Weekly Recap 2020-08-08

Log of things seen in week 2020-08-01 to 2020-08-08

AI / Data Science / Math

Why You Should Never, Ever print() in a Lambda Function

Hopfield Networks Is All You Need “The transformer and BERT models pushed the performance on NLP tasks to new levels via their attention mechanism. We show that this attention mechanism is the update rule of a modern Hopfield network with continuous states.”

The Future of Machine Learning is Tiny and Bright

Leveraging ML to Fuel New Discoveries with the arXiv Dataset “The entire dataset of 1.7M+ arXiv papers is now available for free on Kaggle”

Introduction to Airflow in Python on DataCamp

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

Google Earth Timelapse

Judea Pearl tweets on hidden gem causality papers: Causal Discovery from Changes, White and Lu on graphical models for economoists

SpaceX splashdown

Blockchain Blockchain Blockchain

Yearn delegated vaults

Learn Yearn

Yearn governance concerns

First Credit Delegation on Aave Protocol to DeversiFi is Here

Beginner’s Guide to Use FURUCOMBO “Furucombo is a tool built for end-users to optimize their DeFi strategy simply by drag and drop. Just like building your own DeFi legos, but you don’t need to know how to code. It visualizes complex DeFi protocols into cubes. Users just need to enter inputs/outputs and set up orders of the cubes (we call this a “combo”), then Furucombo will package all the cubes into one transaction and send out.”

Testing Ethereum Smart Contracts

8 things stopping CeFi from integrating DeFi - tl;dr exchanges are fine with token transfers but not calling smart contracts

Hermez Network “The Iden3 team unveils a zk-rollup to help scale the Ethereum network”

Interest-Bearing Stablecoin Pools Without Impermanent Loss using Balancer

How to Create your own Balancer pool