(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 […]
(E) I could not miss this Fall “Manon Lescaut” at the San Francisco Opera. So, I went to see it on November 16th. I was looking forward to listening to […]
(T) I had the opportunity to attend at the ODSC West conference, a talk from Waymo’s engineering manager’s Chen Wu. Following is a summary of what I learned about the […]
(E) For the last two years, Northern California had the most destroying fires of its history. In October 2017, the North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires were a […]
(E) I had the pleasure to visit Point Reyes and its beautiful ecosystem of birds this week-end. On Saturday night, a group of astronomers from Santa Cruz were showing to […]
(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please watch carefully Greta’s […]
(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please read carefully Greta’s […]
(E) You use plastic first thing in the morning when you grab your toothbrush, you probably have your lunch in a plastic container, and you drink water from your plastic […]
(E) Every quarter, I usually go to the Re-Planet recycling center located close to California Avenue in Palo Alto. I bring any bottle or can that I can recycle to […]
(T) I recently listened to a lecture from Yann LeCun on “The Power and Limits of Deep Learning” organized by ACM. Following are a summary in plain English based on […]
(E) The earth is transforming itself much faster than we are acting to mitigate climate change. Another summer. And, new record high temperatures. And, more wildfires destroying the world’s largest […]
(T) So far the best-known technique to mitigate adversarial examples is adversarial training. Adversarial examples are images that have been modified to fool a generative adversarial network (GAN). And in […]
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