Ten from the weekend 08/21: A few interesting reads that I came across

Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. E-comm Q2 comes at 14.5%, there are nuances to the denominator, will comment more separately: https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.pdf

2. Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends: https://stratechery.com/2022/instagram-tiktok-and-the-three-trends/

3. Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/

4. Shopify launches new Collabs platform to connect sellers with influencers: https://www-modernretail-co.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.modernretail.co/platforms/shopify-launches-new-collabs-platform-to-connect-sellers-with-influencers/amp/

5. Debit’s Transformation Accelerates: (BNP, CC debt): https://content.pulsenetwork.com/dis/2021-debit-issuer-study-white-paper

6. What are Diffusion Models? https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-07-11-diffusion-models/

7. Open-source DALL-E “Open Diffusion” is now available on a website: https://mixed-news.com/en/open-source-rival-for-openais-dall-e-runs-on-your-graphics-card/

8. Automated reasoning at Amazon: a conversation: https://www.amazon.science/blog/automated-reasoning-at-federated-logic-conference-floc

9. https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/the-case-for-american-shipbuilding

10. Inside the crash of three arrows capital (crypto): https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/three-arrows-capital-kyle-davies-su-zhu-crash.html

An interactive article explaining how logistic regression works: https://mlu-explain.github.io/logistic-regression/