(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) Music@Menlo chamber music festival will return this year at the Menlo School campus from July 16th to August 1st, but many concert performances will be also streamed. The theme […]
(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 © […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) La tradition du 1er mai – offrez un bouquet de muget, ça porte bonheur – the tradition of May 1st – give a bouquet of lily of the valley, […]
(E) The arts are starting to bloom again in the Bay Area and not only online but also offline: The SF Opera is offering a live performance of the “Barbier […]
(E) Another remarkable blog article, “the CureVac Vaccine, and a brief tour through some of the wonders of nature“, from (software engineer) blogger Bert Hubert who also wrote last year […]
(E) A remarkable blog article, “exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines“, from another (software engineer) blogger Jonas Neubert on discovering and understanding the supply chain […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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