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Protecting Your Cryptocurrency Wllets with Machine Learning

Smart Data Collective

Fortunately, new advances in machine learning technology can help mitigate many of these risks. Therefore, you will want to make sure that your cryptocurrency wallet or service is protected by machine learning technology. In 2018, researchers used data mining and machine learning to detect Ponzi schemes in Ethereum.

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The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability

O'Reilly on Data

They trade the markets using quantitative models based on non-financial theories such as information theory, data science, and machine learning. Whether financial models are based on academic theories or empirical data mining strategies, they are all subject to the trinity of modeling errors explained below.

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Information Transmission in a Social Network: Dissecting the Spread of a Quora Post

Edwin Chen

Much of Quora’s appeal, after all, lies in its social graph – and when you’ve got a network of users, all broadcasting their activities to their neighbors, information can cascade in multiple ways. Think, for example, of what happens when your kid learns a new slang word at school. Social Voting Dynamics.