• Why Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Spread Exponentially
  Without any measures to slow it down co-vid-19 will continue to spread exponentially for months. To understand why, it is instructive to stimulate the spread of a fake disease through a population...

• Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
  With everything that’s happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What? Here’s what I’m going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources: How many cases of coronavirus will there be in your area? What will happen when these cases materialize? What should you do? When?...

• AlphaGo - The Movie | Full Documentary
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  At the time of writing, the coronavirus disease of 2019 remains a global health crisis of grave and uncertain magnitude. To the non-expert (such as myself), contextualizing the numbers, forecasts and epidemiological parameters described in the media and literature can be challenging. I created this calculator as an attempt to address this gap in understanding...

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  In the absence of widespread testing, we need to rely in EpiQuery (and ILINet, the federal CDC version covering all 50 states) to understand the likely growth of the COVID-19 outbreak...

• Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2)
  Here we use observations of reported infection within China, in conjunction with mobility data, a networked dynamic metapopulation model and Bayesian inference, to infer critical epidemiological characteristics associated with SARS-CoV2, including the fraction of undocumented infections and their contagiousness...

• Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour
  This visualization shows the behavior of the final 10-dimensional layer of a neural network as it is trained on the MNIST dataset. With this technique, it is possible to see interesting training behavior...

• Introducing Dreamer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Using World Models
  Today, in collaboration with DeepMind, we present Dreamer, an RL agent that learns a world model from images and uses it to learn long-sighted behaviors. Dreamer leverages its world model to efficiently learn behaviors via backpropagation through model predictions...

• Does On-Policy Data Collection Fix Errors in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning?
  In this blog post, we will dive deep into analyzing a central and underexplored reason behind some of the problems with the class of deep RL algorithms based on dynamic programming, which encompass the popular DQN and soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithms – the detrimental connection between data distributions and learned models...

• Analysis of Hyper-Parameters for Small Games:
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  There has been surprisingly little research on design choices for hyper-parameter values and loss-functions, presumably because of the prohibitive computational cost to explore the parameter space. In this paper, we investigate 12 hyper-parameters in an AlphaZero-like self-play algorithm and evaluate how these parameters contribute to training. We use small games, to achieve meaningful exploration with moderate computational effort...

• Neural Tangents: Fast and Easy Infinite Neural Networks in Python
  Neural Tangents is a high-level neural network API for specifying complex, hierarchical, neural networks of both finite and infinite width. Neural Tangents allows researchers to define, train, and evaluate infinite networks as easily as finite ones...

• Higher accuracy on vision models with EfficientNet-Lite
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• The Dataset of Epidemiological Case Reports for COVID-19
  This repository contains a dataset (named ECR-COVID-19) of epidemiological case reports with entity labeling which can be used for information extraction. The motivation of creating and contributing the dataset is to trigger the research on epidemiologic investigation analysis and automation...

• A Simple Way to Gather all Coronavirus Related Data with Python
  The objective of this article is to get the needed data for research and gain proactive visibility on COVID-19...

• Common pitfalls in interpretation of coefficients of linear models
  Nice tutorial on interpreting coefficients of linear models...

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