reading

Here’s a collection of research papers or other articles I found particularly interesting. They come from all over: shares from friends, my Google feed, or the paper citation equivalent of a Wiki rabbit hole. More recently, I’ve been enjoying the morning paper.

Title Art

Primordial Soup from Patterns of the Universe. The squiggly design was created by assigning a random value to each pixel then repeatedly blurring and sharpening the image until a pattern emerges. Colors by me.

Large Scale Computing

• morning paper: The Tail at Scale
• morning paper: Gray failure

Machine Learning at Scale

• morning paper: Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt

Deep Learning & Optimization

• Matching Networks for One Shot Learning
• One Model to Learn Them All
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

Computer Vision

• YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger

Data Mining

• Improving Similarity Search with High-dimensional Locality-sensitive Hashing
• Survey of Clustering Data Mining Techniques