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  <p>Looking for the AI Company Landscape image? The current version (2014-07-14) is <a href="http://npbay.es/AI_Landscape_20140714.png">here</a>.<p>

  <h1>About Me</h1>

  <p>After receiving my <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/45336">PhD in computational neuroscience</a> from MIT in 2008, I co-founded two companies based on probabilistic inference; both were backed by the crazy folks at <a href="http://foundersfund.com">Founders Fund</a>. The second, Prior Knowledge, was acquired by <a href="http://salesforce.com">Salesforce</a> in late 2012, where I now work as a product manager.</p>
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  <p>I live in Oakland, CA with my wife and daughter.</p>
  <p><a href="http://twitter.com/beaucronin">Twitter</a> is the best way to get a hold of me.</p>
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  <h1>Writing</h1>
  I've been doing some writing, including a series on O'Reilly Radar about developments in AI.
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  <h2>Intelligence Matters</h2>
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    <li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/06/ais-dueling-definitions.html">AI's Dueling Definitions</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/06/untapped-opportunities-in-ai.html">Untapped opportunities in AI</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/05/it-works-like-the-brain-so.html">"It Works Like the Brain" So?</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/05/welcome-to-intelligence-matters.html">Welcome to Intelligence Matters (by Ben and Roger)</a></li>
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  <h2>Other Writing</h2>
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    <li><a href="http://npbay.es/deep-learning-business-models.html">Deep Learning Business Models</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/06/30/what-happens-when-the-world-turns-into-one-giant-brain/">GigaOm: Global-scale intelligent systems</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/05/different-evaluation-criteria-for-machine-learning-systems.html">O'Reilly Strata: Evaluating ML systems</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/04/probabilistic-programming.html">O'Reilly Radar: What is probabilistic programming?</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107971134877020469960/posts/KpeRdJKR6Z1">Why probabilistic programming matters</a></li>
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