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 […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Causal Inference Use Cases from Technology to Business
(T) I wish I could have an application that would help me to explore the causal relationships of various inputs on an outcome, so that I could play between different […]
The Pegasus Spyware
(T) The Pegasus spyware is quite impressive. Developed by the NSO Group in Israel and sold to governments across the world, it has been capable of collecting passwords, reading text […]
Covid-19 – Day 613: Covid Patients Transported from Tahiti to Paris
(E) Eight French Polynesian patients in intensive care from Covid-19 were transported on Friday, September 17th on a plane from Tahiti to Paris in a 22 hours flight. The cost […]
Distributed and Declarative Deep Learning Systems
(T) Developing deep learning models is hard. Debugging deep learning models is even harder. And, few companies have data pipelines that provide the training and inference of large scale deep […]
Attempts to Solve the Collatz Conjecture
(E) Named after German mathematician Lothar Collatz who introduced it in 1937, the Collatz conjecture is one of those fun math problems that are simple to explain but very difficult […]
Tesla AI Day 2021
(T) Tesla had this week a recruiting event for data scientists and software engineers: “Tesla AI Day”. In my opinion, Andrej Karpathy and his team during that event have shown […]
We Will Lose the Habitability of our Planet in Just Two Decades!
(E) According to the latest and 6th assessment report from the IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) “emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1°C […]
Covid-19 – Day 566: State of Knowledge about the Delta Variant
(E) A few recent articles that summarize the present state of knowledge about the Delta variant from the revue Nature: Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization How […]
Multi-Task Prediction of Organ Dysfunctions in ICUs
(T) An interesting research from Google Health on predicting organ dysfunctions in intensive care units (ICUs). The system uses multi-task models, which take into account a variety of competing risks along […]
Happy 4th of July!
(E) Happy 4th of July to everyone from the parade in Half Moon Bay! Note: The picture above is the 2021 4th of July Half Moon Bay parade. Copyright © […]
Designing the Next Version of TPUs with Reinforcement Learning and Graph CNNs
(T) A team of Google researchers developed a reinforcement learning system to design the billions of transistors in the next version of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips optimized for computing TensorFlow […]
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