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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Generational Call to Action Against Climate Change
(E) We need to act now, and on a large scale if we want a future for a livable planet. My generation and the previous generations are responsible for climate […]
From Heart Transplant Rejection to Lung Cancer Detection – The Power of Computer Vision
(T) Not a new news, but it is amazing the see the applications of computer vision for medical applications from heart transplant rejection to lung cancer detection. Probably, many more […]
Taiwan China – Please not Another War!
(E) With the war between Ukraine and Russia, the world does not need another conflict between China and Taiwan. The two countries need to find a peaceful resolution. And, both […]
Music@Menlo – The Twentieth Season: Haydn Connections
(E) Music@Menlo chamber music festival will return this year at the Menlo School campus from July 14th to August 6th, but as it was the case for the last two years, many […]
Covid-19 – Day 971: Novavax Recombinant Protein Vaccine
(E) The FDA has just approved the Novavax vaccine, which is now the four Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S after Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J. Novavax’s vaccine leverages a recombinant protein […]
Simulating the Universe on a Supercomputer
(T) Stanford University’s KIPA – Kavli Institute for particle astrophysics and cosmology – had another public in-person lecture this month. The topics was “Simulating the Universe on a Supercomputer”. And, the presenter was […]
Prof. Viazovska, Duminil-Copin, June Huh, and Maynard Winning the 2022 Fields Medals
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal laureates are announced. This week, at the virtual 2022 ICM, it was announced that the Fields Medals were awarded to: […]
Covid-19 – Day 956: T Cells and the Immune System
(E) Covid-19 has certainly pushed to the edge, research on the immune system, and in particular the role of the T cells. Two recent article from the Harvard Medical School […]
An Humble Attempt to Understand the Work of Maryam Mirzakhani
(T) My high-school math teacher liked to draw perfect planes and spheres in a Euclidian space. With those perfect drawings, he expected that we will better understand geometry in a […]
Le Goût des Merveilles
(E) The Alliance Française of Silicon Valley is a wonderful place to learn about the French language and the French culture. They have many classes for all ages, book reading […]
Designing a Spark Data Pipeline
(T) One of my MLOps engineers asked me about my experience with the design of Spark data pipelines for processing large volume of data sets. Following is a summary of […]
Dark Matter in the Disordered Cosmos
(T) Stanford University’s KIPA – Kavli Institute for particle astrophysics and cosmology – had its first public in-person lecture last month. The topics was “Dark Matter in the Disordered Cosmos”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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