Pompeo Pontone

How Safe Is Your Password?

The best practices for creating secure passwords are: A password should be 16 characters or more; our password-related research has found that 45 percent of Americans use‧‧‧

01/10/2023 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

Quantum computing impact on encryption systems

One of the most important quantum computing algorithms, known as Shor’s algorithm, would allow a large-scale quantum computer to quickly break essentially all of the encryption systems‧‧‧

01/10/2023 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

The VIX under scrutiny of Machine Learning

For those interested in machine learning applications to financial markets, I strongly recommend this interesting paper discussing several approaches to replicate the VIX index as well as‧‧‧

24/03/2021 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → Investment & Finance → | Read the article

Optimal Trading Without Optimal Control

In this brilliant paper, the authors present a framework to perform optimal trading, taking into account market microstructure and a long-term trading schedule without the use of‧‧‧

24/03/2021 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → Investment & Finance → | Read the article

A new type of monopoly is emerging in our Tech era

Quoting a recent article by Owen Williams: “Apple’s control over its app ecosystem is a new type of monopoly that’s hard to understand for lawmakers, and difficult‧‧‧

06/07/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

Decision Trees in Data Science

Decision trees (DTs) are among the most versatile class of machine learning algorithm. Decision Trees are a non-parametric supervised learning method used for classification and regression. The goal is to create‧‧‧

16/05/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

COVID-19 and Data Science

Data Scientists know how crucial is to master data set and data structures in order to perform any required analysis. There is no difference in dealing with‧‧‧

29/03/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

Mind-reading technology: The security and privacy threats ahead

“We already know it’s annoying to have a user name and password hacked, and worrying when it’s your bank account details that are stolen. But BCIs (Brain‧‧‧

25/02/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

Reliable Distributed Clustering with Redundant Data Assignment

Clustering is one of the most basic unsupervised learning tools developed to infer informative patterns in data. In this paper, Venkata Gandikota†, Arya Mazumdar†, and Ankit Singh‧‧‧

22/02/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article

Pompeo Pontone, MSc on LinkedIn: There is no such thing as objective reality!

As already predicted by Eugene Wigner’s thought experiment based on the Law of Quantum Mechanics, there is no such thing as objective reality. Massimiliano Proietti at Heriot-Watt‧‧‧

09/02/2020 | Posted in: Computer Science - Data Science & Technology → | Read the article