Issue #118
July 4, 2021
This weeks Data Science Book is the most excellent "Feynman's Lectures on Computation" by R. P. Feynman. You might be familiar with Feynman's Lectures on Physics, but his lectures on Computation (based on a class he taught and his work in 'Connection Machine') aren't any less amazing. Through this short book, Feynman guides us through the concept of computation and the van Neumann architecture in his unique style, from logic functions, to Turing machines, coding and even quantum computers. While not directly related to Data Science, it will give you a unique appreciation of the finer points in which computers are "Dumb as hell but go like mad" so that you can better squeeze every bit of performance out of your code.
- 1. What Have Language Models Learned? [pair.withgoogle.com]
- 2. B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know [benjamincongdon.me]
- 3. Quantile Regression [hackmd.io]
- 4. What is category theory and why is it trendy? [katyhristova.medium.com]
- 5. When Correlation is Better than Causation [narrator.ai]
- 6. Build your own Grammarly in Python [towardsdatascience.com]
- 7. The Square Root Algorithm [cantorsparadise.com]
- • Interplay between population density and mobility in determining the spread of epidemics in cities (S. Hazarie, D. Soriano-Paños, A. Arenas, J. Gómez-Gardeñes, G. Ghoshal)
- • Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning (C. Shorten, T. M. Khoshgoftaar, B. Furht)
- • An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry (F. Nielsen)
- • Dynamics of majority rule on hypergraphs (J. Noonan, R. Lambiotte)
- • Self-testing and vaccination against COVID-19 to minimize school closure (E. Colosi, G. Bassignana, D. A. Contreras, C. Poirier, S. Cauchemez, Y. Yazdanpanah, B. Lina, A. Fontanet, A. Barrat, V. Colizza)
- • Program Synthesis with Large Language Models (J. Austin, A. Odena, M. Nye, M. Bosma, H. Michalewski, D. Dohan, E. Jiang, C. Cai, M. Terry, Q. Le, C. Sutton)
- • Knowledge Graphs 2021: A Data Odyssey (G. Weikum)
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