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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

Published posthumously in 1966, his work, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata , serves as the theoretical foundation for computer viruses. Instead, here’s a look at a few infamous moments in the evolution of malware. Despite its impact, the cybercriminals behind Mydoom have never been caught or even identified.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Instead, we focus on the case where an experimenter has decided to run a full traffic ramp-up experiment and wants to use the data from all of the epochs in the analysis. Companies like Google [2], Amazon [3], and Microsoft [4] have all published scholarly articles on this topic.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

accounting for effects "orthogonal" to the randomization used in experimentation. For example in ads, experiments using cookies (users) as experimental units are not suited to capture the impact of a treatment on advertisers or publishers nor their reaction to it.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. In other words, your talk didn’t quite stand out enough to put onstage, but you still get “publish or perish” credits for presenting.