Covid-19 – Day 685: What do we Know about Omicron?
(E) What do we know about the SARS-Cov-2 variant named Omicron? From what I understood, not much, except that its spike protein has many more mutations than the Delta variant […]
1933, 1945, and 2020: What do those Years have in Common?
(E) 1993, 1945, and 2020 are the only years, since the beginning of the industrial revolution around 200 years ago, when worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide dropped. And, why did […]
The Flying Car from Chinese Electric Vehicle Maker Xpeng
(T) There have been many Silicon Valley companies Joby Aviation, Kitty Hawk, Wisk, and Archer which have been working on flying cars for a few years now. Today, Xpeng, Tesla’s […]
Covid-19 – Day 627: Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics Covid-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment
(E) The beautiful city of Manaus, full of history about the Amazonas, reached natural herd immunity in the Fall of 2020 when around 75% to 80% of its population had […]
Causal Inference Use Cases from Technology to Business
(T) I wish I could have an application that would help me to explore the causal relationships of various inputs on an outcome, so that I could play between different […]
The Pegasus Spyware
(T) The Pegasus spyware is quite impressive. Developed by the NSO Group in Israel and sold to governments across the world, it has been capable of collecting passwords, reading text […]
Covid-19 – Day 613: Covid Patients Transported from Tahiti to Paris
(E) Eight French Polynesian patients in intensive care from Covid-19 were transported on Friday, September 17th on a plane from Tahiti to Paris in a 22 hours flight. The cost […]
Distributed and Declarative Deep Learning Systems
(T) Developing deep learning models is hard. Debugging deep learning models is even harder. And, few companies have data pipelines that provide the training and inference of large scale deep […]
Attempts to Solve the Collatz Conjecture
(E) Named after German mathematician Lothar Collatz who introduced it in 1937, the Collatz conjecture is one of those fun math problems that are simple to explain but very difficult […]
Tesla AI Day 2021
(T) Tesla had this week a recruiting event for data scientists and software engineers: “Tesla AI Day”. In my opinion, Andrej Karpathy and his team during that event have shown […]
We Will Lose the Habitability of our Planet in Just Two Decades!
(E) According to the latest and 6th assessment report from the IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) “emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1°C […]
Covid-19 – Day 566: State of Knowledge about the Delta Variant
(E) A few recent articles that summarize the present state of knowledge about the Delta variant from the revue Nature: Reduced sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 variant Delta to antibody neutralization How […]
Multi-Task Prediction of Organ Dysfunctions in ICUs
(T) An interesting research from Google Health on predicting organ dysfunctions in intensive care units (ICUs). The system uses multi-task models, which take into account a variety of competing risks along […]
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 © […]
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 […]
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