Introduction

Everyone and their grandparents are talking about it: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning (DL), Machine Learning, Robotics, etc… Sometimes all those terms at once within the same sentence, sometimes as synonyms. If there’s one sure thing, these subjects have gained in popularity, to the point the general public has been having growing expectations. Major progress in facial recognition, image classifiers, in AI-vs.-human gaming (GO, DOTA), or self-driving cars, have created understandable hype. The hype itself was also driven by the over-zealous promises from CEOs and leading researchers.

But hype only survives when concrete applications come into place, and this is still…

In Short

The 9th of January marked NIO Day 2020. In case you don’t know it, NIO is an electric-vehicle (EV) company. They’ve been touted the “Tesla of China”. And such as Tesla, their stock has been on a massive bull-run, increasing by 1000% in 2020. As of today, the company is offering three models of SUVs: the EC6, ES6 and the ES8.

Their approach to EV is interesting, as they offer a service known as BaaS, short for Battery as a Service. Clients can purchase any vehicle, and rent the battery for a monthly fee. This allows for a lower upfront…

Introduction

In this article, I will cover a few topics:

• What interval training is, and present some of its advantages. I have been following this method at times over the years. More recently, I have returned to it with more seriousness. I found the results in such a short timespan impressive,
• Pieces of advice and reminders of common sense to follow,
• My personal experience, including my current training program made of 3 different sessions,
• Why you should make the interval training method yours,

What is Interval Training?

Whenever one talks about Interval Training (IT), one refers to the alternation in training intensity. The idea is…

You are out, on your own, and you are running. Congratulations, you have, temporarily, embraced the power of running in the rain

Rain, and to a lesser extent cloudy skies, count among runner’s many enemies. Or if not enemies, at least, sources of discouragement. There is a clear pattern: when the sun shines and the weather is sweet, a runner’s motivation is high. But as the weather takes a turn, that motivation can flag.

The key is to realize the positive aspects of these rainy runs. I have gathered my experiences of years of running with hundreds of workout sessions…

For as long as I can remember I never dreamed of running a marathon. I know, pretty counter-intuitive with the title. The thing is, with a distance of 42.2 km a marathon is a massive effort. To realise its scale, I often think of a time I walked 5 km to meet a friend or reach a local business. That gentle walk through the city was a mix of noise, tension and heat. Imagine now doing this effort 8 times, without breaks and at a two-fold speed or even faster. The location could be different, the amount of heat, tension…

Attention is like a currency you agree to spend on people and content. Nowadays, we spend a lot of time on our phones, computers, social networks, and watching TV. But is that a bad thing? I’d not rush to say it is. Two questions to ask are: Who do you give your attention to? And what are you doing there?”

The Endless Scroll was a revolution on the internet. All of a sudden, we could not find the bottom of a page. You’d scroll, on and on, and be hit by new pieces of content every few pixels. …

A runner has got to run.

For he or she is built to run and only thrives when the kilometres add up.

But a runner also encounters pain.

The heels. The feet. The thighs. The hamstrings. The calves.

I forget some, do not blame me. Less is more, especially in the case of pain.

A runner excels at managing pain. The day-after soreness? A runner knows when it will be gone.

Running is two things: managing one’s energy, and one’s body. And nothing else.

Enters the unmanageable pain. The one which makes a runner reconsider things, his plan. The pain…

Missing Data

If you open an Excel file and scroll to the bottom (tip: CTRL + south arrow) you’ll find out it ends at 1,048,576. Not a single row more.

This limitation was blamed by Public Health England for the loss of 15,841 positive COVID test results, as reported by The Guardian¹. In turn, following the estimate that each non-complex case has 3 close contacts, it leads to at least 47,000 potentially infectious people not being informed and required to self-isolate, and potentially be traced. This figure can rise beyond 50,000 as it was reported² that a minority of the 15,841 missing…