Issue #27

Dec 1, 2019

Dear friends,

Welcome to the post-Thanksgiving edition of the Sunday Briefing.

This week we take a deep dive on Blockchain and Digital Ledger technologies the differences, limits and overall characteristics. In a similar vein, we also look at how Machine Learning is transforming fields as diverse as market intelligence, Physics and online gaming. Finally, in the video of the weeks, Mitzi Morris gives us a taste of Bayesian Inference in his recent PyData NYC talk.

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Semper discentes,

The D4S team

Top Links:

Tutorials and blog posts that came across our desk this week.

AI takes on popular Minecraft game in machine-learning contest [nature.com]
Google’s new ‘Explainable AI” (xAI) service [towardsdatascience.com]
Understanding the generalization of ‘lottery tickets’ in neural networks [ai.facebook.com]
What makes an image memorable? Ask a computer [news.mit.edu]
How machine learning is revolutionising market intelligence [economist.com]
Are Neural Networks About to Reinvent Physics? [nautil.us]
DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression using Learned Statistics of Natural Videos [research.fb.com]
The Difference Between Blockchains & Distributed Ledger Technology [towardsdatascience.com]

Fresh off the press:

Some of the most interesting academic papers published recently.

Causality for Machine Learning (B. Schölkopf)
Rigging the Lottery: Making All Tickets Winners (U. Evci, T. Gale, J. Menick, P. S. Castro, E. Elsen)
Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s (X. Song, C. G. Massey, K. A. Rolf, J. P. Ferrie, J. L. Rothbaum, Y. Xie)
A Time Series Analysis of Emotional Loading in Central Bank Statements (S. Buechel, S. Junker, T. Schlaak, C. Michelsen, U. Hahn)
Network Embedding: An Overview (N. Arsov, G. Mirceva)
Quantifying segregation in an integrated urban physical-social space (Y. Xu, A. Belyi, P. Santi, C. Ratti)
Blockchains: a Systematic Multivocal Literature Review (B.-J. Butijn, D. A. Tamburri, W.-J. Van den Heuvel)
More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain (N. Gandal, J. S. Gans)

Video of the week:

Interesting discussions, ideas or tutorials that came across our desk.

Bayesian Inference for Fun and Profit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aXmf0vYuB4

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Opportunities to learn from us

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