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Entrepreneurship: Cleaning the Oceans from Plastic

Sustainability: You Must not Gamble Your Children’s Future on the Flip of a Coin

Product Management: Prioritizing Features in a Road Map

Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Deep Learning in the Infinite Width Limit

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 13, 2023

A Knee on the Neck

(E) “A Knee on the Neck: Do what they tell you because they are the law, at that moment not what you believe to be true. Swallow your pride if […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 26, 2023

From Droughts and Fire to Flood and Snow

(E) Last year, California had a severe drought from January to March. This year, we had a large number of storms, one after each other, from the end of last […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 20, 2023

A New Peak for the Global Consumption of Coal in 2022

(E) According to the IEA (International Energy Agency), the production of coal has reached a new peak in 2022 surpassing 8 billion tonnes for the first time. The IEA expects […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 4, 2023

The Pathways System – Google’s NextGen ML Platform for LLMs

(T) Jeff Dean announced the vision for Google’s next generation model Pathways in a blog post in the fall of 2021. Another blog article and a paper was published about […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 28, 2023

La Portée de L’Alexandrin dans la Langue de Molière

(E) I went this Friday at the Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley to watch its monthly movie “Alceste à Bicyclette” in French, or “Bicycling with Molière” in American, while enjoying […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 22, 2023

Let be Clear About the Capabilities of Generative Models and Dialogue Agents

(T) “chatGPT has taken the world by storm”. That is what everyone of us has been reading everywhere and everyday for over two months now about chatGPT. And, everyone of […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 18, 2023

Google Research in 2022 and Beyond

(T) As he did since 2017, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Research and Health Teams shared some of the key achievements of his team for 2022 in a […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 7, 2023

Changement Climatiques On Savait Déjà Depuis Longtemps

(E) l’Institut National de l’ Audiovisuel (INA) a rassemblé d’excellentes videos sur les previsions du changement climatique qui étaient connus depuis plus de 45 ans. 1974 – René Dumont « Vous savez […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 1, 2023

Happy New Year! Best Wishes for 2023!

(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best for 2023! One of my favorite events during the first day of the year is to watch live on TV the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 28, 2022

The Monarch is Back in Pacific Grove Again this Winter

(E) For the pleasure of both the kids and the adults, the Monarch is back in Pacific Grove. And, its number is slightly above last year (See the blog post […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 24, 2022

Joyeux Noël

(E) I wish that everyone on Earth could experience on Christmas Day an exquisite dinner. A dinner and its menu are exquisite when it makes you want to live. Why? […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 21, 2022

The COP 15 – The United-Nation Biodiversity Conference

(E) At the COP 15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, nearly 200 countries (without the U.S. and the Vatican) pledged to avoid mass extinction of plant and animal species, in particular […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 18, 2022

Hoping that We Will Never Spend Again $200 B for a Worldwide Sport Event?

(E) I have to say, the final game of the 2022 Football World Cup between France and Argentina was a blast! I wish France would have won. But I am […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 7, 2022

Theoretical Deep Learning

(T) Research in deep learning is moving rapidly in every direction: reinforcement and imitation earning for robots, computer vision for self driving cars, graph neural networks for biology, and language […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 26, 2022

Containing the Growth of the Human Population

(E) As tweeted by Antonio Guterres: “As we welcome the 8 billionth member of our human family, we must think ahead. By 2050, the world’s population will be approaching 10 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 23, 2022

Energy Transition Has Never Existed and Will Never Exist

(E) The latest report of the 2022 IPCC working group III mentioned in its 2,900 pages 2,517 times the word “transition”. According to the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, energy transition has […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 20, 2022

COP 27 – As Always No Decision to Stop Carbon Dioxide Emissions!

(E) The major outcome of the COP 27 this week in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, was that wealthier countries have agreed to set up a fund to help the poorest ones […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 22, 2022

The Evolution of Google Datacenter Networking Architecture and Technologies

(T) I have been trying over the years to follow the evolution of Google’s datacenter and networking technologies, and in particular its switching fabric Jupiter.  See the following blog posts:”Google’s […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 16, 2022

Dialogues of the Carmelites

(E) You usually go to the Opera to have an entertaining and social evening with your spouse, family, or friends. But what about going to the Opera to listen to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 7, 2022

The Destruction of our Forests: Brazil, Senegal, and France

(E) Our worldwide forests are so precious but we are doing a pretty good job to destroy them. Brazil is losing the Amazon in order to produce and export beef […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 28, 2022

Worldwide Economies – Be Prepared for the Worst!

(B) We have moved quickly from a pre-Covid economic world that was characterized by: To a past-Covid economic world characterized by: To the exception of energy stocks which returns are […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 12, 2022

San Francisco Opera in the Park

(E) It is today. So just take the kids, grab a picnic, and bring the entire family. Performances starts at 1:30 pm in the Robin Williams Meadow of the Golden […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 1, 2022

Today’s Presentation from Dr Valerie Masson-Delmotte about the State of Global Warming to the French Government

(E) Following are the key points of Dr Valerie Masson-Delomotte‘s presentation about the state of global warming to the French Government, that she shared in a thread on Twitter. The […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 24, 2022

Insane Climate Anomalies or New Typical Climate Conditions

(E) Those are just a few insane climate anomalies or probably better stated, the new typical climate conditions that we have witnessed this year across the globe. What kind of […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 14, 2022

The Unobvious and Fundamental Properties and Behaviors of Black Holes

(T) Understanding the unobvious and fundamental properties and behaviors of Black Holes with Aurélien Barrau, astrophysicien, philosopher, and poet. Mr Barrau words are full of poetry. His lecture is easy […]

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