70 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/2H0ZxvR (via SIAM)

After the Fall lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-l…

Dead fish don’t read minds (improbable things happen a lot) teenspecies.github.io/pdfs/NeuralCor…

Newly open-sourced google.github.io/filament/Filam…

blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/th…

randomness, probability and free will github.com/elsehow/aarons…

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase disq.us/t/36tug8u

A post from July 2016 that bears on the announcement today by The Nobel Prize committee: paulromer.net/conditional-op…

Logical Induction - Computerphile youtu.be/gDqkCxYYDGk via YouTube

Local maxima and the fallacy of jumping to fixed-points egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/fal…

Musings on Markets: Big Markets, Over Confidence and the Macro Delusion aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2015/08/big-ma…

The Invention of Money | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

RIP Good times - lessons from 2008 sequoiacap.com/article/rip-go…

So many folks (esp. the media) are missing the complete backstory on $GME and how we got here. This has been simmering for over a year and the story behind it is great. I’ve been tracking this since September and devoured all of the details from the origin through today.

“The 3 Tricks That Made AlphaGo Zero Work” by Seth Weidman hackernoon.com/the-3-tricks-t…

What’s impressive for computer scientists is the density of the data that DNA stores: a single gram can hold roughly a zettabyte. trib.al/mlTaPRJ

A Mathematician's Lament maa.org/external_archi…

why decisions aren’t transitive: ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/Tv…

A Brief Tour of FLP Impossibility the-paper-trail.org/blog/a-brief-t…

Which ML algorithm to use, in one chart: bit.ly/2HEPigm (via @RecastAI) #AI #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #DataScience #bigdata