And The Winner Is...! Weekly Reading Links - February 16th, 2018

 

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:

Machines that Think' Predicts the Future of Artificial Intelligence.(ScienceNews) Evolutionary Algorithms are the Living, Breathing AI of the Future.(VentureBeat) Thanks, Boston Dynamics! We are Doomed. (Quartz) An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness.(LiveScience) New DNA Nanorobots Successfully Target and Kill off Cancerous Tumors. (TechCrunch) Will Big Data Solve the Innovation Gap? (InnovateOnPurpose) Strategy to Beat the Odds. (McKinsey) The Indispensable Document for the Modern Manager. (FirstRound) North and South Korean Athletes Unify on the Ice for Women's Hockey Team. (BR) The next Hot Trend in Japan is Super Low-rise Underwear. (Metro) 4 Data Analytics Trends that Will Dominate 2018. (CIO) More Efficient Machine Learning Could Upend the AI Paradigm. (TechReview) What is AI? Everything You Need to Know about Artificial Intelligence.(ZDNet) Why Google DeepMind is Putting AI on the Psychologist's Couch. (SingularityHub) Want to Win an Argument? Science Says Stop Doing this 1 Thing.(Inc) Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories. (New York Times) Omega-3 Supplements Don't Protect against Heart Disease. (NYT) So Retro: Vintage Typewriters Reborn to Be More Human. (CNet) 26 Photos of Hong Kong's Chaotic Kowloon Walled City, Once the Most Crowded Place on Earth. (BusinessInsider) Footage from a U-2 Spy Plane, the Most Difficult Aircraft in the World to Fly, Will Take Your Breath Away. (Digg)

Market-Related Links

Vanguard's Chief Economist: Decent Probability' that Bitcoin Goes to Zero. (MarketWatch) Interoperability Might Be the Key to Ending Wall Street's Skepticism on Cryptocurrencies. (Insidermonkey) The Blockchain Era is Here but Big Biz, like Most Folk, Hasn't a Clue What to Do with It. (Moneyscience) How the Public is Being Deceived over GDP. (BigIssue) 10 Chinese Unicorns You Haven't Heard of Yet, but Will Soon Enough.(Wired) Amazon Just Got Serious about Groceries. (Fool) Jim Chanos Worse Than 99 or 07, the Craziest Juncture' in Finance.(ValueWalk) Greedy When Others are Fearful. (DailyReckoning) The Lessons of Black Monday. (Project-Syndicate) $160 Billion Hedge Fund Exec: 'We'll Probably Have a Much Bigger Shakeout Coming'. (BusinessInsider) How Can Actuarial Science Skills Be Applied in Investment Banking?(DataScienceCentral) U.S. GDP Growth is Not as Rosy as It Seems. (SeeItMarket) The 5 Biggest Losers from the 2018 Budget Deal Are. (Forbes) The Internet Rich List: Billionaires Who Made Their Money in Technology . (CNW) Why We Might Get an Infrastructure Deal. (Ritholtz) The Odds of Fixing U.S. Infrastructure Just Got Better. (Bloomberg) Multi-Alternative Funds: Alts for One and One for Alts. (AdvisorPerspectives) If the Fed is Right, Then Markets are in Trouble. (Bloomberg) Four Market-Based Indicators that May Help Investors Identify Stock Market Fragility. (AdvisorPerspectives) Billionaire Hedge Fund Legend Paul Tudor Jones Used a Quote from Shakespeare to Sound the Alarm on a Financial Bubble.(BusinessInsider)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard