Covid-19 – Day 127: Modeling the Exponential Covid-19 Epidemic Growth Rate
(E) Modeling the epidemy – from understanding the basic math of what is exponential growth… which says, that from the data outside China as March 6th, the number […]
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Covid-19 – Day 126: Worldwide Clinical Trials of the Most Promising Treatments for Covid-19
(E) We just need one to work well, and asap! Reported in ScienceMag: “WHO launches global mega trial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments“. Treatments include: Remdesivir (antiviral – […]
COVID-19 – Day 126: How Professor Raoult at Mediterannee Infection will Treat COVID-19 Patients?
(E) Professor Didier Raoult and the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseille, who conducted early successful tests with the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment to Covid-19, have announced how they […]
COVID-19 – Day 125: FDA Approves Cepheid 45 mns SARS-Cov2 Test for Hospitals
(E) Cepheid, a company which provides automated molecular diagnostics through its GeneXpert® System for hospitals has announced a new test approved by the FDA for Covid-19 that can be performed […]
COVID-19 – Day 125: The Tip of the Iceberg from David Ho HIV Virologist Pioneer
(E) Caltech published a complete, clear, and concise summary of the conoravirus pandemic in a Q&A with David Ho, whose research has been key for the understanding of the HIV […]
COVID-19 – Day 124: Goldman Sachs 2nd Quater GDP Contracting by 24%
(E) CNBC reported the latest economic forecast of Goldman Sachs. Economists, at the financial firm, are forecasting a historically sharp and swift recession, with second-quarter GDP sinking a stunning 24% […]
COVID-19 – Day 123: Why Country is Flattening the Curve?
(E) The New York Times has published today which countries have been successful to flatten the curve? So far Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and China. Italy, Spain, Iran, France, […]
COVID-19 – Day 122: Sanofi Offers Anti-Malaria Treatment for COVID-19 after “Promising” Trials
(E) Sanofi said it could potentially treat COVID-19 patients with its anti-malarial drug Plaquenil after what it described as “promising” early test results. Sanofi said it was ready to work […]
COVID-19 – Day 122: La Musique de Renaud Capuçon pour Adoucir nos Moeurs
(E) Famous French cellist Gautier Capuçon was supposed to perform with MTT and the San Francisco Symphony orchestra several concerts from Tuesday to Saturday last week. But all those concerts […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: From Paris to San Francisco PLEASE STAY HOME!
(E) Seven counties of the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered nearly 7 million residents to shelter in place for the next three weeks as health officials scramble to keep […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: The Implications of Hitting the Hard 0% Interest Rate Floor
(E) If you want to understand how the economy works, listen to hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. Following Sunday’s announcement of the Federal Reserve, Mr. Dalio published today an article […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: First Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine with Humans
(E) It goes without saying that some of the best biotech firms and researchers are working no stop to find a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. Today, Moderna , a […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Testing, Testing, and Testing
(E) Business Insider has one chart that summarized how the US is behind many other countries in testing its population against the coronavirus: “One chart shows how many coronavirus tests […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Why the Coronavirus Spread Exponentially, and how to “Flatten the Curve”?
(E) The Washington Post has a fantastic article that simulates how the coronavirus spreads exponentially in a population of 200 inhabitants, and why it is so important to slow its propagation: […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Understanding the Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2
(E) The New Yorker has published a thorough interview – Understand the Novel Coronavirus – with Justin Lessler, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of […]
How Reinforcement Learning Enables a new Generation of Robots
(T) I had the pleasure to listen to several great talks about reinforcement learning from Professor Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley at the ODSC West Conference last Fall. I am […]
Agroecology Practices for Feeding the World!
(E) Félix Noblia, a farmer in South France, is testing many alternative agricultural practices: enhancing the soil, raising cows on pasture or combining crops, valued soils, agriculture without synthetic pesticides […]
