♫ Scaramucci, Can You Do The Fandango? ♫ - Weekly Links - August 4th, 2017

Scaramucci was fired after a whopping 10 days as Communications Director ... In order to get the position he sold his company, waited multiple months, ended up getting divorced from his wife, missed the birth of his second kid and was reported as dead by Harvard Law's alumni directory. Not a great week for Scaramucci.

It's horrible but I think I subscribe to the Mel Brooks rule of comedy: If it happens to me, tragedy. If it happens to you, comedy. 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:

They Trashed Their Wedding Photographer over a $125 Fee, So a Jury Told Them to Pay Her $1 Million. (Washington Post) How to Not Be Evil with Dr. Phil Zimbardo. (TimFerriss) That Time Facebook's AIs Made up Their Own Secret Language Humans Didn't Understand. (MO) The Matrix is Reportedly Getting a Reboot. (TheVerge) DARPA is Funding Projects that Will Try to Open up AI's Black Boxes.(TechReview) The World's First 1000-Core Processor Was Just Created. (Futurism) A.I.: the next U.S.-China Arms Race? (Scout) How to Put AI to Work. (DataScienceCentral) Escape to Another World. (TheEconomist1843) Leaked Travel Advice for Spooks from the CIA. (TheEconomist) On Creating a Sense of Purpose. (New York Times) New Findings Show How Our Brains 'Align' When We Communicate.(ScienceAlert) Creepy IPhone App Can Help Users Find Facebook Profiles of Strangers on the Street. (BGR) Physicists Have Created an Impossible State of Matter that Could Power Quantum Computers. (Quartz) Unlock Honest Feedback with this One Word. (Signal v Noise) Samuel L. Jackson Recreates Samuel L. Jackon's Entire Film Career in 11 Minutes. (Mashable) Google Translate Rolls out Neural Machine Translations in Russian, Hindi, Vietnamese. (SmallBizTrends) Five Studies that Help Explain Why Social Drinking is So Rewarding.(Digest) Alfred Hitchcock Reveals the Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense.(OpenCulture) NASA Has a Job Opening for Someone to Defend Earth from Aliens and It Pays a Six-figure Salary. (BI)

Market-Related Links

Black Swans: Risk is Endogenous to the Financial System.(SeekingAlpha) OPEC's Game-Theory Dilemma. (Bloomberg) Memo to Fed: Asset Bubbles are the New Inflation. (David Stockman) Modern Economists: The Inept Firefighters' Club. (DemocracyJournal) Crimintern: How the Kremlin Uses Russia's Criminal Networks in Europe. (ECFR) Singapore Looks to Regulate ICOs by Cracking down on Digital Tokens. (FinanceMagnates) Blockchain-based Trade Matching Engine Gets the Nod from ING.(FinExtra) Indonesia to Deport 153 Chinese for $450 Million Scam. (Yahoo) The U.S. is the Sick Man of the Developed World. (Bloomberg) Is Hungary the EU's First Rogue State? Viktor Orban and the Long March from Freedom. (NewStatesman) Democratic Ideology Unchained. (EconLog) The Future of Corruption. (TLS) Dr Copper Risk Becoming Noise, Not a Signal. (AFR) AI Lawyer Can Help You with a Thousand Different Legal Issues.(Engadget) 11 Charts that Show Marijuana Has Truly Gone Mainstream.(Washington Post) How Algorithms and Authoritarianism Created a Corporate Nightmare at United. (GlobalGuerrillas) New Tools Needed to Track Technology's Impact on Jobs, Panel Says.(New York Times) Of Robots and Men. (Medium) Uber, Lifting Financial Veil, Says Sales Growth Outpaces Losses.(Bloomberg) SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World. (Summary)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard