Networks Beyond Modeling: Google Brain and Deep Learning
In this course we study networks which we can model mathematically and we learn the basic tools which allow us to reason about networks. Often this modeling leads us to draw some networks on paper. Limited by the size of the average piece of paper, this leads students to think that a majority of networks […]
China’s Tighter Control of Networks
Networks come in many different forms; when one thinks of networks, he or she would either think of the relationships and connections made between people. Another huge network is the Internet, a provider of unlimited information in today’s society. To a certain extent, networks are controlled. In a social network, the nodes are the people […]
Spotify’s Music Selection
Spotify’s new Discovery mode, Nestify, uses information from your previous Spotify listening habits to recommend new music. It is based on several factors, all relating to the concept of clusters. Spotify developed the system because they realized people don’t keep track of the music they listen too all the time. For example, you may think […]
Connected Realms
World of Warcraft not too long ago made an adjustment to its servers in order to accommodate for those servers that did not have as many players playing on them. This had both an effect on the social side as well as the economic side. For one it assisted with the population balance which is […]
Analyzing the Friend Graph
A few days ago, on September 18th, 2014, Facebook announced that they have made a few tweaks to their new feed algorithm. One of the key parts of keeping Facebook relevant in the pop culture is to keep the content that it presents to a user relevant. As you probably know, Facebook tries to put […]
To slay, or not to slay.
Rackspace, a leading cloud service provider, made a blog about their story of fighting against a patent troll just today. Last year, a company named Rotatable Technologies sued Rackspace for “having the functionality to rotate screen from portrait mode to landscape mode in their app”. As absurd as this might sound, Rotatable Technologies asked $75,000 […]
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