Rules of Machine Learning:Best Practices for ML Engineering -This document is intended to help those with a basic knowledge of machine learning get the benefit of best practices in machine learning from around Google. It presents a style for machine learning, similar to the Google C++ Style Guide and other popular guides to practical programming.
The dynamical structure of political corruption networks : this is a really fascinating paper presenting an analysis of corruption and the network of individuals participating in corruption. Interesting enough: corruption runs in small groups that rarely comprise more than eight people, in networks that have hubs and a modular structure that encompasses more than one corruption scandal.
Increasing the Flow of Rumors in Social Networks by Spreading Groups : Looks like by fragmenting groups rumours flow more easily in social networks. To a certain extent, this mimics real life as by isolating and fragmenting group it becomes easier to spread gossip due to the difficulty by an individual in each group to check the validity of the information within its neighbourhood.
Antbleed : Apparently, BITMAIN, the ASIC system provider of up to 70% of bitcoins miner embedded a backdoor that can disable or compromise remotely its hardware. The funny aspect is that it can potentially allow the company to pass the 51% control of bitcoin miner network, and hence allow it to rewrite the whole blockchain. The 51% threshold has always been considered as a theoretical threat that was not attainable in real circumstance. Well, guess what, it's not theoretical anymore.
Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization : An analysis of bots on socials network (twitter). I think we need a reverse Turing test. When a robot can detect when they talk to a human.... Reverse captcha to weed out that pesky meat-bag from meddling from our robotic overlord affairs.
Timescale : SQL compatible time series database. Another competitor for Influxdb. Let's just say that the clustering feature will make or break it as Influxdb has some serious issue there [github]
