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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Hope your week went smoother than the Obamacare launch.

   

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• Why Hiring ‘B’ Players Kills Companies. (VentureBeat)
• Artificial Intelligence Evolves to Another Level. New Stuff from Google & Ray Kurzweil (MIT)
• Improving Predictions: How to Make Better Forecasts. (David Brook)
• A Data Scientist's Real Job: Storytelling. (Harvard Business Review)
• What If Superpowers Were Real? A series of TED lessons explore the science of flight, super speed, invisibility and more. (TED)

 

Trading Links:

• Central Banks Risk Clash of Titans. (Wall Street Journal)
• Top 40 Buffett-isms: Inspiration to Become a Better Investor. (Forbes)
• High Speed Trading Puts Investors On Losing End. (Money)
• A Generational Low in Managed Futures? (AttainCapital)
• Are There More Hedge Funds in the U.S. than Taco Bells? Does that imply fewer winners as more roll the dice? (FiscalTimes)

 

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Finally, a way to use your Desktop like an iPad

Have you seen kids poking and swiping at restaurant menus or magazines ... it is because they expect them to work like an iPad.

Well now you can access your desktop computer on your iPad, like an iPad, even when you are using a native Windows (or Mac) application.  This is cooler than it sounds.

Parallels Access ‘applifies’ your Windows and Mac applications, letting you remotely access and experience them as if they were made for iPad.  Tap, swipe, pinch and scroll any Mac or PC software application – even if they were not optimized for the iPad.

This is a very useful app that helps you get more done on-the-go.

Here is a video showing how it works.

 

 

My experience with it has been very positive.  Terrific on the road ... but I've even used it from the bedroom to finish up a little work that would have distracted me otherwise.

Add a comment below to enter a drawing for a free one-year subscription to Parallels Access.

 

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What Apple's iPad Has Done to the Personal Computer Market

Apple released their new high-end iPad this week ... PC-makers weeped.

Apple has effectively taken the air out of the tires of the personal computer market with the iPad.

Here is a jaw-dropper of a chart.

 

via Horace Dediu at Asymco.

Talk about Creative Destruction ...

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Reminds me of Sergeant Schultz from "Hogan's Heroes" ... but I know nothing.

 

 
 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 25 Cutting Edge Technologies That Will Change the World. (List25)
• Predicting the Future: TED Radio Podcast. (NPR)
• It Takes Purpose to Become a Billionaire. (Harvard Business Review)
• Is Little Data The Next Big Data? (Linkedin)
• CrossFit Nation - Does America's Rapid Adoption of This Type of Sporting Say Something About Its People? (TheWeeklings)

 

Trading Links:

• Wall Street Has Changed Since the Crisis ... But Has Washington? (Slate)
• Why We Didn’t Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis. (Harvard Business Review)
• 100 Startling Facts About the Economy.  (Motley Fool)
• The Youngest Billionaires on the Forbes 400 – 20 Under 45. (Forbes)
• Trading Bots Create Extreme Events Faster Than Humans Can React. Algorithms now show collective behavior that we do not control. (ArsTechnica)