Issue #146
July 4, 2021
- 1. Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died [ft.com]
- 2. Principal Component Selection: The Broken-Stick Model [mohanwugupta.com]
- 3. Shopify's Data Science & Engineering Foundations [shopify.engineering]
- 4. Why Graph Computing is STELLAR [juliustech.co]
- 5. How to use undocumented web APIs [jvns.ca]
- 6. Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata [blog.notdot.net]
- 7. 5 Python Libraries That Will Help Automate Your Life [medium.com/geekculture]
- 8. What You Must Know about Memory, Caches, and Shared Memory [eidos.ic.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tau]
- • Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant (N. Andrews, J. Stowe, F. Kirsebom, S. Toffa, T. Rickeard, E. Gallagher, C. Gower, M. Kall et al)
- • Homophily in Voting Behavior: Evidence from Preferential Voting (L. Coufalová, Š. Mikula, M. Ševčík)
- • Modeling Communicable Diseases, Human Mobility, and Epidemics: A Review (D. Soriano-Paños, W. Cota, S. C. Ferreira, G. Ghoshal, A. Arenas, J. Gómez-Gardeñes)
- • Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross-sectional study (A. Gimma, J. D. Munday, K. L. M. Wong, P. Coletti, K. van Zandvoort, K. Prem, CMMID COVID-19 working group, P. Klepac, G. James Rubin, S. Funk, W. J. Edmunds, C. I. Jarvis)
- • No More Than 6ft Apart: Robust K-Means via Radius Upper Bounds (A. I. Humayun, R. Balestriero, A. Kyrillidis, R. Baraniuk)
- • It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (S. Vigna)
- • Bandit Sampling for Multiplex Networks (C. Baykal, V. K. Potluru, S. Shah, M. M. Veloso)
- • The mathematics of adversarial attacks in AI -- Why deep learning is unstable despite the existence of stable neural networks (A. Bastounis, A. C. Hansen, V. Vlačić)
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