• Cum Laude candidate

USA House of Representatives - INVESTIGATION OF COMPETITION IN DIGITAL MARKETS :

As part of a top-to-bottom review of the market,
the Subcommittee examined the dominance of Amazon, Apple,
Facebook, and Google, and their business practices to determine
how their power affects our economy and our democracy.
...
By controlling access to markets, these giants can pick
winners and losers throughout our economy. They not only wield
tremendous power, but they also abuse it by charging exorbitant
fees, imposing oppressive contract terms, and extracting valuable
data from the people and businesses that rely on them. Second,
each platform uses its gatekeeper position to maintain its market
power. By controlling the infrastructure of the digital age, they
have surveilled other businesses to identify potential rivals, and
have ultimately bought out, copied, or cut off their competitive
threats. And, finally, these firms have abused their role as
intermediaries to further entrench and expand their dominance.

(literature survey, start Q1'22, background data science track, practical is OK, government agency embedding?). ideas:

• literature search idea: what machine learning can we use for a roadmap to defeat Big Tech? Decentralised: yes!
• Key focus: deployment and getting experimental experience is central?
• Generative adversarial network (GAN). The core idea of a GAN is based on the "indirect" training through the discriminator, another neural network that is able to tell how much an input is "realistic", which itself is also being updated dynamically {Wikipedia}. For a thesis: musicDAO context, 1 part issues keyword searches+ranks the results, the other part conducts relevance ranking.
• SearchZero idea: inspired by reinforcement learning without (much) rules, https://www.deepmind.com/blog/muzero-mastering-go-chess-shogi-and-atari-without-rules
• ClickLog {privacy,performance?}?
• front-page composition(content discovery), versus keyword search for known item.
• new thesis format: 8-10 pages IEEE 2-colum, 4 max. figures.

Background: operational permissionless plug-in system for Android. Foundational block for zero-server app store.