The monthly digest #05
Machine Learning
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Spotify, how Machine Learning finds your new music
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Machine Learning on encrypted data
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Generating memoji from photos, feat. Donald Trump and Barack Obama emojis
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Some GANs application to colorization of old B&W images, here and here
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This would be more statistics and simulations than Machine Learning, but it is definitely worth the read for any data scientist: the inspection paradox and the waiting-time paradox
Visualisation
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This d3js embeds a very basic propagation engine but the ground track visualisation of satellites orbits is pretty cool.
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A good essay on exploratory analytics: averages, clustering, neural networks finding patterns and t-SNE visualising them.
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Walking on the edge between illustration and infographics
Air Traffic Management
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Why the shortest (great-circle) route is not always the fastest
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What an ATIS is, from the history to the data link version
Documentary
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Un hommage en quatre épisodes à Alan Turing. On parle de Bletchley Park, de mathématiques, de son jardin, de sa passion pour la course à pied, etc.
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Le parfum d’Irak par @Feurat Alani, suite à sa série Twitter sur l’Irak de son enfance
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Demain; pour raconter cette histoire, l’équipe se rend dans 10 pays: la France et l’île de la Réunion 🇫🇷, le Danemark 🇩🇰, la Finlande 🇫🇮, la Belgique 🇧🇪, l’Inde 🇮🇳, la Grande-Bretagne 🇬🇧, les États-Unis 🇺🇸 , la Suisse 🇨🇭, la Suède 🇸🇪 et l’Islande 🇮🇸…
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장마당, Jangmadang Generation, how people found their way around the regime and try to survive North Korea 🇰🇵
Command Line Tools
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A great review (with comments), presenting good tools for your daily shell life. Among them, tools I did not know (yet) include bat, fd, entr, prettyping and noti
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Why I still use Vim, and the reason goes further than “because I couldn’t find how to quit it”
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Check how to activate the extract plugin for oh-my-zsh.
Programming
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A history of the Lisp language, and its place in the computer science museum
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Where Zen of Python (
import this) comes from (source) -
Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
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Well, this one is not programming, no corner case in the IEEE 754 specification for floating point numbers, just maths!
