Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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How Much Do Silicon Valley Interns Make?
It turns out that interning for a tech firm in Silicon Valley can prove quite lucrative. According to Bloomberg, summer interns at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms will pull down an av… -
A New 'Gym' for Building and Testing A.I.
If you’re interested in working with machine learning and artificial-intelligence algorithms—but unsure of how to start—check out the OpenAI Gym, now in beta. The premise behind OpenAI Gym is sim… -
Smartphones: Work-Life Balancer, or Ruiner?
Mobile-optimized workplaces lead to higher employee engagement, according to a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) sponsored by Aruba. Roughly 60 percent of the survey’s 1,865 resp… -
The Next Big A.I. Challenge: Doom
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter. In March, an A.I. platform named AlphaGo beat a human champion in the game of Go. Now the machines are prepping for their next big challenge: first-per… -
Staying Ahead of the Evolving App Market
There’s a quote from Wayne Gretzky, the famous hockey player, that became something of a cliché in tech circles after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs started citing it frequently: “A good hockey play… -
Your Summer Job Search Checklist
Yes, the job market for tech professionals is strong. But that doesn’t mean companies are rolling out the welcome mat to just anyone who’s spent a few hours in school banging away at code. Even t… -
The Cloud's Raining Money
The market for off-premises cloud services grew to $93 billion last year, up 54 percent from 2014, according to new data from analyst firm IHS Technology. While that’s a huge number, IHS predicts… -
Tech Salaries vs. Rising Rents
Technology-industry salaries have risen significantly over the past few years, hitting an average of $96,370 in 2015, according to the annual salary survey from Dice. Experienced tech pros with i… -
Google May Adopt Swift for Android
Google may adopt the Swift programming language for Android, according to The Next Web. That’s pretty crazy, considering Apple developed Swift for building iOS and Mac OS X apps. Or maybe it’s no… -
Building Your Machine Learning Capabilities
In a new article in Fortune, Facebook executives detail how their research into machine learning and artificial intelligence allowed them to build a social network that serves photos, text posts,…