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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 16, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 120: The Implications of Hitting the Hard 0% Interest Rate Floor

(E) If you want to understand how the economy works, listen to hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. Following Sunday’s announcement of the Federal Reserve, Mr. Dalio published today an article […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 16, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 120: First Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine with Humans

(E) It goes without saying that some of the best biotech firms and researchers are working no stop to find a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus.  Today, Moderna ,a biotech […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 15, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 119: Testing, Testing, and Testing

(E) Business Insider has one chart that summarized how the US is behind many other countries in testing its population against the coronavirus: “One chart shows how many coronavirus tests […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 15, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 119: Why the Coronavirus Spread Exponentially, and how to “Flatten the Curve”?

(E) The Washington Post has a fantastic article that simulates how the coronavirus spreads exponentially in a population of 200 inhabitants, and why it is so important to slow its propagation: […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 15, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 119: Understanding the Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2

(E) The New Yorker has published a thorough interview –  Understand the Novel Coronavirus – with Justin Lessler, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 8, 2020

Waymo (ChauffeurNet) versus Telsa (HydraNet)

(T) Following are some easy to understand summaries of how Waymo and Telsa are approaching the design, architectures, and modeling of their self-driving cars. Note how much they differ.  Waymo […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 22, 2020

How Reinforcement Learning Enables a new Generation of Robots

(T) I had the pleasure to listen to several great talks about reinforcement learning from Professor Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley at the ODSC West Conference last Fall. I am […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 12, 2020

Agroecology Practices for Feeding the World!

(E) Félix Noblia, a farmer in South France, is testing many alternative agricultural practices: enhancing the soil, raising cows on pasture or combining crops, valued soils, agriculture without synthetic pesticides […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 8, 2020

The Doctor Who Tried to Warn China About the Coronavirus

(E) Such a sad story! The doctor who tried to warn China about the coronavirus – Doctor Li Wenliang – has died from the virus. In the Washington Post: “Chinese […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 18, 2020

Google Brain Research in 2019

(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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 10, 2020

Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2020

(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 21, 2019

NeurIPS 2019 @ Vancouver

(T) The 2019 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) was held this year from December 8th through December 14th, 2019 at the Vancouver Convention Center. Over 13,000 attendees! And […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 23, 2019

The Timing of the Next Recession and The Negative-Yielding Bond Bubble

(B) I watched Blackstone Q4 quarterly webcast on the financial markets. That webcast was prepared by Blackstone’s Byron Wien and Joe Zidle (I listened regularly to Byron Wien to understand […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 17, 2019

Manon Lescaut with Lianna Haroutounian and Conducted by Nicola Luisotti at the SF Opera

(E) I could not miss this Fall “Manon Lescaut” at the San Francisco Opera. So, I went to see it on November 16th. I was looking forward to listening to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 3, 2019

Waymo ChauffeurNet

(T) I had the opportunity to attend at the ODSC West conference, a talk from Waymo’s engineering manager’s Chen Wu. Following is a summary of what I learned about the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 12, 2019

The San Francisco Bay Area without Power Because of Climate Change!

(E) For the last two years, Northern California had the most destroying fires of its history. In October 2017, the North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires were a […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 6, 2019

Saving the Dark

(E) I had the pleasure to visit Point Reyes and its beautiful ecosystem of birds this week-end. On Saturday night, a group of astronomers from Santa Cruz were showing to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 29, 2019

Change is Coming, Whether You Like it or Not!

(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please watch carefully Greta’s […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 22, 2019

You Must not Gamble Your Children’s Future on the Flip of a Coin

(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please read carefully Greta’s […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 14, 2019

Leaving no Plastic to Landfills and to the Ocean

(E) You use plastic first thing in the morning when you grab your toothbrush, you probably have your lunch in a plastic container, and you drink water from your plastic […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 24, 2019

Re-Planet Closing its Recycling Sites

(E) Every quarter, I usually go to the Re-Planet recycling center located close to California Avenue in Palo Alto. I bring any bottle or can that I can recycle to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 17, 2019

The Power and Limits of Deep Learning

(T) I recently listened to a lecture from Yann LeCun on “The Power and Limits of Deep Learning” organized by ACM. Following are a summary in plain English based on […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 10, 2019

We Still Have Not Made any Drastic Changes Required to Win Over Climate Change

(E) The earth is transforming itself much faster than we are acting to mitigate climate change. Another summer. And, new record high temperatures. And, more wildfires destroying the world’s largest […]

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