5 for the weekend
This thread is an effort to track some of the interesting reads that I may come across over the course of the week. Topics covered — Stats, ML/AI, Domain specific case studies, R/Python coding, Behavioral, Physics, Mathematics, Art, Travel etc. — basically anything and everything
5 for the weekend | Week 40 | 2023 Oct 6th
Viswanathan Anand On India’s Past, Present, And Bright Future In Chess
How I Boosted my Metabolism and Lost 30 lb
5 for the weekend | Week 45 | 2022 Nov 18th
Karl Popper — Theory of Falsification | video
5 for the weekend | Week 42 | 2022 Oct 21st
Harvard negotiator explains how to argue | Dan Shapiro
Bell’s inequality and 2022 Nobel prize
1. Sixty symbols(Quantum Entanglement and the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics — Sixty Symbols,Spooky Action at a Distance (Bell’s Inequality) — Sixty Symbols,
2. Minutephysics,
3. 3B1B
Messier objects playlist— Sixty Symbols
The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film
What was Oppenheimer Thinking? Body Language | Behind the Facade #2
Bonus reads — At once tiny and huge: what is this feeling we call ‘sublime’?
5 for the weekend | Week 33 | 2021 Aug 13th
Checking out a 6-Billion parameter GPT model, GPT-J, from Eleuther AI
Other flowers #bookmark
5 for the weekend | Week 32 | 2021 Aug 06th
What is the the difference between a quasar and a galaxy?
Journey to the Edge of the Universe (Sean Pertwee) — Full HD 1080p
Revenue system Of Chatrapati Shivaji maharaj – Inside Simple Finance
How to Wake Up Smiling: The 9 Decisions That Led To A Life I Love
How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
Bonus reads — What if We Nuke the Moon?
5 for the weekend | Week 50 | 2020 Dec 11th
Hans Zimmer — Time — Most Inspirational Video Italy 4k #bookmark #Mountains
Transamericana with Rickey Gates running 3700 miles across America | Salomon TV #bookmark
Why Sitting Down Destroys You | Roger Frampton | TEDxLeamingtonSpa #bookmark
Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it’s Complicated. #bookmark
How to Slow Down the Passing of Time | Jedidiah Jenkins | TEDxOccidentalCollege
Bonus reads — The Great Steel Rebound | Sun Has Reversed Polarity Starting New 25th Solar Cycle | Are you still using Pandas for big data? | CEIL(),FLOOR() & ROUND() THE DATAFRAME IN PANDAS | COLUMN BIND IN PYTHON PANDAS | pandas.pivot_table | Poncelet’s Porism — Numberphile | Books to help you answer big questions about yourself
5 for the weekend | Week 39 | 2020 Sep 25th
4th Dimension — Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy — Carl Sagan
Jiddu Krishnamurti — Very moving talk to a child #bookmark
How This Woman Rides 20,000 Miles a Year on Her Bike | WIRED #bookmark
How to travel the world with almost no money | Tomislav Perko | TEDxTUHH #bookmark
Life Lessons From a 7-Thousand-Mile Bike Ride | Short Film Showcase #bookmark
Bonus reads — Adam Ondra #47: The Best Boulder Ever Built | The Rickshaw Puller | NASA spots first ever ‘survivor’ planet orbiting close to star’s corpse | Stop One-Hot Encoding Your Categorical Variables | The Most Likely Way You’ll Get Infected With Covid-19 | M14 — Cluster Destruction — Deep Sky Videos
5 for the weekend | Week 37 | 2020 Sep 11th
Journey of an Athlete | Hima Das
How not to take things personally? #bookmark
Bonus reads — Calm | Why do calculators get this wrong? (We don’t know!)
5 for the weekend | Week 36 | 2020 Sep 4th
The Trapped Knight — Numberphile
Compute lagged or leading values
Combinations and permutations in R
A Surprising Pi and 5 — Numberphile
The Brussels Choice — Numberphile
5 for the weekend | Week 35 | 2020 Aug 28th
I Drank A Gallon Of Water A Day For Better Skin — & Here’s What Happened
Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae
Do Storks Deliver Babies? — Numberphile
Mahalanobis distance with “R” (Exercice)
5 for the weekend | Week 34 | 2020 Aug 21st
Preserving through the pandemic with art
Outlier Detection in Multivariate Data
Hive Operators and User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
Bonus reads — ggplot: Boxplot with fill and standard errors | ggplot: Boxplot of multiple column values
5 for the weekend | Week 33 | 2020 Aug 14th
ANALYSING 10+ YEARS OF R BLOGS
Ramanujan’s First Letter to G.H. Hardy #bookmark
Dask — A better way to work with large CSV files in Python
A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics #bookmark
The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage
Bonus reads — The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People | Fast And Friendly File Finagler | The most (time) efficient ways to import CSV data in Python
5 for the weekend | Week 19 | 2020 May 8th
Trans Himalaya 2019 — speed hiking 120 passes in 120 days #bookmark
HOMELESS SALESMAN #bookmark
How to Become the Happiest Version of You #bookmark
Courtney Dauwalter Ultra Runner
Bonus reads — Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means | Six Psychological Strategies to Improve Your Running Performance — Plus A Discount off A New Performance Mindset Course | Nature needs us to act — now | How to Know If You’re Living Up to Your Potential | De-stigmatizing Mental Illness Early: Role of Childhood Animations
5 for the weekend | Week 08 | 2020 Feb 28th
11 Phrases That People Love to Hear
The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You
Bertrand Russell — Message To Future Generations
I Spent 15 Years Studying Why People Hate Their Jobs. This Is the Top Reason
Bonus reads — Arnold Schwarzenegger tells his rules of success
5 for the weekend | Week 50 | 2019 Dec 12th
The Engineering Problem of A/B Testing
Michel de Montaigne on How to Learn a Language Effortlessly #bookmark
How to Calibrate Undersampled Model Scores
Chinese Scientists Discover a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist: LB-1
Forecasting Volcanic Eruptions with Artificial Intelligence
Bonus reads -Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent #bookmark | The Archimedes Number — Numberphile
5 for the weekend | Week 47 | 2019 Nov 22nd
Metrics to measure machine learning model performance
How to automatically segment customers using purchase data and a few lines of Python
Using Machine Learning to Improve Streaming Quality at Netflix
How to estimate the value of your customers the right way
PyTorch at Tesla — Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
Bonus reads — Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes | Voyager 2 Discovers Wall of Fire at Solar System’s Edge | I‘m trying to make a living writing. But it just doesn’t work.
5 for the weekend | Week 41 | 2019 Oct 11th
Understanding Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) #bookmark
Paytm’s Founder Says Winning in India Prepared Him for the World — overview of Indian payment wallet market
Model Evaluation in the Land of Deep Learning
calculating percentiles for multiple columns in R
Can Everyone Become Talented? — Story of the Polgar Sisters (animated)
Bonus reads — How to Keep Going When You Severely Doubt Yourself | Lead and lag data.table | data.table merge by multiple columns | Read all but last line of CSV file in pandas; Dealing with EoF issue
5 for the weekend | Week 40 | 2019 Oct 4th
StatQuest: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Step-by-Step
3 as the sum of the 3 cubes — Numberphile
TensorFlow 2.0 is now available!
Using TensorFlow to predict product weight and dimensions #bookmark
Bonus reads — How do I round datetime column to nearest quarter hour — python | 5 Ways to Make Friends When You’re Socially Awkward
5 for the weekend | Week 39 | 2019 Sep 27
Netflix: Binging on the Algorithm
How one NASA image tells dozens of stories #bookmark
Strange Spheres in Higher Dimensions — Numberphile
Bonus reads — Toughening the Mind by Challenging the Body #bookmark | What It Felt Like to Almost Die | THE WHY | Running 100 Miles | How To Run 100 Miles | Gearbox Software Borderlands 3 Art Blast | The Mystery of 42 is Solved — Numberphile
5 for the weekend | Week 38 | 2019 Sep 20
Machine learning for anomaly detection and condition monitoring
Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction #bookmark
Adversarial Attacks on Neural Networks — Bug or Feature?
How to Deal with Imbalanced Data using SMOTE
How to Stop Overthinking #bookmark
Bonus reads — Covariance | Covariance matrix | How to improve illustration skills #bookmark | Riemann Hypothesis — Numberphile | How to write trycatch in R | Use tryCatch skip to next value of loop upon error? | Anomaly Detection with R | Mahalanobis distance | Problems with Zero — Numberphile | Fibonacci Mystery — Numberphile
5 for the weekend | Week 37 | 2019 Sep 13
This Adorable Baby T-Rex AI Learned To Dribble
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
DeepMind: The podcast 3: Life is like a game
Bonus reads — Grandi’s Series | Sum of Natural Numbers (second proof and extra footage) | What I learnt while losing 8 kilos of fat in 7 weeks…
5 for the weekend | Week 36 | 2019 Sep 6
How to Look at Paintings in an Art Museum #bookmark
Spreadsheet Understanding Using Statistics and Deep Learning
CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION IS #SOLVABLE
DeepMind: The podcast 2: Go to Zero
Bonus reads — Why do I ride bicycles while all others are driving? | Jacob Klink | TEDxHejiangting #bookmark | The Size and Shape of Raindrops — Sixty Symbols | The Key to Creative Work Is Knowing When to Walk Away #bookmark | Expanding the boundaries of human knowledge
5 for the weekend | Week 35 | 2019 Aug 30
Data Analysis of 10.000 AI Startups
Team uses AI to detect fast radio bursts
DeepMind podcast | Episode 1: AI and neuroscience — The virtuous circle
Terry Fox: The Man Who Ran 143 Consecutive Marathons…On One Leg #bookmark eda brick
Bonus reads — How do black holes shape the cosmos? | An introduction to Reinforcement Learning #bookmark | Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment | Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) | How Deep Neural Networks Work | When a Grain of Sand Hits Earth at 100,000,000x Light Speed | Are we born to run? | Christopher McDougall | TED #bookmark
5 for the weekend | Week 34 | 2019 Aug 23
Object Detection with 10 lines of code
How To Break A Negative Thought Loop #bookmark
L1 Norm Regularization and Sparsity Explained for Dummies
XGBoost Algorithm: Long May She Reign!
Introducing PDPbox — for interpreting black box models
Bonus reads — How to Develop Obnoxiously Thick Skin #bookmark | Python guide to datetime library | ggplot in python | Peeking Inside the Black Box: Visualizing Statistical Learning with Plots of Individual Conditional Expectation | How to change the Jupyter start-up folder
5 for the weekend | Week 33 | 2019 Aug 16
How computers learn to recognize objects instantly | Joseph Redmon
Want To Improve Your Self-Awareness? Answer These 20 Questions #bookmark
Paperswithcode — trending research papers with code
Neural Networks and Deep Learning | Machine Learning — 2 of the best courses by Andrew Ng
Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study — an icebreaker for statistics
5 for the weekend | Week 32 | 2019 Aug 09
What Is the F-test of Overall Significance in Regression Analysis?
A sketch a day, everyday for a month: What I’ve learned so far #bookmark
These Delicate Animal Illustrations From Over 200 Years Ago Are Incredibly Beautiful
5 for the weekend | Week 31| 2019 Aug 02
Don’t Manage Your Time — Manage Your Energy
The Most Powerful Lessons People Learn Much Too Late in Life
The Power Law: Turn Small Improvements to Amazing Results #bookmark
Beyond Accuracy: Precision and Recall
How to Improve a Neural Network With Regularization
5 for the weekend | Week 29 | 2019 July 19
The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python
Here’s the Playbook I Used To Go From Dead-Broke to “Successful”
Think Like An Executive: Psychological Strategies Of Top Performers
How To Stop Being Afraid of Looking Stupid
Gratitude: How To Change Negative Beliefs, Be Happy, And Become Successful — #bookmark
PS. — Most of the articles this week are behavioral. The ‘#bookmark’ text is just for my reference
5 for the weekend | Week 27 | 2019 July 05
Five AI Startups You Need To Know About
Interview with a Product Manager from FANG
Understanding Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and the F-test
Why do we convert skewed data into a normal distribution?
Why to perform variable transformation?
5 for the weekend | Week 26 | 2019 Jun 28
Fortune-Telling with Python: An Intro to Facebook Prophet
Gradient Boosting from scratch
Visualising high-dimensional datasets using PCA and t-SNE in Python
The Age of Hyper-Personalization and AI
What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong
5 for the weekend | Week 25 | 2019 Jun 21
An Overview of Python’s Datatable package
A Practical Guide to Tree Based Learning Algorithms
A Complete Tutorial on Tree Based Modeling from Scratch (in R & Python) — similar to the 2nd link but explains how the model chooses which variable to split the node on in more detail
Democratising Machine learning with H2O
Ensembles (3): Gradient Boosting
5 for the weekend | Week 24 | 2019 Jun 14
Be a Better Negotiator in Everyday Life
Introduction to Multilayer Neural Networks with TensorFlow’s Keras API
Why is logistic regression required? Why not linear regression?
What is the difference between probability and likelihood?
FAQ: HOW DO I INTERPRET ODDS RATIOS IN LOGISTIC REGRESSION?
PS. — The mail subject is plagiarized from a senior colleague. He won’t mind
