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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 26, 2021

Elevating Human Conditions to the Highest

(E) Elevating human conditions to the highest. Human rights and justice for South Africa and everyone on earth. Desmond Tutu. Wikipedia: Desmond Tutu New York Times: “Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 20, 2021

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)

(T) Graphs have recently been “the big thing” for deep learning. There are perfect examples of machine learning applications in the Non-Euclidian space. Graphs have been used to predict friends […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 18, 2021

Machine Learning in Non-Euclidian Spaces

(T) The fundamental representation of any feature for any machine learning model is the vector and its multidimensional generalization which is the tensor. This has led to developing machine learning […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 16, 2021

Covid-19 – Day 701: Omicron Severity and Transmission

(E) The LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong found in a new research study why Omicron is less dangerous than Delta but more viral than Delta. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 1, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 22, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 24, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 2, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 26, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 25, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 18, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 12, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 1, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 21, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 10, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 1, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 24, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 16, 2021

Music@Menlo – The Nineteenth Season: Gather

(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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 4, 2021

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 © […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on June 26, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on June 21, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on June 7, 2021

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 30, 2021

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 […]

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