Dear friends,

Welcome to the Feb 16th edition of the Sunday Briefing.

This week was a major week for major project developments, with Facebook announcing the release of an Unprecedented URL Dataset that they are making available for academic research, Microsoft publishing Turing-NLG a new state of the art language model, fast.ai releasing their new API for Deep Learning  and SciPy celebrating their 1.0 release with a overview article in Nature.

Speaking of articles, this week we also have an overview of Machine Learning in Python by Sebastian Raschka, an introduction to Hypergraphs and Metrics for graph comparison and the latest developments on the how to predict the speed Epidemic Spreading in Networks, a topic near and dear to our hearts.

Finally, in the video of the week, Greg Winther will give us a timely overview on the basics of modeling epidemic spreading by Implementing a SIR Disease Model in Python.

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Semper discentes,

The D4S team