(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 […]
(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 […]
(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% […]
(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, […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 biotech […]
(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 […]
(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: […]
(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 […]
(T) Following are some easy to understand summaries of how Waymo and Telsa are approaching the design, architectures, and modeling of their self-driving cars. Note how much they differ. Waymo […]
(T) This week, I had the opportunity to attend for the fourth time, the fifth Scaled Machine Learning conference that was held for the second time at the Computer History Museum in […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) Such a sad story! The doctor who tried to warn China about the coronavirus – Doctor Li Wenliang – has died from the virus. In the Washington Post: “Chinese […]
(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 […]
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from […]
(E) Glad to see that effective January 1st 2020, the city of Palo Alto has new foodware and produce bag requirements: “In order to protect our local watersheds and oceans […]
(T) The 2019 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) was held this year from December 8th through December 14th, 2019 at the Vancouver Convention Center. Over 13,000 attendees! And […]
(B) I watched Blackstone Q4 quarterly webcast on the financial markets. That webcast was prepared by Blackstone’s Byron Wien and Joe Zidle (I listened regularly to Byron Wien to understand […]
