Passing the Data Baton :
A Retrospective Analysis on Data Science Work and Workers

A paper on the different components of data related work. They also proposed a framework and a team structure for data workers.

Crisan_DataScience.pdf

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Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies
http://www.theorangeduck.com/page/machine-learning-kolmogorov-complexity-squishy-bunnies

Theorangeduck

Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies

Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction

Right...

What? This is my most used non communication app....

https://lwn.net/Articles/845480/
Interesting. This is accepted.

lwn.net

Pattern matching accepted for Python

The Python steering council has, after some discussion, accepted the
controversial proposal to add a
pattern-matching primitive to the language.
"We acknowledge that
Pattern Matching is an extensive change to Python and that reaching
consensus across the…

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[D] Convolution Neural Network Visualization - Made with Unity 3D and lots of Code / source - stefsietz (IG)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/leq2kf/d_convolution_neural_network_visualization_made/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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#research

hmmm

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00341-3

Nature

The future of grant proposals is video

Nature - Written grant proposals are inefficient to prepare and review, and scoring is notoriously unreliable. It’s time to consider audio-visual alternatives.

#research

ConnectedPapers is now integrated into arXiv.

This new perspective of references is often overlooked. It is not a gimmick at all.

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“Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work”: Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI

TL;DR:
- Data quality is crucial in any AI especially for those with high-stakes.
- Many data work are overlooked easily: politics (some data entries are not recorded or misrecorded), human in the loop of data quality interventions for cleaning and wrangling but upstream data creation shall be controlled well too, etc
- Data Cascades: how the issues are cascading from upstream to downstream should be clear.

> Data Cascades: compounding events causing negative, downstream effects from data issues, resulting in technical debt over time.

https://research.google/pubs/pub49953/

research.google

"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work": Data Cascades in High-Stakes AI

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Visualizing Weights
https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/visualizing-weights

Distill

Visualizing Weights

We present techniques for visualizing, contextualizing, and understanding neural network weights.

#fun

hahaha

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0520-2?fbclid=IwAR1-L-MZRAuHO1YTFhAu5_zETTjgkHpEg5-HgGywEGpITbYQpU2Yld5IzrU

By computational neuroscientist

Nature

A deep learning framework for neuroscience

Nature Neuroscience - A deep network is best understood in terms of components used to design it—objective functions, architecture and learning rules—rather than unit-by-unit...

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Road freight between Britain and EU is down by a third, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/31/road-freight-britain-eu-down-third-data-shows-brexit


Yeah, thanks to brexit

the Guardian

Road freight between Britain and EU is down by a third, data shows

Hauliers increasingly refusing to take loads across channel because of Brexit controls

#market
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-administration-monitoring-the-situation-with-gamestops-stock-white-house-says-2021-01-27?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20210128

hmm why is the gov/feds interested in this Gamestop thing? 🙀
(I have very limited knowledge about stocks.)

MarketWatch

Biden administration 'monitoring the situation' with GameStop's stock, White House says

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and others in the Biden administration are keeping an eye on the huge...

#data

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/recovery-dashboard/

Eurostat built a dashboard to show the socioeconomic indicators of EU during the corona virus period.
It is seen that most indicators are recovering.

EUROPEAN STATISTICAL RECOVERY DASHBOARD

Statistics serving Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/recovery-dashboard/

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Sarcasm Detection with Sentiment Semantics Enhanced Multi-level Memory Network - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925231220304689

Sheldon, this is your thing!
(Didn't read the paper. I just find this title a bit amusing.)

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http://akosiorek.github.io/ml/2018/03/14/what_is_wrong_with_vaes.html

- instabilities
- “last-mile” effort in optimization is too high

akosiorek.github.io

What is wrong with VAEs?

Latent Variable ModelsSuppose you would like to model the world in terms of the probability distribution over its possible states \(p(\mathbf{x})\) with \(\m...

#science
https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

> Research debt is the accumulation of missing interpretive labor. It’s extremely natural for young ideas to go through a stage of debt, like early prototypes in engineering.

That is because our value system doesn’t respect interpretors…

Distill

Research Debt

Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...

#git
https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-git-pull-rebase/

> Some people claim “git fetch; git rebase origin/master” is equivalent to “git pull -r”, but it isn’t.

git pull -r also deals with squashes.

#TIL
> Rebase hell happens when several commits on your branch edit the same area, and upstream also touched the same area. The problem occurs because each conflict resolution will itself conflict with the subsequent commit in the series.

#TIL

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/l4y427/til_larry_hillblom_the_h_of_dhl_regularly_took/

> TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.

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