Muguet Porte Bonheur
(E) La tradition du 1er mai – offrez un bouquet de muget, ça porte bonheur – the tradition of May 1st – give a bouquet of lily of the valley, […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
The Arts are Starting to Bloom again in the Bay Area?
(E) The arts are starting to bloom again in the Bay Area and not only online but also offline: The SF Opera is offering a live performance of the “Barbier […]
COVID-19 – Day 466: Understanding the Non-Modified mRNA Vaccine from CureVac
(E) Another remarkable blog article, “the CureVac Vaccine, and a brief tour through some of the wonders of nature“, from (software engineer) blogger Bert Hubert who also wrote last year […]
COVID-19 – Day 464: The Supply Chain of the mRNA Vaccines
(E) A remarkable blog article, “exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines“, from another (software engineer) blogger Jonas Neubert on discovering and understanding the supply chain […]
COVID-19 – Day 457: Got my 2nd Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine Today
(E) I feel very privileged to not only have received my second Covid-19 vaccine dose today but also that my two doses were an mRNA vaccine, the one from Pfizer-BioNtech. […]
No French Wines on your Table for 2021
(E) You can see the effects of global warming in your plate, and and in your glass. Warm weather in France earlier this Winter, followed by cold weather in the […]
Generating Perfect Humanoids through Reinforcement Learning
(T) This is probably the state of the art (or close to it) of character physics-based animation for generating humanoids through reinforcement learning (RL) from a team of researchers at […]
The Lady who Whispers in Chimpanzees’ Ears
(E) After dedicating her life to studying primates and a huge career that began very early in Kenya, the famous British ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall is urging us to take […]
Rediscovering the Provence of Marcel Pagnol
(E) The Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley is offering this month a virtual tour of Provence with many events from cooking à la provençale, to painting like Cézanne, and learning why […]
Covid-19 – Day 426: Understanding the Long Term Effects of Covid-19 on the Body
(E) A very interesting article on Professor Ron Davis, from the Stanford Genome Technology Center, trying to save his son from the long-term effects of myalgic encephalomyelitis — a disease […]
Covid-19 – Day 421: Mapping T Cell Receptors to Covid-19 Antigens
(T) A biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies has developed a new test, called T-Detect Covid, that looks at signals of past Covid infections in the body T cells immune system. The […]
Understanding Deep Learning in the Infinite Width Limit
(T) Deep learning systems have achieved impressive results from language understanding, to protein sequencing, and autonomous vehicles. While it has long been known that artificial neural networks can approximate any […]
Covid-19 – Day 381: Meet Dr. Katalina Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman – the two Beautiful Minds behind the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines
(E) We have now known for over a year the two companies that delivered the first two Covid-19 vaccines – BioNtech and Moderna, based on mRNA. What we are now […]
Predicting SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Influenza Viral Mutations with Language Models
(T) In this third blog post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will summarize a recent research study on virus mutation.The recent Covid-19 pandemic […]
Generative Modeling for Engineering Protein Sequences
(T) In this second post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will try to describe the state of the art of protein sequencing. Protein […]
Deep Mind’s AlphaFold 2 Prediction of Protein Folding
(T) In the next three blog posts, I will try to summarize the present state of the art regarding the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, and […]
Covid-19 – Day 369: Moderna’s Vaccine Boost Against the Variant from South Africa (B1.351)
(E) Moderna released today new data about the protection of its vaccine against the new SARS-Cov-2 variants: “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Variants Update“. Long story short, the Moderna vaccine provides the […]
The U.S. is Back in the Paris Climate Agreement!
(E) Today, the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Agreement. What a good news! Merci Monsieur Le President, but please make the U.S. a leader and an example in […]
It’s a New Day in America!
(E) Yes – it is really…And, it is time to move forward…Controlling the pandemic – Providing economic relief – Tackling climate change – And, advancing racial equity… Note: The picture […]
Google Brain Research in 2020
(T) As he did since 2017, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Brain Team, and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of the key […]
Where do We Go from Here?
(E) Stanford University is celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a four-day webinar and documentary film festival that opens today on Friday evening, January 15th, and will […]
Apocalypse Cognitive
(E) I saw yesterday an interview from French social scientist Gérald Bronner about his latest book “Apocalypse Cognitive”. Following is a short introduction about his book: “La situation est inédite. […]
The Next Black Swan: the $13 Trillion Debt of both Developed and Developing Economies
(B) Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post “The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis“. Ten years after, it seems that nothing […]
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