Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 4th, 2019

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Being and Drunkenness: How to Party Like an Existentialist. (Aeon)
• When Navy Sailors & Marines Share a Ship, Karaoke Night Gets Complicated. (WSJ)
• Fewer American Women are Working Than Two Decades Ago. (Economist)
• Now Calling Balls and Strikes: Robot Umpires. (Wall Street Journal)
• The State of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Games, and Knowledge Graphs. (ZDNet)

 

Trading Links:

• This VC Firm Just Raised More Than $1 Billion to Invest in Moonshots: Term Sheet. (Fortune)
• Pentagon Puts $10B Contract on Hold After Trump Swipe at Amazon. (Politico)
• The Two Times in History Stocks Have Been this Expensive: 1929 and 2000. (Fortune)
• Stocks Plunge After Fed Cuts Rates for First Time since 2008. (CNBC)
• Opinion: This Highly Accurate Stock-Market Predictor Just Hit Its Most Bearish Level since the Internet Bubble. (MarketWatch)