Palo Alto New Foodware and Produce Bag Requirements
(E) Glad to see that effective January 1st 2020, the city of Palo Alto has new foodware and produce bag requirements: “In order to protect our local watersheds and oceans […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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