(E) Moderna released today new data about the protection of its vaccine against the new SARS-Cov-2 variants: “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Variants Update“. Long story short, the Moderna vaccine provides the […]
(E) Today, the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Agreement. What a good news. Merci Monsieur Le President! Reference: A Silicon Valley Insider, “Paris COP21 – Actions Must Follow […]
(E) Yes – it is really…And, it is time to move forward…Controlling the pandemic – Providing economic relief – Tackling climate change – And, advancing racial equity… Note: The picture […]
(E) Stanford University is celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a four-day webinar and documentary film festival that opens today on Friday evening, January 15th, and will […]
(E) I saw yesterday an interview from French social scientist Gérald Bronner about his latest book “Apocalypse Cognitive”. Following is a short introduction about his book: “La situation est inédite. […]
(B) Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post “The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis“. Ten years after, it seems that nothing […]
(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best, and hoping that in 2021, our lives will finally return to a more normal stage. One of my favorite events during […]
(B) The stock market in 2020 has been one of the weirdest ones that I ever witnessed, as it was insanely disconnected from the economy. While the economy shrunk due […]
(T) Bruce Schneider has just published an essay on December 24th in his blog and in the Guardian about the recent US massive cyber breach. The essay analyzes the state […]
(E) Christmas is always the time when most of us are with our family. But this year is different as no one should travel. And so, we are discovering the […]
(T) Most of the innovations in deep learning have come over the last few years from new natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Google’s Transformer with self-attention mechanisms has certainly changed […]
(T) Another quite surprising security breach. FireEye disclosed this week details of a cyber attack that it believes was carried out by “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”. Specifically, FireEye […]
(E) Great political leaders are the ones that will have or had a long-term impact on the well-being of a nation and its citizens. Their policies and actions created the […]
(E) Today, Moderna announced the results of its phase 3 study, and gave some additional details about its vaccine. Moderna vaccine is slightly more efficient than the one from BioNTech, […]
(B) I watched Blackstone Q4 quarterly webcast, titled “no clarity until 2022”, on the financial markets. That webcast was prepared by Blackstone’s Byron Wien and Joe Zidle. I enjoy listening […]
(E) The second wave is here. Infections have been rising to the roof: Europe, the U.S., South America, and Russia. The U.S have now over 150,000 new daily cases, and […]
(E) Today is a good day! Pharmaceutical giant partner Pfizer announced today that the vaccine developed with its partner BioNTech, a bio-tech company located in Mainz in Germany, against the […]
(E) One of my favorite fun activities, every Fall, is to attend a performance of the San Francisco Opera. And to select which opera performance I will attend, I usually […]
(E) Taiwan and New Zealand have a huge advantage over other countries fighting the propagation of SARS-CoV-2: they are islands. Closing and reopening offices, schools, restaurants, gyms do not work. […]
(E) 2020 will be a different year in many ways. The streets empty of kids during Halloween. Note: The picture above is the house from one of my neighbors, an […]
(E) Gora Ndiaye is making the impossible possible in Senegal. Fertilizing the desert. Mr. Ndiaye is a magician of the permaculture, growing many types of trees and plants in a […]
(B) After the successful IPOs of SnowFlake, Unity, and Sumo Logic, CNBC has published an article about Sequoia Capital “Silicon Valley’s most prominent VC firm had a banner week: $9 […]
(T) Google had an online Quantum Computing Symposium this Summer. I missed it! But all the videos are on YouTube, and I watched a few of them. Following is the […]
