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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)

Adam Sandler Plays a New Version of His ‘The Chanukah Song’ [Video]

It is Holiday Season again ... Wow, how time flies.

To my Jewish friends, Happy Chanukah.

And, as a 'gift' to all of you, here is a new version of "The Chanukah Song," performed by comedian Adam Sandler.  It became an instant classic, in 1994, when Sandler performed it on Saturday Night Live.

   

 

via YouTube.

 

Here is the Wikipedia post about the Chanukah Song.

Here are links to the Original Video,  Version 2, and, Version 3.  

Hope you enjoy them ... and best wishes for a happy holiday season.

 

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

It was cold in Dallas this weekend ... below freezing.

In contrast, it's officially colder than Mars in Canada

Don't stick your tongue on any flag poles. 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Clinton Campaign to Participate in the Wisconsin Recount — Plus Michigan and Pennsylvania If They Happen. (TW)
• America’s Top Spy Talks Snowden Leaks and Our Ominous Future. (Pocket)
• The Strange Psychology of Stress and Burnout. (Pocket)
• A New Program Judges If You’re a Criminal from Your Facial Features. (MotherBoard)
• 3 New, Must-Read Quotes from Tesla Motors, Inc. CEO Elon Musk. (FoxBusiness)

 

Trading Links:

• How Apple Lost China to Two Unknown Local Smartphone Makers. (Bloomberg)
• ‘A Rude Shock’: Indians Describe Life after Narendra Modi’s Currency Ban. (New York Times)
• NASA's New 'Intruder Alert' System Spots an Incoming Asteroid. (NPR)
• Is the Age of Asset Management Over? (FinanceMagnates)
• Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs. (YouTube)

My Son Is Disgusting ...

This Thanksgiving, my son Zach made a stupid bet with himself – that he could gain 10 pounds in one day.

His mom and I both tried to tell him not to do it;  but we forgot a golden rule: Never tell a Getson they can't do something. 

The image speaks for itself.

  

 

He gained over 13 pounds.

Even considering the weight normally gained on a Thanksgiving, that's "disgusticating" (worthy of a made-up word).

Hope you enjoyed your holiday too!