key researchers are joining Google DeepMind, too.

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