The Art of Undecision: Fewer Options = More Revenue Companies go out of business when they make the wrong decisions or, just as important, make too many decisions. The latter creates complexity. — MIKE MAPLES, cofounder of Motive Communications (IPO to $260 million market cap),...
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…spindly “male” apparatus of hinges and rods, set up to communicate with bulbous “female” fiberglass entities nearby. Whether anyone could actually map the quiddities of the program (or glean its reactionary gender theater) without reading the catalog essay is an open question. Wh...
…9:35:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: You should see this movie/documentary seems very one-sided and as if the makers didn't quite see the bigger picture i'm not sure the finance industry really had too much of a choice ----- Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Eps...
…y mind. It would not be until nearly fourteen years later that my viscera/understanding of his experience would occur. The year 1974 was so rough on me that for a while | thought | could actually be going insane. | wondered if | was being drugged without my knowledge. | found my...
while (relatively) moderate civilian politicians are reduced to feuding and arresting each others' children. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, A...
Global Equity Volatility Insights Bankof America Why S&P vol dispersion may be the best Merrill Lynch way to trade a bubble in Tech 06 June 2017 US Equity Derivatives Global How to detect and position for a potential Tech Bubble Our investment strategists recently warned again...
When the guns finally fell silent, I had time to give full rein to my thoughts. There were obviously fundamental questions about how the war had happened, starting with why we hadn’t known ahead of time that two neighboring states were about to attack us — despite sayeret interce...
Kasparov versus Deep Blue “The Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by humanbeings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3. A r...
…bject: Re: Importance: — High Just called...on my way to atlantic city...my nj client developer bought trump's casino there and there is a big event tonight...my tablemates are fat chris christie, Bo dietl and pitbull...| will have some stories...feels like | have not had conta...
At a Glance: Where You Will Be The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. — WILLIAM GIBSON, author of Neuromancer; coined term “cyberspace” in 1984 H.. is a sneak preview of full automation. I woke up this morning, and given that it’s Monday, I checked my e-mail...
“So we're going to do it,” insisted Bannon, with joie de guerre and manic energy, “the way they did it. Separate war room, separate lawyers, separate spokespeople. It’s keeping that fight over there so we can wage this other fight over here. Everybody gets this. Well, maybe not T...
168 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Imagine you wanted to find the center of a maze. Is there a way to speed searching the maze, so you do not have to test every branch? If you can provide a mathematical proof that there is or is not, you win the prize. Places Game While it is...
Computer scientist Stuart Russell, along with Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, and numerous others, has insisted that attention be paid to the potential dangers in creating an intelligence on the superhuman (or even the human) level—an AGI, or artificial general intellige...
…rtance: — High Average humans are probably not fully able to learn how to program etc. Fraction of people that reshape the world are at the right end of the Bell curves, so difference in variation means fewer women. We tend to be more interested in the outliers. Have people expl...
a sort of "autonomy" for the Palestinians — is an illusion at best, and the first step of an upcoming blame game at worst. It will be brutally rejected by our closest friends — not to mention by each of the potential partners for the regional agreement — and by all of them togeth...