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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noël
(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 […]
The Transformer Architecture Replacing CNNs?
(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 […]
Cyber Security Attack on FireEye
(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 […]
Monsieur Le President
(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 […]
Covid-19 – Day 369: Finally Moderna’s Finished Phase 3
(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, […]
No (Economic) Clarity until 2022
(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 […]
Covid-19 – Day 369: The Second Wave is Here!
(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 […]
Covid-19 – Day 361: BioNTech and Pfizer Vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2
(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 […]
Un Ballo in Maschera
(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 […]
Covid-19 – Day 359: Slovakia Attempting to Test Entire Adult Population for Covid
(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. […]
2020 An Halloween without any Kids
(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 […]
A New Algorithm for the TSP (Traveling Saleperson)
(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 […]
Fertilizing the Desert
(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 […]
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