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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mitigating Adversarial Examples by Re-Constructing the Input Images
(T) So far the best-known technique to mitigate adversarial examples is adversarial training. Adversarial examples are images that have been modified to fool a generative adversarial network (GAN). And in […]
Incredible Decades
(E) Summer is definitely my favorite season. And, Music@Menlo one of my favorite events of the summer. This year, the seventeenth season of Music@Menlo runs from July 12th to August […]
Sleeping on the Roads
(E) Over the years, I have noticed more and more RVs parked on the streets of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Redwood City. I cannot believe that a solution has […]
The “Slow” but “Steady” Fall of Evernote
(B) The New York Times just published an article about Evernote: “A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel”. I do remember looking for a […]
San Francisco Bay Area be Prepared for the “Big One”
(E) Over the last few years, the Bay Area has been focusing on an unstoppable real estate growing development of condos and business properties (which still does not even satisfy […]
J’Nai Bridges Playing Carmen at the San Francisco Opera
(E) I heard a few weeks ago on KDFC, how J’Nai Bridges forever prepared herself to play the role of Carmen in Bizet’s opera: “Bridges made the decision to follow her […]
Aujourd’hui La Fete de la Musique a Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science
(T) I was kindly invited to attend the first “ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science” yesterday at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The summit organized by […]
Quantum-inspired Classical Linear Algebra Algorithms
(T) Erwin Tang, last year at the age of 18 rocked the world of quantum-based algorithms, by has given recently a very interesting talk titled “Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: […]
Monet – The Late Years @ De Young Museum
(E) Two years ago, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco offers Monet: The Early Years. This year, the De Young Museum is offering us Monet: The Late Years. And, […]
The Big LEAP from Tina Seelig
(B) Professor Tina Seelig, who teaches creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Stanford University, has started LEAP, a new podcast series on “how to launch a career, unpacking the often overlooked […]
Scaled Machine Learning Conference @ the Computer History Museum
(T) This week, I had the opportunity to attend for the third time, the fourth Scaled Machine Learning conference that was not held at Stanford University but the Computer History Museum […]
Todays’ Turing Awards to the Three Musketeers of Deep Learning
(T) Earlier this year, I tried to summarize in one slide, the top 20 scientists who contributed the most to the field of artificial intelligence over three generations. Obviously, this […]
OpenAI’s GPT-2 Language Model
(T) OpenAI released this week its second-generation language model GPT-2. That model provides reading comprehension, summarization, translation, and question answering. It is so good so OpenAI fears that it could […]
Exploring Millennial Hopelessness though Chekhov’s The Seagull
(E) Paulina Our lives are almost over! Arkadina I know dear, but what can we do? “Cue long silence” Is life tragic or hilarious? Are mankind failures tragic or hilarious? […]
Saving the Monarch in the Bay Area
(E) I went this weekend to visit the Pacific Grove’s sanctuary for the Monarch. It was depressing to see so few butterflies. Please plant some milkweed in your garden this […]
Google Brain Research in 2018
(T) As he did last year, Jeff Dean, the tech lead of the Google Brain Team and probably one of the most famous Silicon Valley engineers, shared some of the […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2019
(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 […]
Playing the Korngold Violin Concerto with Brio – Léa Bourgade and Paul Philips
(E) I adore listening to Paul Philips, Conductor of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra (and also the Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University) describing how he orchestrates a delightful musical program […]
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