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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) Christmas is always the time when most of us are with our family. But this year is different as no one should travel. And so, we are discovering the […]
(T) Most of the innovations in deep learning have come over the last few years from new natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Google’s Transformer with self-attention mechanisms has certainly changed […]
(T) Another quite surprising security breach. FireEye disclosed this week details of a cyber attack that it believes was carried out by “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”. Specifically, FireEye […]
(E) Great political leaders are the ones that will have or had a long-term impact on the well-being of a nation and its citizens. Their policies and actions created the […]
(E) Today, Moderna announced the results of its phase 3 study, and gave some additional details about its vaccine. Moderna vaccine is slightly more efficient than the one from BioNTech, […]
(B) I watched Blackstone Q4 quarterly webcast, titled “no clarity until 2022”, on the financial markets. That webcast was prepared by Blackstone’s Byron Wien and Joe Zidle. I enjoy listening […]
(E) The second wave is here. Infections have been rising to the roof: Europe, the U.S., South America, and Russia. The U.S have now over 150,000 new daily cases, and […]
(E) Today is a good day! Pharmaceutical giant partner Pfizer announced today that the vaccine developed with its partner BioNTech, a bio-tech company located in Mainz in Germany, against the […]
(E) One of my favorite fun activities, every Fall, is to attend a performance of the San Francisco Opera. And to select which opera performance I will attend, I usually […]
(E) Taiwan and New Zealand have a huge advantage over other countries fighting the propagation of SARS-CoV-2: they are islands. Closing and reopening offices, schools, restaurants, gyms do not work. […]
(E) 2020 will be a different year in many ways. The streets empty of kids during Halloween. Note: The picture above is the house from one of my neighbors, an […]
(E) Quanta Magazine has a new interesting article “Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record“. The new record was broken by PhD student Nathan Klein and his advisers from the University […]
(E) Gora Ndiaye is making the impossible possible in Senegal. Fertilizing the desert. Mr. Ndiaye is a magician of the permaculture, growing many types of trees and plants in a […]
(B) After the successful IPOs of SnowFlake, Unity, and Sumo Logic, CNBC has published an article about Sequoia Capital “Silicon Valley’s most prominent VC firm had a banner week: $9 […]
(T) Google had an online Quantum Computing Symposium this Summer. I missed it! But all the videos are on YouTube, and I watched a few of them. Following is the […]
(B) The recent surreal time, due to Covid 19, has been a challenge for many start-ups in Silicon Valley since the capital markets have been dried for new IPOs. Without […]
(E) I woke up today wondering if it was still the night or a new day. The sky was red! And, my car front window was covered with ashes. According […]
(T) I really enjoyed watching this fun video from Professor Sergey Levine on autonomous decision making systems using deep reinforcement learning. Most of the content is somewhat “high level” but require some […]
(E) I had such a blast listening to Angélique Kidjo singing her song, Lonlon, with Vincent Niclo. The music is Ravel’s Bolero. Stop everything, and just listen to it… Additionally, […]