(T) I finally had a chance to start studying OpenAI’s GPT-3. GPT-3, like GPT-2 provides many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, and in particular reading comprehension, summarization, translation and question […]
(B) I have been recently thinking how to propose KPIs for an infrastructure-oriented product versus KPIs for a consumer-oriented product, and how they might differ. A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) […]
(E) How do you experience art online without the intimacy, the conviviality, and the emotional connection that live performances do? My favorite summer chamber music festival, Music@Menlo, will be online […]
(B) I really enjoyed this video from Chris Dixon venture partner at Andreessen Horowitz at Y Combinator‘s Start-up School. Mr. Dixon rightly articulates the goal of a venture investor which is […]
(E) There are today many opportunities to celebrate La Fete de La Musique ,also known as World Music Day, virtually, as many events have been canceled due to the coronavirus […]
(T) One of the key goals of many data scientist teams is to develop models faster for new use cases and new applications. To that end, “transfer learning” which aims […]
(E) Looking back at the mistakes that caused human lives, Professor Philippe Parola, directeur de service de soins et d’unité de recherche à L’Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseilles, looked back […]
(B) Someone from LinkedIn emailed me to attend a virtual meet-up “AI/ML: in Product Management: Applications and best practices for leveraging AI/ML in products”, organized by the “LinkedIn Women in […]
(B) I taught a machine learning class to Product Managers two years ago. I have slightly updated the content of that class. A lot of Product Managers working on machine […]
(E) Excellent research from UCSF, Institut Pasteur, Gladstone Institutes, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find the right antiviral drugs for Covid-19: “A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map […]
(E) Yale School of Medicine has updated its initial treatment algorithm for hospitalized patients with non–severe COVID-19 which uses hydroxychloroquine and tocilizumab: Yale Releases COVID-19 Treatment Algorithm Covid-19 adult treatment […]
(E) The Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical has developed a site that tracks all Covid-19 vaccine candidates as they progress through the development pipeline. The […]
(E) I have heard many times Professor William Dally from Stanford University and nVIDIA’s Chief Scientist talking about training deep learning systems on GPUs. During the shelter, Professor Dally led […]
(E) Latest analyses from Professor Didier Raoult and the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseille, who conducted early successful tests with the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment to Covid-19, on […]
(E) A fantastic Q&A about virology with Professor Etienne Simon-Lorière for everyone to listen to. Questions asked were what is a virus, the virus genome, RNA and DNA viruses, the family of coronavirus viruses, what is a cell receptor, how a virus infects the body, how a cell replicates a virus, what is an infection, […]
(E) The latest epidemiological data have revealed that current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2. A new research paper from the Institut Pasteur […]
(E) Institut Pasteur has today published a detailed analysis “estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France“, and an overview of its analysis in a press release in French “une modélisation […]
(E) Many have challenged the preliminary results from a study, COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, published by Stanford University last Friday. That study indicated that the number of […]
(E) An excellent Twitter thread from Professor Carl Bergstrom, from the University of Washington, on explaining the impact of overshoot when trying to achieve herd immunity. Long story short: “with […]
(E) Germany, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Danemark have all women leaders. And, all those countries had the most adequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as analyzed in a Forbes magazine article. Note: The picture above is the picture of Angela Merkel from Wikipedia (By Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia […]
(E) Several hypotheses discussed by Professors Akiko Iwasaki and Nathan Grubaugh from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology about why japan has […]
(E) There have been many articles recently, such as this one from ScienceMag, that have reported the correlation between the BCG and the propagation of Covid-19: Can a century-old tuberculose […]
(E) Stanford University has created an antiviral research database for the coronavirus. In particular, it includes the ongoing and planned clinical trials of antiviral compounds. Note: The picture above is […]
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