Capitalogix

I've Been Going to the Gym Again ...

I've been going to the gym again ... and a lot of what I see there doesn't look like exercise. 

On the other hand, you have guys like this, doing 20 different types of push-ups: 

 

 

I used to do that.

But, I can do anything I commit to do.

So, I can do that.

Time to do that.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading - February 26th, 2017

I think frameworks are an important tool.  Here's one that seems to be in use a lot recently.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Future of Work Manifesto. (TechCrunch)
• The Art and Science of Learning Anything Faster. (FourHourWorkWeek)
• The Five Best Super Bowl Commercials. (Washington Post)
• How to Find out If Your IPhone 7 Has Faster or Slower LTE Modem. (iPhoneHacks)
• Google Flights Will Now Tell You When Fares Will Increase, Help You Find Cheaper Tickets. (TechCrunch)

Trading Links:

• UBS Wealth Chief on Fintech: 'We are beyond Fighting'. (BusinessInsider)
• Uber Hires NASA Veteran to Help It Figure out Flying Cars. (TheVerge)
• Trump's Bonfire of Banking Rules Could Burn Us All. (Flipboard)
• The Art of a China Deal. (Chinafile)
• Microsoft: Tech Companies Aren’t Getting into Financial Services to Make Friends with Banks. (CBInsights)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading - February 18th, 2016

The Great Canadian Wall is up in the north.  Looks like it will hold till spring.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Genomics Intelligence Revolution. (TechCrunch)
• Generation Adderall. (New York Times)
• Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything. (HBR)
• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person. (NYT)
• The 5 Revolutionary Technologies that Will Dominate 2017. (Salesforce)

Trading Links:

• The Immigration Ban is a Headfake, and We’re Falling For It. (Medium)
• Biden at Davos: Russia is Greatest Threat to Democracy. (USAToday)
• Volatility at Lowest Level for over a Year, Says S&P Dow Jones. (HedgeWeek)
• Jeff Bezos Just Passed Warren Buffett to Become the Third Richest Person in the World. (CNW)
• Ray Kurzweil: the World Isn’t Getting Worse. (GeekWire)

Facts or Fiction: How Faithful is Your Favorite "True" Movie's Story?

Recently, there's been a lot of talk about fake news and fact-checking the contents of the news and what public figure say.  However, I haven't heard much about measuring the veracity of movies.

This site was kind of interesting.

It purports to rank the relative veracity of various movies. 

For example, "Selma" is impressively accurate  (as is "The Big Short") ... "The Imitation Game"?  Not so much.

 

via Information is Beautiful

This interactive breakdown lets you be as "pedantic" as you want -- letting the "truth" be relatively flexible, or seating the truth-scale at "only what objectively happened".

So, where does your favorite film fall?

Pretty interesting.

NFL - Bad Lip Reading

Hope you have enjoyed Super Bowl weekend so far.

Here is an oldy, but goodie.

It is kind of the opposite of one of those old Kung Fu movies where the dubbed words you hear aren't synched with the mouth movement. 

Here it looks like they are saying what you hear ... it's just that someone changed the words.  You could call it "So THAT'S what they were saying ..."

 This video works for the same reason trading often doesn't ... Humans are great at finding patterns (even when there isn't really a pattern to find).

Regardless, this was fun (and it's gotten almost 70 million views on YouTube).

 

 

Recently, they also did one with clips from Trump's Inauguration.  

Pretty funny. 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading - January 29th, 2017

With the explosion of Alternative Facts and Fake News ... It's important to remember to verify what you read. 

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Why Each Side of the Partisan Divide Thinks the Other is Living in an Alternate Reality. (The Conversation)
• Check out this Automated Resume Builder (It Could Help Former President Obama Get a Job). (Inc)
• Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business. (Burrus)
• 25 CEO’s List 20 Things that Keep Them up at Night. (LeadershipFreak)
• Japanese Toilet Industry Agrees to Standardize Complex Bidet Controls. (TheVerge)

 

 

Trading Links:

• What Does the World Expect of a Trump Presidency? (The Conversation)
• The SEC's Reaction to High Frequency Trading. (QuantNews)
• US Jobless Claims down to 1970S Levels at 234,000 - about as Good as It Gets. (Forbes)
• SpaceX’s Leaked Finances Show Elon Musk is Betting Big on Satellite Internet. (Quartz)
• Fed's Yellen Says She's Upbeat about Short-term Economic Outlook. (Reuters)

Quick, Draw!

Our non-human overlords haven't taken over yet.

However, A.I. is getting smarter faster.

Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles?

Google's Quick, Draw! will try and guess what you're drawing.

It did pretty well with mine, and I did not inherit my dad's artistic skills. 

Try it by clicking below!

 

 

Kind of cool!

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading - January 20th, 2017

With technology becoming more ubiquitous ... perhaps Tweeting shouldn't be ... 

  

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Ringling Bros. Circus to Close after 146 Years. (Washington Post)
• Why Your Brain Makes New Year's Resolutions Impossible to Keep. (Popular Science)
• When the Picky Eater is a Grown-Up. (New York Times)
• Your Dog Knows Exactly What You’re Saying. (National Geographic)
• Nestle Claims a Scientific Breakthrough and Chocolate Will Never Be the Same Again. (Inc)

Trading Links:

• The End of Cloud Computing. (A16z)
• Rethinking Global Finance. (Wired)
• All World Maps Lie. So Which One Should We Use? (FastCoD)
• Why Rich People Set up Trust Funds for Their Pets. (Flipboard)
• Apple Sells Nearly 400 IPhones Per Minute, and Other Insane Stats. (Insider)

The Internet in 1973

Here's a map of the entire "Internet" in 1973:

 

Reddit via @WorkerGnome.

Wonder what that map would look like today?

Oftentimes, a small breakthrough has awesome and immense consequences.

Onwards!

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading -- December 31st, 2016

Any bold predictions for 2017?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye recently.

Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Top 10 TED Talks of 2016. (YouTube)
• The Year in Pictures 2016. (Nyti)
• The 12 Key Science Moments of 2016. (TheGuardian)
• How I Process a Massive Amount Of Content. (Medium)
• The Top Jerry Jones Quotes of 2016: Ugly Babies, Jumping off Buildings and Circumcising Mosquitos. (SportsDay)

 

Trading Links:

• Who Benefits from Market Speed Bumps? The Exchanges. (New York Times)
• Where are They Now? the 12 Members of the 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average. (BizInsider)
• It's So Hard to Get Cash in India that Some People are Ordering It Online. (Money)
• Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High. (WSJ)
• Contrarian Views for 2017, Seven Dos and Don’ts for Your Portfolio, and Trump's Market Mirage (Globe and Mail)