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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - January 21st, 2018
It's day 2 of the government shutdown; but what does that actually mean? In short: "Essential" government services will still run even if employees aren't getting paid – USPS, TSA, Social Security Other "non-essential" government employees will be "furloughed" and told to stay at home. Military will be required to work, but won't be paid
Some Things Never Change ...
This week I went to Chicago to speak at my old alma mater – Kellogg. It was great to talk with professors and spend time with MBA students interested in trading and how the business of trading is changing. I plan on spending more time there to benefit research and recruiting. Unsurprisingly, deep
Algorithms are Watching: How Machines Learn
Machine Learning algorithms are everywhere. They're helping you pick out your next gift on Amazon, controlling what you find on Google, they're suggesting new music for you on Spotify, and they're doing their best to keep you on their website. When trying to explain how machines learn we tend to try and describe it in
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - January 14th, 2018
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: Tesla Model 3: the First Serious Review. (The Drive) How Religion Made a Global Comeback in 2017. (The Atlantic) New Year's Fitness Resolutions: the Smartest Way to Keep Them. (WSJ) How Kaspersky's Software Fell under Suspicion
Ultra Spiritual Wisdom on Bitcoin
Seemingly everywhere I go, someone asks me about Bitcoin. Clearly, there are speculators and day traders banking coin. I am a little surprised by how fast it captured the cultural zeitgeist. Here's a clever spoof … worth watching. AwakenWithJP via Youtube I'm sure we'll talk more about Bitcoin … but, more importantly, Blockchain (which
The Time Value of Time
In many senses time is relative. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand this quote from Einstein. "When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." It is about more than perception. Here