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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 24th, 2019

Hope you are ready for the Thanksgiving holidays.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020: the Good, the Obvious, the Renamed & the Missing. (Forbes)
• New Cardiology A.I. Knows If You'll Die Soon. Doctors Can't Explain How It Works. (DigitalTrends)
• The Science is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep. (Wired)
• How to Get Die-Hard Meat Eaters to Try Impossible Burgers: Trick Them. (Wall Street Journal)
• Japan's Cheapest Hotel Will Charge You Just $1 Per Night If You Don't Care About Privacy. (OddityCentral)

 

Trading Links:

• The USPTO Wants to Know If Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content It Creates. (TheVerge)
• 100 of the World's Most Promising Start-ups to Watch in 2019. (CNBC)
• Bezos Interested in Seahawks? Maybe. NFL Interested in Bezos? Definitely. (WashingtonPost)
• The American Dream is Alive in China. (Palladium)
• How Jim Simons Became the Most Successful Investor of All Time. (Economist)

Sea-Thru Sea

An engineer and oceanographer, Derya Akkaynak, created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images - meaning it takes away the haze & tint that come with most underwater photos. It doesn't require a color chart either (though it does need distance information it gathers through numerous photographs from different angles). 

Check it out. 

 

via ScientificAmerican 

From the abstract: 

The Sea-thru method estimates backscatter using the dark pixels and their known range information. Then, it uses an estimate of the spatially varying illuminant to obtain the range-dependent attenuation coefficient. Using more than 1,100 images from two optically different water bodies, which we make available, we show that our method with the revised model outperforms those using the atmospheric model. Consistent removal of water will open up large underwater datasets to powerful computer vision and machine learning algorithms, creating exciting opportunities for the future of underwater exploration and conservation.

Essentially, the algorithm goes through every pixel and color balances the image based on collected data on distance/color degradation.

As with most algorithms of this type - the more data we feed it, the better it gets. Sea-thru already has great applications for furthering ocean-based research, but the follow-up question is can this algorithm be extrapolated outward to deal with other atmospheric conditions outside of water - smog, etc. 

What other uses can you imagine?  It is not hard to imagine how this could be applied to market data either ... Interesting stuff! 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 17th, 2019

The holiday season is coming fast.

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• What's New in Gartner's Hype Cycle for AI, 2019. (Forbes)
• What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Being Human. (NPR)
• Why It's Time to Take Electrified Medicine Seriously. (Time)
• What's CRISPR Doing in Our Food? (Gastropod)
• The Problem that Google Solved with Quantum Supremacy.(DataScienceCentral)

 

Trading Links:

• Why Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio Loves Silicon Valley.(Finance)
• Tokenized Venture Capital. (DailyFintech)
• Betting on Bitcoin Prices May Soon Be Deemed Illegal Gambling. (Economist)
• Map: The Richest Person in Each U.S. State. (Money)
• Here's What Quantum Supremacy Does and Doesn't Mean for Computing. (TechReview)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 10th, 2019

Here's a quick reminder about Veterans Day.

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

Lighter Links:

• Why Futurists are (Almost) Always Wrong. (ZDNet)
• AI Rising: How Companies, Police and the Public are Already Grappling with Artificial Intelligence. (GeekWire)
• Macallan Bottle Sells for $1.9 Million, Breaks Whisky World Record Again. (Forbes)
• Suzy Batiz's Empire of Odor. (NewYorker)
• The 35 Best CEOs in the World, According to Harvard Business Review. (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• Lilium is One Step Closer to Making Its Flying Car a Reality. (FastCompany)
• Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won't Take off for Another Decade. (News)
• Singapore is the World's Most Competitive Economy. What Can Others Learn? (WEForum)
• The Countries with the Most Millionaires. (Statista)
• The Unicorn Bubble is Bursting. (SeekingAlpha)

 

 

A Roller Coaster of Emotions

I recently saw this video during a presentation.

It's hilarious – and a great reminder that it doesn't matter how simple something is (if the stakes are high enough) and the environment is distracting enough. 

That's where automation comes in. Enjoy. 

 

Eliminating fear and greed are great steps to take in the pursuit of eliminating discretionary mistakes.

Think about how many other places this video explains the "why" behind disappointing results.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - October 27th, 2019

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Jeff Bezos: This is the 'Smartest Thing We Ever Did' At Amazon. (CNBC)
• The Next Big Thing in AI/ML Is. (DataScienceCentral)
• The Pope's First Wearable is a $110 Rosary that Tracks Your Prayers. (FastCompany)
• Science Says You Only Need to Work out for 13 Minutes to Make a Difference. (Parents)
• The 'Blob': Paris Zoo Unveils Unusual Organism Which Can Heal Itself and Has 720 Sexes. (CNN)

 

Trading Links:

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Capitalism as We Know It as Dead. (TheVerge)
• Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough that Could Change Computing. (New York Times)
• Tesla Turns a Profit and Builds a Chinese Factory Very Fast. (Wired)
• There Are Now 11 Blockchain Unicorns in the World, with over $1B Valuation, Including Binance, Ripple, and Coinbase. (TheBlockCrypto)
• SoftBank Says It Has Now Invested $18.5 Billion in WeWork, More Than the GDP' of Bolivia, Which Has 11.5 Million People. (TechCrunch)

Happy Halloween: The Trick To Treats

Good data visualizations are few and far between. Bad data visualizations spread lies, misrepresent content, or are sometimes just plain unreadable. 

In honor of Halloween, here's an example of a fun data visualization put together by Mariona Banyeres based on FiveThirtyEight's "The Ultimate Halloween candy power ranking." Compared to simpler charts it may be harder to read, but it's interactive, it's themed, and if you hover over points, it will add extra context. Click to go to Mariona's interactive Tableau DataViz. 

Mariona Banyeres via FiveThirtyEight

 

To skip the data visualization, here are the results of FiveThirtyEight's competition. 

via FiveThirtyEight

Hope you have a Happy Halloween.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - October 20th, 2019

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Six Lessons We Can Learn from Geniuses. (BBC)
• Breaking down the 10 Need-to-know Emerging Technologies. (ZDNet)
• Understanding Heart Zone Training: All You Need to Know. (BTW)
• How Spotify's Algorithm Knows Exactly What You Want to Listen To. (OneZero)
• A.I. Musicians are a Growing Trend. What Does that Mean for the Music Industry? (DigitalTrends)

 

Trading Links:

• Jeff Bezos's Master Plan. (The Atlantic)
• "Demystifying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Corporation". (Forbes)
• Three Big Things: the Most Important Forces Shaping the World.(CollaborativeFund)
• Goldman Sachs: the Economic Run is Not over and the US 'Is Not Close to Recession'. (CNBC)
• Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller Forewarned Investors about the Dot-com and Housing Bubbles. Now He Tells Us Which Irrational Market Behaviors Have Him Most Worried. (BusinessInsider)

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - October 13th, 2019

 

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

Lighter Links:

• We May Be Closing in on the Discovery of Alien Life. are We Prepared? (NBCNews)
• An Ant Colony Has Memories Its Individual Members Don't Have. (TheNextWeb)
• Meat is Unhealthy, Meat is Okay: Why Science Keeps Overturning What We Thought We Knew. (Vox)
• Entries in the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards. (The Atlantic)
• Google Has Suspended Its Controversial Field Research' that Allegedly Scanned Homeless People. (TheVerge)

 

Trading Links:

• This Chart Ranks Everyone (Even You) by Their Wealth, and It's a Snapshot of Inequality. (CNBC)
• The Downside to Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade Eliminating Trading Fees. (MarketWatch)
• Job Losses in 2019 Highest in 4 Years as Manufacturing and Auto Industries Falter . (24/7 Wall St)
• Trump Administration Slaps 25% Tariff on Single Malt Scotch Whisky Imports. (Forbes)
• Former Nasdaq Boss Robert Greifeld Says We'll Remember WeWork as When the 'Unicorn' Bubble Burst. (CNBC)

 

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - September 6th, 2019

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

Lighter Links:

 

• NASA Chief Scientist Says 'We're Close' to Making Announcements about Life on Mars. (FoxNews)
• Which Drink is Best for Hydration? Hint: It Isn't Water. (CNN)
• Why Does Time Speed up When You Get Older? (Sciencefocus)
• Tinder Wants Users to Find Love in the Apocalypse. (Wired)
• If the Louvre Was on Fire, Should We Rescue the Art First or the People? (3QD)

 

Trading Links:

• Which Billionaire Will Be the World's First Trillionaire?(Entrepreneur)
• The US's Quantum Leap to Dominate AI. (FoxBusiness)
• The Future of Cryptocurrencies. (Worldview)
• 2019 Fourth-Quarter Forecast. (Stratfor)
• What a Trump Impeachment Battle Means for Financial Markets. (NYT)