This was first published on February 16th, 2018 at Subir Mansukhani’s Mailing List, Subirority Complex.
General
Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted
Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.
Just How Shallow is the Artificial Intelligence Talent Pool? — Bloomberg
Research from Element AI indicates only 22,000 have right skills globally
Data Can Enhance Creative Projects — Just Look at Netflix
Number-crunching can connect creators and niche audiences.
Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality — Bain & Company
The business environment of the 2020s will be more volatile and economic swings more extreme.
The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker — The New York Times
The entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist and the best-selling author discuss their surprising bond, the challenge to improve the human condition and the quest to create the perfect toilet.
Machine Learning
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
WIRED’s new columnist Jason Pontin on the limits of modern artificial intelligence.
How AlphaGo Sparked a New Approach to De Novo Drug Design
Researcher Olexandr Isayev wasn’t just impressed to see an AI framework best the top player of a game so complex it was considered impossible for an algorithm to track. He was inspired.
One Shot Learning and Siamese Networks in Keras — Neural Tinkering
[Epistemic status: I have no formal training in machine learning or statistics so some of this might be wrong/misleading, but I’ve tried my best.]
Designing A/B tests in a collaboration network
Measuring bot and human behavioral dynamics
Technology
Crypto Canon — Andreessen Horowitz
Here’s a list — building on and including Chris’ last roundup — of crypto readings and resources. It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts and beginners’ guides — followed by specific topics such as governance; development, privacy, and security; scaling; consensus; cryptoeconomics and investing; fundraising and token distribution; decentralized exchanges; stablecoins; and cryptoeconomic primitives (crytocollectibles, curation markets, games & culture).
Bitcoin Security: Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat — YouTube
A whimsical security analysis of the open, public and decentralized bitcoin system, compared to the closed, proprietary and centralized alternatives.
Uber Marketplace Meetup: Using Distributed Locking to Build Reliable Systems — YouTube
To make our systems more consistent, Uber Engineering implements distributed locking at all stages of a trip’s lifecycle. During Uber’s Marketplace Meetup on…
Diving into Akka Streams — RedElastic
Streaming is the ultimate game changer for data-intensive systems in a world where every second counts.
Chinese researchers use a powerful new technique to describe mathematical features of a network.
