Wired - The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents

New Scientist - If an enormous solar flare like the one that hit Earth 150 years ago struck us today, it could knock out our electrical grids, satellite communications and the internet.

Karin Fister, Iztok Fister Jr., and Jana Murovec show that artificially encoded data can be stored and multiplied within plants.

VIDEOS | Each section of Sheldon Axler's textbook Linear Algebra Done Right in a video format with links to pdf files of the slides that accompany the corresponding videos

A curated list of awesome adversarial machine learning resources.

Science - Seth L. Shipman, Jeff Nivala, Jeffrey D. Macklis, and George M. Church harnessed CRISPR to generate records of specific DNA sequences into a population of bacterial genomes.

Ilya Loshchilov and Frank Hutter propose a simple warm restart technique for stochastic gradient descent to improve its anytime performance when training deep neural networks.

European Union's official regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR)

Quantamagazine - The same brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time. The research suggests that our thoughts may take place on a mental space-time canvas.

Tyler Vigen's collection of 30,000 spurious charts

Quantamagazine - The same mental processes that organize memories may also coordinate how we make decisions.

VIDEO | NASA Goddard present two model runs that allow to estimate consequences of a large CME hitting Earth, so we can better protect power grids and satellites.

Against the backdrop of the widespread notion that the human brain is literally extraordinary, Suzana Herculano-Houzel argues that, with 86 billion neurons and just as many nonneuronal cells, the human brain is "just" a scaled-up primate brain in its cellular composition and metabolic cost

This open content textbook by Pat Morin covers the implementation and analysis of data structures including stacks, queues, hash tables, binary search trees, heaps, graphs, and B-trees.

Here has come the age of “digital natives”, a generation born with the Internet. Their representation of the world, their perception of time and space, of what's real and what's virtual is “intrinsically” different from that of the previous generation who are only becoming aware of the virtues and limits of the "Google" effect.

Have you ever wondered where the Bessel's Correction came from? The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of EMORY breaks this down for you.

GAME | Eterna is an online game that invites everyone to help advance medical research.

Michael Lynch presents support for the hypothesis that natural selection pushes mutation rates down to a lower limit set by the power of random genetic drift rather than by intrinsic physiological limitations, and that this has resulted in reduced levels of replication, transcription, and translation fidelity in eukaryotes re...

A. H. Bittles and M. L. Black analyze consanguinity and its consequences in terms of complex diseases

A curated list of amazingly awesome tools and resources related to the use of machine learning for cyber security.

Robert Jensen uses the example of mobile phone adoption by fishermen in India to illustrate how information technologies may improve market performance and increase welfare.

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, explains why speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.

Tak Yan Leungb, Oliver Meng Ruic and Steven Shuye Wang analyze the effect of stock splits using intraday data and insider trading data in Hong Kong from 1980 to 2000

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR - Here is the extraordinary story of how one tenacious U.S. prosecutor brought the bank--and its government sponsors--to justice.

Matthew Richardson and Pedro Domingos propose an architecture that uses first-order probabilistic reasoning techniques to combine potentially inconsistent knowledge sources of varying quality, and uses machine-learning techniques to estimate the quality of knowledge.