Stay Away From Negative People ... Weekly Reading Links - March 9th, 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:

The No. 1 TED Talk of All Time Teaches a Critical Lesson in Intelligence (That We Often Forget). (Inc) Thirteen Lessons of Innovation to Guide You through 2018.(FastCompany) Apple Confirms It Runs ICloud on Google's Cloud, and You Shouldn't Be Surprised. (TheNextWeb) Elementary : a Theory of Why Some Things Do Not Exist. (TLS) America's Secret Ice Base Won't Stay Frozen Forever. (Wired) Barbara Streisand's Cloned Dog Colony is a Science Fiction Nightmare. (Inverse) Does a USB Drive Get Heavier as You Store More Files on It? (Sciencefocus) What is Malware? Everything You Need to Know about Viruses, Trojans and Malicious Software. (ZDNet) Trump Hides under Desk after Diet Coke Can Opens Loudly.(NewYorker - Satire) Bye Bye Black Box: Researchers Teach AI to Explain Itself.(TheNextWeb) A Video that Explains the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.(BoingBoing) The Feds May Be Able to Spy on Your IPhone (But You Can Easily Stop Them). (NYMag) Bill Gates: Cryptocurrencies Have 'Caused Deaths in a Fairly Direct Way'. (TheGuardian) This STD is Reportedly the Top Reason People Can't Get on the Bachelor'. (Huffington Post) Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology. (TheVerge) Inside the OED: Can the World's Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet? (TheGuardian) The Best Books on Military Strategy. (FiveBooks) Here's What You Need to Know about Malware and Phishing. (Quartz) Can IPhones Get Viruses? How to Detect & Remove Viruses from Your IPhone. (iPhoneLife) The Best VPN Services: Our 10 Favorite Vendors for Protecting Your Privacy. (ZDNet)

Market-Related Links

The Rise of Quants in Trading and Financial Markets. (StockTwits) Bitcoin is Falling out of Favor on the Dark Web. (The Atlantic) What's next for Blockchain? (TheFinanser) Here's Why Predicting the Weather is Still So Difficult. (Observer) Podcast: Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke (Wes). (AlphaArchitect) Apple Continues to Dominate the Smartphone Profit Pool. (Forbes) How Modern Infrastructure and Machine Intelligence Will Disrupt the Industry. (Forbes) Stanford is Using Machine Learning on Satellite Images to Predict Poverty. (AnalyticsVidhya) A Model for S&P 500 Bottoms (Are We There Yet?). (Stockcharts) Bloomberg Narrows Down Potential Locations for Apple's Upcoming U.S. Campus. (MacRumors) The Amazon Headquarters Search Mystery Has Been Solved! or Has It? (ChicagoTribune) Spotify Files for Its Unusual IPO. (Axios) Malta: an Island of Secrets and Lies. (NewStatesman) Xi Jinping Amends China's Constitution. (Jeromecohen) An AI Just Beat Top Lawyers at Their Own Game. (Mashable) Crypto/Blockchain Safe Harbor. (Continuations) When Malls Saved the Suburbs from Despair. (The Atlantic) Welfare Versus GDP: What Makes People Better Off. (IMF) The Stock Market Cannot Tell Us Which Economic Policies are Best.(ValueWalk) Blockchain to Blockchains: Broad Adoption and Integration Enter the Realm of the Possible Tech Trends 2018. (Deloitte)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard