Covid-19 – Day 971: Novavax Recombinant Protein Vaccine
(E) The FDA has just approved the Novavax vaccine, which is now the four Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S after Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J. Novavax’s vaccine leverages a recombinant protein […]
Simulating the Universe on a Supercomputer
(T) Stanford University’s KIPA – Kavli Institute for particle astrophysics and cosmology – had another public in-person lecture this month. The topics was “Simulating the Universe on a Supercomputer”. And, the presenter was […]
Prof. Viazovska, Duminil-Copin, June Huh, and Maynard Winning the 2022 Fields Medals
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal laureates are announced. This week, at the virtual 2022 ICM, it was announced that the Fields Medals were awarded to: […]
Covid-19 – Day 956: T Cells and the Immune System
(E) Covid-19 has certainly pushed to the edge, research on the immune system, and in particular the role of the T cells. Two recent article from the Harvard Medical School […]
An Humble Attempt to Understand the Work of Maryam Mirzakhani
(T) My high-school math teacher liked to draw perfect planes and spheres in a Euclidian space. With those perfect drawings, he expected that we will better understand geometry in a […]
Le Goût des Merveilles
(E) The Alliance Française of Silicon Valley is a wonderful place to learn about the French language and the French culture. They have many classes for all ages, book reading […]
Designing a Spark Data Pipeline
(T) One of my MLOps engineers asked me about my experience with the design of Spark data pipelines for processing large volume of data sets. Following is a summary of […]
Dark Matter in the Disordered Cosmos
(T) Stanford University’s KIPA – Kavli Institute for particle astrophysics and cosmology – had its first public in-person lecture last month. The topics was “Dark Matter in the Disordered Cosmos”. […]
Solving the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture in Probabilistic Combinatorics
(T) Very simply said, the Kahn-Kalai conjecture explores if a random graph is likely to have some sort of interesting structure such as it will contain a triangle, or it […]
OpenAI’s DALL.E 2
(T) OpenAi has released its second generation of model DALL.E 2 which generates images from text inputs. DALL.E showcases OpenAI’s research in multimodal and generative models. DALL.E 2 is capable […]
Toward the Magic Recipe to Make AI Systems “Intelligent”
(T) In 1956, a small group of scientists led by John McCarthy gathered for a Summer Research Project at Dartmouth University and established Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a scientific discipline […]
Former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Interviewed by Terry Gross
(E) Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air this week. “On what mrs Yovanovitch is hearing from friends and colleagues in Ukraine […]
Three Russians Garry Kasparov, Andrey Kortunov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky Discussing the Invasion of Ukraine
(E) Three Russians Garry Kasparov, Andrey Kortunov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky discussed the Invasion of Ukraine. All interviews are worthwhile to listen carefully. Garry Kasparov from New York: Key message: the […]
Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran and The San Francisco Bay Area Winter Drought
(E) The San Francisco Bay Area is in a serious drought! It rains in November and December but we did not have any rain in January and in February. The […]
Generalization to New Tasks with Imitation Learning
(T) Babies learn by exploring their environments, manipulating any objects that can fall in their hands, observing the behaviors of adults, and interacting with them. Animals are good observers too. […]
State of the Art for NLP Models
(T) NLP models are still the “big thing” in machine learning even if they cannot understand the meaning of the text or the speech that they are supposed to decipher […]
The Mathematics of Alexandre Grothendieck
(T) While everyone would agree that Albert Einstein was probably one the most influential physicists of the 20th century, it might be more difficult for most folks to come up […]
8 Rue de l’Humanité
(E) The pandemic has broken a few paradoxes in our lives which have lost sometimes basic humanity. So when Paris goes into lockdown during the pandemic in June 2019, the […]
Google Research in 2021 and Beyond
(T) As he did since 2017, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Research and Health Teams, and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of […]
Causality and Econometrics
(B) While one of my interests is causal inference in data science, and I have been studying causal inference for business applications in particular the life cycle of products, I […]
The Monarch is Back in Pacific Grove
(E) When we arrived yesterday close to the overwintering site of the monarch in Pacific Grove this Sunday, we could already see several monarchs above the trees canopy. Arriving at […]
The Rebirth of the California Condor, Threatened with Extinction 40 Years Ago
(E) With the disastrous effect of climate change, there are so many endangered species. See the picture below for the predictions of the United Nations on how climate change will […]
Happy New Year – Hope to Finally Return to a Normal Life?
(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best, and hope that in 2022, our lives will finally return to a more normal. I know I wished that already in […]
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