Palo Alto New Foodware and Produce Bag Requirements
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) Summer is definitely my favorite season. And, Music@Menlo one of my favorite events of the summer. This year, the seventeenth season of Music@Menlo runs from July 12th to August […]
(E) Over the years, I have noticed more and more RVs parked on the streets of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Redwood City. I cannot believe that a solution has […]
(B) The New York Times just published an article about Evernote: “A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel”. I do remember looking for a […]
(E) Over the last few years, the Bay Area has been focusing on an unstoppable real estate growing development of condos and business properties (which still does not even satisfy […]
(E) I heard a few weeks ago on KDFC, how J’Nai Bridges forever prepared herself to play the role of Carmen in Bizet’s opera: “Bridges made the decision to follow her […]
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
(T) I was kindly invited to attend the first “ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science” yesterday at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The summit organized by […]
(T) Erwin Tang, last year at the age of 18 rocked the world of quantum-based algorithms, by has given recently a very interesting talk titled “Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: […]
(E) Two years ago, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco offers Monet: The Early Years. This year, the De Young Museum is offering us Monet: The Late Years. And, […]