Actions Have Consequences - Weekly Reading List - September 15th, 2017

I've always enjoyed the aphorism: "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Last week, I saw a different version of that ... and thought it was worth sharing.

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:

Mind-Reading AI is the Newest Defense against Cyber Attacks. (TNW) New Apple Watch May Be a Bigger Upgrade Than the iPhone. (NYPost) How to Explore a City like a Local Using Your Smartphone. (New York Times) Humans Obtain 80% of Info through Vision, and Computers are Following the Trend. (ValueWalk) The Drive for Perfect Children Gets a Little Scary. (Bloomberg) We are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance. (Nautilus) Fear and Loathing at Effective Altruism Global 2017. (SlateStarCodex) Transforming to Win Future Wars. (TheStrategyBridge) Siri vs Google Assistant vs Cortana vs Alexa: Battle of the AI Assistants.(T3) Scientists Make Step Towards Humans Guiding Robots by Telepathy. (FT) Kick Ass like a Russian Spy. (OZY) What Does the Future of Democracy Look Like? (Scout) What Science Fiction like 'Westworld' and 'Black Mirror' Tells Us about Our Near Future. (Business Insider) Edge Computing Will Blow Away the Cloud. (CIO) See a Haunting Vision of the War Machines of the Future. (Futurism) Meet the Startup That's Boot-Strapping Robot Learning with Human BrainPower. (TechReview) Scientists Find Out How Much Pee is Really in the Swimming Pool. (HuffPo) The Next-Generation Operating Model for the Digital World. (McKinsey) Microsoft's Azure Stack' for On-premises Servers Will Use Pay-as-you-go Cloud Pricing Model. (GeekWire) AI and the End of Truth. (Medium)

Market-Related Links

Ultra High Net Worth Families Are Moving Towards Riskier Asset Classes as Investment Performance Bounced-Back Last Year. (CityAM) Apple Unveils IPhone X and 8 Models as It Upgrades TV Set-Top Box.(NYT) America's Fiscal Doomsday Machine. (DailyReckoning) Swarm Fund Launches ICO for Alternative Platform. (Wealthadviser) JAMIE DIMON: Bitcoin is a Fraud That's 'Worse Than Tulip Bulbs'. (BI) Catching up on the Chinese Economy. (BaldingsWorld) The Rise and Fall of Historical World Economies. (BizInsider) A Sentimental Warning for Bulls and Bears. (HumbleStudentOfTheMarkets) Google is Acquiring Data Science Community Kaggle. (TechCrunch) Congress Just Passed a Bill that Tells NASA to Send People to Mars by 2033. (BI) Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation Will Be Obsolete by 2030.(YouTube) JPM: "We See Increasing Risk of Sell-Off in the near Term". (ZeroHedge) VIX: the Truth about a Very Misunderstood Index. (Barrons) IBM, Salesforce Join AI Forces with Watson, Einstein. (USAToday) Silicon Valley and Venture Capital Firms Bet on Ag Start-Ups. (Agriculture) Global Reflation Need Not Mean Higher Inflation in 2017. (FT) Warren Buffett Shares How to Get Rich During Turbulent Times. (Mic) The World's Biggest Gamblers. (Economist) S&P 500 Records 3rd Most Overbought Reading in 10 Years. (SeeItMarket) Why Markets are Inefficient: a Gambling Theory' of Financial Markets for Practitioners and Theorists. (SSRN)

 

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard