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 © […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
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 […]
Summer Solstice ~ World Music Day
(E) Today, June 21st is the longest day of the year, and the summer solstice in our northern hemisphere. It is also World Music Day or la Fête de la […]
Could Machine Learning Become a New Instrument for Musicians?
(T) When I am listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, I have always been fascinated by how much I have the wrong certitude of listening to a concerto for violins from […]
Covid-19 – Day 503: A Summary of Machine Learning Contributions to Stop the Pandemic
(T) An excellent article from Maxime Nauwynck on “how has AI contributed to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic?” published in Stanford Gradient’s blog. The article looks at the contribution in […]
COVID-19 – Day 491: The Adjuvanted Recombinant Protein Vaccine from Sanofi-GSK
(E) Sanofi, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, and its partner GSK just announced the result of their vaccine that is based on an adjuvanted recombinant protein for their […]
Energy Observer Leaving San Francisco This Week-End!
(E) Energy Observer, a 100-foot catamaran, is the first vessel that both generates and is powered by hydrogen. The boat started its seven-year voyage from Saint-Malo, France, in 2017, and […]
Make sure to Protect your Data
(E) There have been recently many new high profile cases of ransomware: the Colonial Pipeline, the D.C. Police Department, and Scripps Health. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 described the techniques […]
Statistical Modeling on a Machine Learning Platform
(T) Statistical modeling and machine learning are sometime considered as the “same side of the same coin” since both fields leverages statistical methods to learn about data. But there are […]
COVID-19 – Day 475: Countries with or without the SARS-Cov-2
(E) There are countries such as New Zealand and Taiwan, where political and health care officials do not tolerate any spread of the SARS-Cov-2 (note that the political leaders in […]
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, […]
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 […]
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