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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading - August 13, 2016

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Three Ways the Tech Industry (Still) Misuses Metrics. (FastCompany)
• Machine Learning Key Terms, Explained. (KDNuggets)
• We Have Become an Idiocracy. (Time)
• Combat Juggling. (Neatorama)
• How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage. (99u)

 

Trading Links:

• Beaten-Up Hedge Fund Billionaires Reminisce About the 'Golden Age'. (QuantNews)
• A Booming Wall Street Business is Based on Guesstimates, and That Could Be A Problem. (BI)
• Authorities Want to Know If Electronic Trading Giants are Cheating Small Customers. (Fortune)
• Who Owns America's Debt? (Money)
• Megacities, Not Nations, are the World’s Dominant, Enduring Social Structures. (Quartz)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Lots of crazy stories from the Olympics.  For example, an Olympic Kayaker capsized after hitting a submerged sofa.  At least they figured out how to deal with the mosquitos.

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That’s Good News for Trump. (NYT)
• Inside the Bitter Last Days of Bernie's Revolution. (Politico)
• The Pittsburgh Steelers are Practicing with Football Robots. (PopSci)
• The Craziest Predictions  From Tech BigWigs Recently. (PScience)
• Dos Equis Wants to Rank You on the "Most Interesting Person in the World" Index. (FastCo) 

 

Trading Links:

• The Big Banks are Becoming ‘Dumb Pipes’ as Fintech Takes Over. (CB Insights)
• How the World's Currencies Got Their Names. (World Economic Forum)
• Fund Managers Fear Central Banks Will Create Next ‘Lehman’ Moment. (MarketWatch)
• What Would Happen If 40 Million Americans Defaulted on Their Student Loans? (FastCo)
• Alleged Russian Spies in the U.S. Were Interested in High Frequency Trading. (QuantNews)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Someone sent me a motion-activated toilet bowl night-light for my birthday.  I guess that is an early indicator that Depends won't be far behind.

  

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Palestinian Activists at the DNC Believe Time is on Their Side. (Huffington Post)
• The Hidden Meanings behind the Set Designs of the RNC and DNC. (Wired)
• Why the Suspected Russian Hack of the DNC is Such a Game Changer. (FastCompany)
• Scientists Use Lasers to Regrow Teeth from Stem Cells. (IFLScience)
• Mark Cuban Says He’d Consider Being Vice President — for Trump or Clinton. (Re/code)

 

 

Trading Links:

• Nasdaq 100 Catching up to All-Time Highs - What Could this Mean for Market? (Stockcharts)
• AI Needs Oversight – Time to Set Standards for Autonomous Tech. (NewScientist)
• 'Pokémon GO' is the Biggest Mobile Game in History & It's about to Top Snapchat. (Forbes)
• Cadillac Bets on Virtual Dealerships. (Wall Street Journal)
• How Will Bots Make Money? Here are 7 Business Models. (VentureBeat)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

I just got back from Asia; seemed like everyone wanted to know what the presidential candidates were saying.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 8 Ways to Use the New Kauffman Index of Growth Entrepreneurship. (Kauffman)
• Facebook is Predicting the End of the Written Word. (Quartz)
• How Did Consciousness Evolve? (The Atlantic)
• This is the Only TED Talk You'll Ever Need to Watch. (Inc)
• ‘Hamilton’ Inc.: the Path to a Billion-Dollar Broadway Show. (New York Times)

 

Trading Links:

• Prime Day Shows Amazon is So Powerful It Can Make up Its Own Holiday. (Wired)
• Commodities Having a Strong 2016. (Bespoke)
• Blockchain is to Banks TCP/IP is to Telcos. (Medium)
• How the Wealthiest Americans Got Rich May Surprise You. (MarketWatch)
• Apple is Making So Much Clean Energy, It Formed a New Company to Sell It. (TheVerge)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Saw this and laughed.  The too true story of life as an entrepreneur.

via Gaping Void.

Here are some posts I saved this week.

 

Lighter Links:

• 17 Handy Tools for Entrepreneurs, Startups, and Marketers. (MarketingProfs)
• Brexit Will Not Affect 'Game of Thrones' Production. (Mashable)
• Frequent-flyer Programs are Too Complicated to Understand, the US Government Has Concluded. (Quartz)
• Why Bose’s New Wireless Headphones should Always Be in Your Hand Luggage. (TNW)
• Hillary: the New Mother Teresa? (DailyReckoning)

 

Trading Links:

 

• Goldman Sachs’ Favorite Books List – General Books on Investing. (ValueWalk)
• Warren Would Give a Middle Finger to Wall Street as Clinton's Vice-president. (TheGuardian)
• Indonesia Considers Onshore Financial Center after Tax Amnesty. (Reuters)
• The Short- and Long-Term Economic and Market Impact of a Brexit. (InstitutionalInvestor)
• Getting Serious About Trumponomics. (Apple)

The Aftermath of the UK Leaving the EU

Last week, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.  

Immediately, the British Pound tanked, and David Cameron resigned.

The drop was so bad that France overtook Britain as the 5th Largest economy.

Here is a chart from the morning after the vote.

 

via TradingEconomics.

In the aftermath, the S&P downgraded U.K. ... It will be interesting to see the long-term effects.

Will the pound bounce back? Will the British economy recover? 

 

 

 

What are your thoughts?

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

I look forward to "Orange is the new Black" ... But Trump getting elected isn't what I mean.

  

  

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Why Julian Assange Doesn’t Want Hillary Clinton to Be President. (Observer)
• Mark Zuckerberg: 'Entrepreneurship is about Creating Change, Not Just Creating Companies'. (Entrepreneur)
• Statistics is Dead – Long Live Data Science…. (DataScienceCentral)
• Elon Musk Tells You His Plan for Mars. (FoxBusiness)
• How ISIS Became the World’s Deadliest Tech Start-Up. (VanityFair)

 

Trading Links:

 

• Google Searches Suggest Many in UK Don't Understand Brexit. (Gizmodo)
• This Fascinating Map Shows How OPEC's Oil Flows around the World. (BizInsider)
• How Much More Does the Top 1% Make, by US County. (ValueWalk)
• Ag Traders Time to Shine? (Managed Futures)
• Why Uber Keeps Raising Billions. (New York Times)

Finding Dory

On Father's Day, my son took me to Finding Dory.  

Let's not dissect the story ... I appreciated spending time with my son  (but also the art and the technology used to make it).

   

 

The current state of animation is mind-blowing (not just 3D ... the textures, shading, and sense of natural movement.

The rendering math is cool.  Yes, I know that makes me a nerd.

But, they are using GPU servers to do massive computation (just like a Quant Fund).  

Watch the video, below, to see how they did it.

 

 

CNet via YouTube.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

While conspiracy theorists argue whether the NBA rigged the finals to get to get to game 7, I find this more disturbing ... it's a photo combining Hillary and Trump into a Clump.

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 12 Neglected Questions Successful Leaders Keep Asking. (LeadershipFreak)
• The 5 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read this Summer. (Inc)
• Netflix Launches Fast.com, a Dead Simple Way to Test Your Internet Speed. (Mashable)
• Your Life in Weeks. (WaitButWhy)
• The 8 Most Elite Special Forces in the World. (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• Buffett Becomes Apple’s 56th Largest Shareholder with $1 Billion Investment. (BuzzFeed)
• Apple's Latest Billion-dollar Business: Venture Capital? (Mashable)
• 22 U.S. Companies that Just Keep Getting More Profitable. (MarketWatch)
• What Current Trends Tell Us about the Future of the Hedge Fund Industry. (QuantNews)
• JPMorgan Has New Theory about What Really Caused the Flash Rally. (Bloomberg)

The Future of FinTech

FinTech is hot ... and FinTech startups are disrupting the value chain, and the industry itself, by grabbing market share, increasing customer churn, and putting pressure on margins.

I recently was at the Future of Finance conference, where I talked with the CEO of CB Insights about the changing landscape of trading and asset management.

 

 

 

via YouTube. 

At the conference, one of the sessions was about how banks are "suffering death by a thousand cuts" and being relegated to utilities as they fail to adapt to new tech trends.  Here is a graphic showing the competitive pressures FinTechs are putting on banks.

 

via CBInsights.

Likewise, according to a report by PwC released last week, 9-out-of-10 insurers fear losing meaningful business to stand-alone FinTechs.

The game is changing, and so is what you have to do in order to win.

 

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