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 1: I will update that blog […]
(T) Following were my favorite sessions from Nvidia GTC to get a sense of Nvidia’s latest research and system software offering… Note 1: I will update that blog post with […]
(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. […]
(T) Discovered by Eratosthenes of Cayenne 2,000 years ago in Ancient Greece, the Sieve of Eratosthenes is an algorithm that finds all prime numbers up to a specified integer: “It […]
(T) Two researchers Quentin Fournier and Gaétan Marceau Caron, from the Mila Lab from the University of Montreal led by Yoshua Bengio, and Daniel Aloise from Polytechnique Montreal have surveyed […]
(E) It is always an enjoyable experience to watch kids performing like professional actors or playing music like professional musicians. You are always touched by their level of energy, passion, […]
(T) I attended recently another lecture, part of the Stanford statistics seminars, from Professor Tengyu Ma from Stanford University titled: “beyond NTK: A mean-field analysis of neural networks with polynomial […]
(T) Stanford University’s KIPA – Kavli Institute for particle astrophysics and cosmology – had three public in-person lectures, earlier this summer about dark matter, that I attended. Those lectures are a wonderful way […]
(T) Sometimes, someone discovers that two different algorithms might be twins or at least express similar behaviors. Here is my list of a few papers that are fun to read […]
(T) I attended this week a lecture, part of Stanford statistics seminars, from Professor Song Mei from UC Berkely on approximation theory for generative AI: “Textbooks on deep learning theory […]
(T) I attended this week, the third Stanford Graph Learning Workshop. The workshop is organized by Professor Jure Leskovec, and his students. Some of the paper presentations are very impressive. […]
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