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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 May 6, 2022

Solving the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture in Probabilistic Combinatorics

(T) Very simply said, the Kahn-Kalai conjecture explores if a random graph is likely to have some sort of interesting structure such as it will contain a triangle, or it […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 24, 2022

OpenAI’s DALL.E 2

(T) OpenAi has released its second generation of model DALL.E 2 which generates images from text inputs. DALL.E showcases OpenAI’s research in multimodal and generative models. DALL.E 2 is capable […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 10, 2022

Toward the Magic Recipe to Make AI Systems “Intelligent”

(T) In 1956, a small group of scientists led by John McCarthy gathered for a Summer Research Project at Dartmouth University and established Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a scientific discipline […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 20, 2022

Former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Interviewed by Terry Gross

(E) Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air this week. “On what mrs Yovanovitch is hearing from friends and colleagues in Ukraine […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 4, 2022

Three Russians Garry Kasparov, Andrey Kortunov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky Discussing the Invasion of Ukraine

(E) Three Russians Garry Kasparov, Andrey Kortunov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky discussed the Invasion of Ukraine. All interviews are worthwhile to listen carefully. Garry Kasparov from New York: Key message: the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 19, 2022

Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran and The San Francisco Bay Area Winter Drought

(E) The San Francisco Bay Area is in a serious drought! It rains in November and December but we did not have any rain in January and in February. The […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 17, 2022

Generalization to New Tasks with Imitation Learning

(T) Babies learn by exploring their environments, manipulating any objects that can fall in their hands, observing the behaviors of adults, and interacting with them. Animals are good observers too. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 14, 2022

State of the Art for NLP Models

(T) NLP models are still the “big thing” in machine learning even if they cannot understand the meaning of the text or the speech that they are supposed to decipher […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 7, 2022

The Mathematics of Alexandre Grothendieck

(T) While everyone would agree that Albert Einstein was probably one the most influential physicists of the 20th century, it might be more difficult for most folks to come up […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 28, 2022

8 Rue de l’Humanité

(E) The pandemic has broken a few paradoxes in our lives which have lost sometimes basic humanity. So when Paris goes into lockdown during the pandemic in June 2019, the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 23, 2022

Google Research in 2021 and Beyond

(T) As he did since 2017, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Research and Health Teams, and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 19, 2022

Causality and Econometrics

(B) While one of my interests is causal inference in data science, and I have been studying causal inference for business applications in particular the life cycle of products, I […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 16, 2022

The Monarch is Back in Pacific Grove

(E) When we arrived yesterday close to the overwintering site of the monarch in Pacific Grove this Sunday, we could already see several monarchs above the trees canopy. Arriving at […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 9, 2022

The Rebirth of the California Condor, Threatened with Extinction 40 Years Ago

(E) With the disastrous effect of climate change, there are so many endangered species. See the picture below for the predictions of the United Nations on how climate change will […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 1, 2022

Happy New Year – Hope to Finally Return to a Normal Life?

(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best, and hope that in 2022, our lives will finally return to a more normal. I know I wished that already in […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 26, 2021

Elevating Human Conditions to the Highest

(E) Elevating human conditions to the highest. Human rights and justice for South Africa and everyone on earth. Desmond Tutu. Wikipedia: Desmond Tutu New York Times: “Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 20, 2021

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)

(T) Graphs have recently been “the big thing” for deep learning. There are perfect examples of machine learning applications in the Non-Euclidian space. Graphs have been used to predict friends […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 18, 2021

Machine Learning in Non-Euclidian Spaces

(T) The fundamental representation of any feature for any machine learning model is the vector and its multidimensional generalization which is the tensor. This has led to developing machine learning […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 16, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 701: Omicron Severity and Transmission

(E) The LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong found in a new research study why Omicron is less dangerous than Delta but more viral than Delta. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 1, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 685: What do we Know about Omicron?

(E) What do we know about the SARS-Cov-2 variant named Omicron? From what I understood, not much, except that its spike protein has many more mutations than the Delta variant […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 22, 2021

1933, 1945, and 2020: What do those Years have in Common?

(E) 1993, 1945, and 2020 are the only years, since the beginning of the industrial revolution around 200 years ago, when worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide dropped. And, why did […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 24, 2021

The Flying Car from Chinese Electric Vehicle Maker Xpeng

(T) There have been many Silicon Valley companies Joby Aviation, Kitty Hawk, Wisk, and Archer which have been working on flying cars for a few years now. Today, Xpeng, Tesla’s […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 2, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 627: Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Covid-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment

(E) The beautiful city of Manaus, full of history about the Amazonas, reached natural herd immunity in the Fall of 2020 when around 75% to 80% of its population had […]

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