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Living Longer, Healthier, And Better
Each year I get a little bit more focused on what I can be doing to get more out of my time and to increase the quantity of time left. Even with a renewed focus on health, it isn’t always easier. As my
Fueling Alpha: Data Is Powering The New World
Data is becoming a precious commodity. A staggering 90% of all the world’s data (2.5 quintillion bytes per day) has been created in the past two years alone … and its value is rapidly rising. With IoT growing from 2 billion devices in 2006
Taking Stealing To The Next Level: Baseball And Machine Learning
Baseball signals are purposely confusing to keep them a secret. Attempting to decode your opponents’ signals is part of the game. As it turns out, machine learning is pretty good at figuring them out. Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer on the Curiosity
Biohacking Gone Wild
Dave Asprey is perhaps the most well-known biohacker (he’s even referenced in Merriam-Webster’s definition of biohacker) and the founder of Bulletproof. For those that don’t know, a biohacker is someone who uses drugs and technology to make their body/mind function better. Dave and I shot a
Replicas: Deep Fakes And Voice Replication
Fake news was scary enough … but now it is going to a new level. Technology is going to make it harder to find the “signal” in the “noise”. Here is a preview of tech solutions (which already exist) that are likely to
If The Internet Goes Down Does The World Crumble?
On Tuesday, for less than an hour, early in the workday, it felt like the internet was down for many. The cause? Cloudflare went down. Cloudflare offers web services to over 16 million websites. That includes sites like HubSpot, Medium, UpWork, 9gag, Discord, Sirius XM,
How Do You Compete Against Tech Giants? Moonshots.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison It doesn’t make sense to challenge a bigger and better-funded competitor in an area where they have an asymmetric advantage. In other words, don’t compete with giants at their
Insights From CogX – On AI And Emerging Technologies
While I was at Camp Kotok, my son found CogX, an AI and emerging technologies conference held in London. They had speakers from academia, governments, and industry to give a more holistic view of AI and emerging technologies. They put all their keynotes online,
Camp Kotok: Economists In Nature
I was just in Maine at Camp Kotok, a private gathering of economists, fund managers, and other financial industry professionals. There was no cell phone service … so people had to talk with each other. Everyone went outside. And, people continued to fish, even
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Visualizing The AI Revolution
I’m surprised how often I see people who are bearish on Artificial Intelligence. Many are stuck in science fiction’s depictions – sentience, personification, etc.. Modern AI is very different from science fiction predictions, but is still exciting. (Here’s an infographic debunking 8 common
Mindset Matters
I have a picture in my conference room that says energy might be the most important thing to measure. via GapingVoid It means exactly what it sounds like – but also a lot more. We use A.I. to trade. So, measuring performance is important. But,
Microsoft: Are They Where They Thought They’d Be In 2019?
In 2009, Microsoft released a video anticipating the world in 2019. That was only 10 years ago. I recently showed you how much Social Media has changed in 10 years – so how close was Microsoft’s guess? Watch this video to find out: The answer
