Issue #193

March 6, 2023

This week’s Data Science Book is " Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures " by M. La Rocca. This book is a great resource for engineers who want to enhance their knowledge of algorithms and data structures without having to go back to traditional, academic-style textbooks. The author has a deep understanding of how to deliver high-quality code and each algorithm is thoroughly illustrated with pseudo-code and diagrams. The book is especially helpful for tackling contemporary problems such as multidimensional search, understanding caches better, classification, and graph theory. The writing is friendly and approachable, making it relatively easy to understand, although some familiarity with math may be helpful. It is a book that can be read, skipped around, and returned to from time to time when needed. Overall, this is a strongly recommended book for engineers looking to enhance their algorithm and data structure knowledge.

Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures

1. The Uniqueness of Human Recursive Thinking [americanscientist.org]
2. Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us [soatok.blog]
3. pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution [datapythonista.me]
4. Web Scraping LinkedIn Jobs using Python [scrapingdog.com]
5. Why (Graph) DBMSs Need New Join Algorithms [kuzudb.com]
6. Data ingestion pipeline with Operation Management [netflixtechblog.medium.com]
7. Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals [hbr.org]

• Predicting food crises using news streams (A. Balashankar, L. Subramanian, S. P. Fraiberger)
• Quantifying ideological polarization on a network using generalized Euclidean distance (M. Hohmann, K. Devriendt, M. Coscia)
• Rigorous Criteria for the Collapse of Nonlinear Cooperative Networks (R.-J. Wu, Y,-X. Kong, Z. Di, J. Bascompte, G.-Y. Shi)
• Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models (S. Goldwasser, M. P. Kim, V. Vaikuntanathan, O. Zamir)
• Contact networks have small metric backbones that maintain community structure and are primary transmission subgraphs (R. B. Correia, A. Barrat, L. M. Rocha)
• High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity (Y. Takagi, S. Nishimoto)
• Universal patterns in egocentric communication networks (G. Iñiguez, S. Heydari, J. Kertész, J. Saramäki)

AlphaZero from Scratch

March 6, 2023

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