Google IO 2024 – My Favorite AI/ML Developer Sessions
(T) Following my previous post on the key announcements from Google IO this year at Shoreline in Mountain View, here are some of my favorite sessions, that I attended, to […]
(T) Following my previous post on the key announcements from Google IO this year at Shoreline in Mountain View, here are some of my favorite sessions, that I attended, to […]
(T) Just finished to attend today’s Google IO 2024 at Shoreline in Mountain View, and enjoying now a coffee break at la Maison Alyzsée on Castro Street while writing my […]
(T) Just finished to watch OpenAI’s Spring Update which is releasing GPT-4o. So why did OpenAI did an update today, just one day before Google IO 2024? We know that […]
(E) I attended yesterday night a wonderful performance of the Stanford Philharmonia conducted by Paul Phillips. Each time, I read the program notes of Mr. Phillips, I leaned at the […]
(T) Cement and steel represent together 16% of our total worldwide greenhouses emissions. The consumption of fossil fuels to produce steel has not decreased since the 1970s. And, the production […]
(T) I attended last month a workshop from Professor Grant Rotskoff on his research on generative models for molecular systems. In plain English, Professor Rotskoff’s research aims to leverage two […]
(T) One of my favorite hobbies during the week, if I have time is to attend a lecture, at the Stanford Maths & Statistics department. Two months ago, I attended […]
(E) The Palace of Versailles re-opened Marie-Antoinette’s private chambers last year. Those rooms shows the sophistication of the queen, and her interests, tastes, and passion, ahead of her time, for […]
On December 11, 2023, two Waymo robotaxis crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix. Waymo’s Chief Safety Officer Mauricio Peña wrote that “a Waymo vehicle made contact with […]
(B) I have listened to stock analyst and portfolio manager Dan Niles for a very long time on CNBC. Mr. Niles made an interesting comparison recently between Cisco’s P/E in […]
(T) Following were my two favorite sessions from Nvidia GTC that were not about Nvidia’s technology or the biotech industry. First, is a presentation from Arthur Mensch, who explains that […]
(T) Following were my favorite sessions from Nvidia GTC to get a sense of the latest machine learning research for the biotech industry… Note: The picture above is the location […]
(T) Following were my favorite sessions from Nvidia GTC to get a sense of Nvidia’s latest research and system software offering… Note: The picture above are my 2024 production of […]
(T) Following are my key takeaways from the Nivida’s GTC session – Transforming AI – which was a live discussion with the authors of the transformer paper. Note that all […]
(T) Just finished to attend today Jensen Huang‘s keynote at Nvidia GTC conference at the SAP Center in San Jose. When making the announcements of Nvidia new GPU Blackwell to […]
(T) Even with all the annoying and disturbing hype in AI, I feel that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have not invested in the silicon required to build large scale machine […]
(T) I attended yesterday a workshop from Emily Alsentzer, researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School at Stanford Medicine. Ms. Alsentzer presented SHEPHERD, a few shots […]
(T) One of the biggest challenges, if not the biggest challenge in AGI, is to develop and launch deep learning powered-applications that are safe, robust, and reliable for everyone to […]
(T) Following is the AMS Colloquium lecture “Machine Assisted Proof”, from UCLA Professor Terence Tao, at the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco – a topics for which I […]
(E) France and Europe have lost recently two outstanding political leaders: Robert Badinter and Jacques Delors. Mr. Badinter, as the Minister of Justice, led the abolishment of the death penalty […]
(E) One of the most beautiful soprano voices in the world is probably the voice of Nadine Sierra. Ms. Sierra has left the MET in New York to sing “La […]
(T) I attended last month a lecture at the Statistics Department of Stanford University from Professor Andrea Montanari regarding his research, with Ahmed El Alaoui, Mark Sellke, and Yuchen Wu, […]
(E) Going for a walk after dinner on Christmas eve, I saw a well decorated house not to far away from the Addison Elementary School in Palo Alto. That house […]
(E) Like most previous COPs, this COP did not result in a well defined plan, that requires each state to commit and to articulate how to significantly and quickly reducing […]
(E) Stanford KIPAC organized a fun stargazing at the Stanford Student Observatory yesterday night. A few Physics students were operated a few Unistellar telescopes (made in Marseilles) on the hills. […]