Since we're technically still in summer, I thought I'd pass along this fashion insight …

 

 

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week.

Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits.

Let me know if you read something I'd like … Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading.

Thanks.

Lighter Links:

Texas Flood Disaster: Harvey Has Unloaded 9 Trillion Gallons of Water.(Washington Post)

How Mushrooms Became Magic. (The Atlantic)

Harvard Thinks It's Found the Next Einstein and She's 23. (SecondNexus)

4 TED Talks on How Time Affects You. (TED)

INFOGRAPHIC: Data Breaches, Vulnerabilities Spike in First Half of 2017.(Lastwatchdog)

Can Computers Make Us Better Thinkers? (Insight)

Watson is Just the Beginning. (Insight)

Hidden Features and Third Party Programs that Make Spotify Work for You.(MotherBoard)

The Power of Framing: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It.(TheGuardian)

The Future of Deep Learning. (Keras)

The Nine Essentials of Story Design Every Storyteller Must Master.(Medium)

The Fading Art of Philosophy. (Thecoffeelicious)

No One Should Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack. (Scientific American)

Philippe De Montebello on How the Metropolitan Museum of Art Can Reclaim Its Glory. (Artnet)

How Artificial Intelligence Conquered Democracy. (The Conversation)

15 Amazing Infographics and Other Visual Tutorials. (DataScienceCentral)

Scientists Discover New State of Matter Called Time Crystals'. (WSJ)

The Key is Not to Prioritize Your Schedule, but to Schedule Your Priorities. -Stephen Covey. (MichaelHyatt)

The Voice of Machine Learning Starts and Ends with Humans. (Embedded-computing)

The AI Hierarchy of Needs. (HackerNoon)

Market-Related Links

Big Data in Capital Markets. (Luxoft)

The Logic of Risk Taking. (Medium)

Yellen Warns against Erasing Regulations Made after Financial Crisis. (NYT)

Half-Time Report on PwC's Vision for Asset Management. (AllaboutAlpha)

New Breed of Super Quants at NYU Prep for Wall Street. (Bloomberg)

Powerball Winner Already Broke One Rule. What Else Not to Do. (CNBC)

Banks May Soon Use Our Facebook Friends to Assess Our Creditworthiness. Should We Worry? (Insight)

Why the Fed Raised Rates for the Third Time. (NYTimes)

61 Books Nassim Taleb Recommends You Read in His Own Words.(Medium)

What Do Economists Actually Know? (Medium)

Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta? (The Atlantic)

New Force on Wall Street: the Family Office'. (WSJ)

These Economic 'Black Swans' Could Rock Global Markets. (BI)

10,000 AI Startups Need to Learn these Lessons. (VentureBeat)

Why Fragmentation is the Solution, Not the Problem. (CharlesHughSmith)

We'll Have Twice as Many Super-Rich People in 10 Years. (CNW)

Russell 2000: False Breakout May Spell Trouble for Small Caps.(SeeItMarket)

For Big Banks, Regulation is the Mother of GPU Invention. (QuantNews)

Upgrading Our Infrastructure: Targeting Repairs for Locks, Dams and Bridges. (The Conversation)

AI Trader? Tech Vet Launches Hedge Fund Run by Artificial Intelligence.(QuantNews)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard