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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 14, 2021

COVID-19 – Day 457: Got my 2nd Dose of Covid-19 Vaccine Today

(E) I feel very privileged to not only have received my second Covid-19 vaccine dose today but also that my two doses were an mRNA vaccine, the one from Pfizer-BioNtech. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 11, 2021

No French Wines on your Table for 2021

(E) You can see the effects of global warming in your plate, and and in your glass. Warm weather in France earlier this Winter, followed by cold weather in the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 9, 2021

Generating Perfect Humanoids through Reinforcement Learning

(T) This is probably the state of the art (or close to it) of character physics-based animation for generating humanoids through reinforcement learning (RL) from a team of researchers at […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 3, 2021

The Lady who Whispers in Chimpanzees’ Ears

(E) After dedicating her life to studying primates and a huge career that began very early in Kenya, the famous British ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall is urging us to take […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 19, 2021

Rediscovering the Provence of Marcel Pagnol

(E) The Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley is offering this month a virtual tour of Provence with many events from cooking à la provençale, to painting like Cézanne, and learning why […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 15, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 426: Understanding the Long Term Effects of Covid-19 on the Body

(E) A very interesting article on Professor Ron Davis, from the Stanford Genome Technology Center, trying to save his son from the long-term effects of myalgic encephalomyelitis — a disease […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 7, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 421: Mapping T Cell Receptors to Covid-19 Antigens

(T) A biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies has developed a new test, called T-Detect Covid, that looks at signals of past Covid infections in the body T cells immune system. The […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 20, 2021

Understanding Deep Learning in the Infinite Width Limit

(T) Deep learning systems have achieved impressive results from language understanding, to protein sequencing, and autonomous vehicles. While it has long been known that artificial neural networks can approximate any […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 8, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 381: Meet Dr. Katalina Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman – the two Beautiful Minds behind the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines

(E) We have now known for over a year the two companies that delivered the first two Covid-19 vaccines – BioNtech and Moderna, based on mRNA. What we are now […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 5, 2021

Predicting SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Influenza Viral Mutations with Language Models

(T) In this third blog post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will summarize a recent research study on virus mutation.The recent Covid-19 pandemic […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 5, 2021

Generative Modeling for Engineering Protein Sequences

(T) In this second post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will try to describe the state of the art of protein sequencing. Protein […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 5, 2021

Deep Mind’s AlphaFold 2 Prediction of Protein Folding

(T) In the next three blog posts, I will try to summarize the present state of the art regarding the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, and […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 25, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 369: Moderna’s Vaccine Boost Against the Variant from South Africa (B1.351)

(E) Moderna released today new data about the protection of its vaccine against the new SARS-Cov-2 variants: “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Variants Update“. Long story short, the Moderna vaccine provides the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 20, 2021

The U.S. is Back in the Paris Climate Agreement!

(E) Today, the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Agreement. What a good news! Merci Monsieur Le President, but please make the U.S. a leader and an example in […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 20, 2021

It’s a New Day in America!

(E) Yes – it is really…And, it is time to move forward…Controlling the pandemic – Providing economic relief – Tackling climate change – And, advancing racial equity… Note: The picture […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 16, 2021

Google Brain Research in 2020

(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 key […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 15, 2021

Where do We Go from Here?

(E) Stanford University is celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a four-day webinar and documentary film festival that opens today on Friday evening, January 15th, and will […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 10, 2021

Apocalypse Cognitive

(E) I saw yesterday an interview from French social scientist Gérald Bronner about his latest book “Apocalypse Cognitive”. Following is a short introduction about his book: “La situation est inédite. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 7, 2021

The Next Black Swan: the $13 Trillion Debt of both Developed and Developing Economies

(B) Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post “The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis“. Ten years after, it seems that nothing […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 1, 2021

Happy New Year – Hope to Return to a Normal Life?

(E) Happy new year! Wishing to everyone the best, and hope that in 2021, our lives will finally return to a more normal stage. One of my favorite events during […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 31, 2020

Maria de Buenos Aires

(E) One of our family traditions is to go out on new year’s eve to see a wonderful performance. This year obviously, because of Covid-19, that will not be possible. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 28, 2020

Modern Portfolio Theory Updated?

(B) The stock market in 2020 has been one of the weirdest ones that I ever witnessed, as it was insanely disconnected from the economy. While the economy shrunk due […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 26, 2020

Analyzing the Recent US Massive Cyber Breach

(T) Bruce Schneider has just published an essay on December 24th in his blog and in the Guardian about the recent US massive cyber breach. The essay analyzes the state […]

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