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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 24, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 128: Mount Sinai to Begin the Transfer of COVID-19 Antibodies into Critically Ill Patients

(E) We know for sure that transferring antibodies from health patients to critically ill ones should work. Mount Sinai Hospital, based in New York, is working on it: Mount Sinai […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 23, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 127: Modeling the Exponential Covid-19 Epidemic Growth Rate

(E) Modeling the epidemy – from understanding the basic math of what is exponential growth…     which says, that from the data outside China as March 6th, the number […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 22, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 126: Worldwide Clinical Trials of the Most Promising Treatments for Covid-19

(E) We just need one to work well, and asap! Reported in ScienceMag: “WHO launches global mega trial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments“. Treatments include: Remdesivir (antiviral – […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 22, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 126: How Professor Raoult at Mediterannee Infection will Treat COVID-19 Patients?

(E) 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, have announced how they […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 21, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 125: FDA Approves Cepheid 45 mns SARS-Cov2 Test for Hospitals

(E) Cepheid, a  company which provides automated molecular diagnostics through its GeneXpert® System for hospitals has announced a new test approved by the FDA for Covid-19 that can be performed […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 21, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 125: The Tip of the Iceberg from David Ho HIV Virologist Pioneer

(E) Caltech published a complete, clear, and concise summary of the conoravirus pandemic in a Q&A with David Ho, whose research has been key for the understanding of the HIV […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 20, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 124: Goldman Sachs 2nd Quater GDP Contracting by 24%

(E)  CNBC reported the latest economic forecast of Goldman Sachs. Economists, at the financial firm, are forecasting a historically sharp and swift recession, with second-quarter GDP sinking a stunning 24% […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 20, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 123: Why Country is Flattening the Curve?

(E) The New York Times has published today which countries have been successful to flatten the curve? So far Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and China. Italy, Spain, Iran, France, […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 18, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 122: Sanofi Offers Anti-Malaria Treatment for COVID-19 after “Promising” Trials

(E) Sanofi said it could potentially treat COVID-19 patients with its anti-malarial drug Plaquenil after what it described as “promising” early test results. Sanofi said it was ready to work […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 18, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 122: La Musique de Renaud Capuçon pour Adoucir nos Moeurs

(E) Famous French cellist Gautier Capuçon was supposed to perform with MTT and the San Francisco Symphony orchestra several concerts from Tuesday to Saturday last week. But all those concerts […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 16, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 120: From Paris to San Francisco PLEASE STAY HOME!

(E) Seven counties of the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered nearly 7 million residents to shelter in place for the next three weeks as health officials scramble to keep […]

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 29, 2020

Second Scaled Machine Learning Conference @ the Computer History Museum

(T) This week, I had the opportunity to attend for the fourth time, the fifth Scaled Machine Learning conference that was held for the second time at the Computer History Museum in […]

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 […]

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