- Why Americans Spend So Much on Health Care—In 12 Charts by the Washington Post "Americans aren’t buying more health care overall than other countries. But what they are buying is increasingly expensive." - Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms. by the Harvard Business Review "So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms?" - Data's day of reckoning by O'Reilly "What does it mean to take responsibility for building, maintaining, and managing data, technologies, and services?" - DRAW THIS. by Dan Macnish "Draw This is an instant camera that draws cartoons." - How Goodreads offloads Amazon DynamoDB tables to Amazon S3 and queries them using Amazon Athena by AWS blog "At Goodreads, we’re currently in the process of decomposing our monolithic Rails application into microservices." - [Github] T2F: text to face generation using Deep Learning - [Paper] Blood Bowl: The Next Board Game Challenge for AI

Here are some non-GDPR related articles for you to read. - How can Santa keep his lists when GDPR is around? by Worldbuilding "I haven't been notified by Santa and/or his elves that he is collecting data about me. And mind you: my name and surname are my personal data, not to mention data on whether I have been good or naughty." - Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney by BBC News "The data centre, a white cylinder containing computers, could sit on the sea floor for up to five years." - Machine Learning: how to go from Zero to Hero by FreeCodeCamp "If your understanding of A.I. and Machine Learning is a big question mark, then this is the blog post for you. Here, I gradually increase your Awesomenessicity™ by gluing inspirational videos together with friendly text." - How Policymakers Can Foster Algorithmic Accountability by Center for Data Innovation "Policymakers should reject these proposals and instead support algorithmic decision-making by promoting policies that ensure its robust development and widespread adoption." - Counterintuitive examples in probability by Mathematics "For a simple random walk, the mean number of visits to point b before returning to the origin is equal to 1 for every b≠0." - Reinforcement Learning from scratch by Insight "Contrary to many classical Deep Learning problems that often focus on perception (does this image contain a stop sign?), Deep RL adds the dimension of actions that influence the environment (what is the goal, and how do I get there?). - Machine learning explained with gifs: style transfer by Eliot Andres "Pioneered in 2015, style transfer is a concept that uses transfers the style of a painting to an existing photography, using neural networks." - Kubernetes best practices: upgrading your clusters with zero downtime by Google Cloud Platform Blog "Today is the final installment in a seven-part video and blog series from Google Developer Advocate Sandeep Dinesh on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment."

🎼 Gimme gimme more 🎶 - Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form? by MIT Tech Review "For engineers, the question of whether to store information in analog or discrete form is easy to answer. Discrete data storage has clear advantages, not least of which is that it is much more robust against degradation." - Growing up with AI: How can families play and learn with their new smart toys and companions? by MIT Media Lab "After reflecting on my own childhood, I can’t help but wonder what this experience will look like for today’s children, who are not just growing up with the web, but are also the first generation of kids to grow up with artificial intelligence (AI) in their daily lives." - The AI Doctor Will See You Now by the Wall Street Journal "As machines learn from at times millions of humans, doctors are gaining the ability to better identify disease and even predict it before it becomes catastrophic." - The Markov Property, Chain, Reward Process and Decision Process by Xavier Geeinck "To illustrate this with an example, think of playing Tic-Tac-Toe. When we are able to take a decision based on the current state, rather than needing to know the whole history, then we say that we satisfy the conditions of the Markov Property." - Simple and comprehensive tutorials in TensorFlow by easy-tensorflow

Never enough! Here are more links that we enjoyed reading this week, just for you. - Why Machine Learning Is A Metaphor For Life by Adit Deshpande - Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence by Elle O'Brien - Inside the Increasingly Complex Algorithms That Get Packages to Your Door by MIT Tech Review - Design makes AI smarter by Elaine Lee - Why Elon Musk is Wrong about AI by Daniel Jeffries - How To Survive Corporate Politics as A Data Scientist by SeattleDataGuy - Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled 'Justifiable' by TheUpshot - God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution by Fact Tank - How We Built a Lifetime Eclipse Predictor by Source - Useless Data Comparisons by Flowing Data - Does Your State Care More About Batman or Puppies? by DiscoverGeek - An AI Dreamed Up Street Scenes, and They're Surprisingly Good by MIT TechReview - Understanding overfitting: an inaccurate meme in supervised learning by Memo's Island - Data Science Rosetta Stone: Classification in Python, R, MATLAB, SAS, & Julia by Heaton Research - [Paper] Some Philosophical Problems from the standpoint of Artificial Intelligence - [Paper] How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps: An annotated reading list - [Paper] A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing - [Paper] Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures From Binaries