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What's Next ... Robot Rockstars?
Artificial Intelligence has already been used to compose various pieces of music, but they're not replacing real "stars" anytime soon. A New Zealand musician, Nigel Stanford, released a video with an imagined collaboration between himself and a team of crane-armed robots. He spent about a month programming the robots. Check it out. DailyDot via
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - December 3rd, 2017
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: The Seven Powers of Gratitude. (LeadershipFreak) The Top 18 Destinations for 2018. (ThePointsGuy) Lab-Grown "Clean Meat" is Almost Here. Will You Eat It? (BigThink) The White House Wants to Ban Cellphones, Citing Security Risk. (TechCrunch) The 12
A Look at What Makes a Top Tech Company a "Top Tech" Company
The Top 20 Tech companies are pretty easily recognized – tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Alphabet top the list. via Visual Capitalist There are a lot of commonalities between successful tech companies. Pretty much all of them attempt to leverage software to do jobs that would be too expensive, too boring, or virtually impossible
Does Money Buy Happiness?
Thanksgiving was this week. Hope you had fun. I was lucky enough to spend time with family and friends watching the Cowboys make the Los Angeles Chargers look good. My mother always used to lead the table in answering "What are you thankful for?" After the groaning subsided, we would answer. Typically, the focus was
Alternative Data Streams: Noise or Alpha
There's a paradigm shift happening in trading. Today's investors have access to data and information that would have been unheard of 10 years ago … and unfathomable 20 years ago. In the past, investors relied on information and experience from their real lives, from counterparties, and from fastidious attention to CNBC and stock tickers. However,
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 12th, 2017
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies. (HBR) The Purpose of Sleep? to Forget, Scientists Say. (CS) What is Unique Ability? (StrategicCoach) UPS Drivers Don't Turn Leftand It Saves Them 10 Million Gallons