DisclaimerThis article is intentionally high-level and devoid from technical jargon. That said, at times, I will mention a few technologies/services to give you more concrete examples. For these... (more…)

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Between 2015 and 2020 I have participated in Quantopian and Numerai tournaments. Being involved in these tournaments has led me to a very profitable journey: I made around $350k during these years. (more…)

Compute, data, and algorithmic advances are the three fundamental factors that guide the progress of modern Machine Learning (ML). In this paper we study trends in the most readily quantified factor - compute. We show that before 2010 training compute gre... (more…)

Among the many R packages, there is the outbreaks package. It contains datasets on epidemics, on of which is from the 2013 outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China, as analysed by Kucharski et al. (2014):