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Can computing clean up its act?

September 4, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/16/can-computing-clean-up-its-act

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For several decades one happy side-effect of Moore’s Law was that, as circuitry shrank, it also became more frugal. That effect is known as Dennard scaling, after Robert Dennard, a scientist then working at ibm who wrote a paper on the subject in 1974. During the mid-2000s, though, the tricky physics of ultra-tiny components meant that relationship began to break down. Computers are still becoming more efficient as their components shrink, but the rate at which they are doing so has slowed sharply.
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Interview with Bob Young

June 20, 2023

http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_bob_young/ QT:{{”

CM: In January 1998 I attended a talk you gave to the Toronto Linux user group where you noted how you hoped Red Hat would become the Heinz ketchup of Linux distributions. What did you mean by that? BY: If you give away your product it is hard to claim a lot of IP or product differentiation. In the same way that anyone can make ketchup out of freely available ingredients (tomatoes, vinegar, salt and spices) without bending a copyright rule, anyone can build a Linux distribution (Linux kernel, drivers, utilities, and applications (Apache, DNS, Postgres, etc)). So both products are what are defined in business as “commodity” products.
Heinz has 60% of the ketchup business because they have built a brand synonymous with quality and consistency. Red Hat is doing very well by this standard.
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Don’t overinsure

May 21, 2023

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Why would any well-informed person buy life insurance instead of investing the premiums directly with the expectation of earning more than a 2.5% return?
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/life-insurance-premiums-are-a-wealth-killer-use-that-money-to-buy-stocks-9140573c

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“If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anyone”

May 13, 2023

https://hbr.org/2017/03/if-you-understand-how-the-brain-works-you-can-reach-anyone

Beard, Alison. (2017). If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anybody. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr 2017, Vol. 95 Issue 2, p 60‐62.

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People who express certain genes in the dopamine system tend to be curious, creative, spontaneous, energetic, and mentally flexible. They are risk-takers and seek novelty. People who have high serotonin activity (or who take SSRI antidepressants) are more sociable, more eager to belong. They’re quite traditional in their values and less inclined toward exploration. People expressive of the testosterone system are tough-minded, direct, decisive, skeptical, and assertive. They tend to be good at what we called rule-based systems—engineering, computers, mechanics, math, and music. And people who are expressive of the estrogen/oxytocin system tend to be intuitive, imaginative, trusting, empathetic, and contextual long-term thinkers. They are sensitive to people’s feelings, too, and typically have good verbal and social skills.
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How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist

May 12, 2023

https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

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As a way of presenting knowledge, llms promise to take both the practical and personal side of books further, in some cases abolishing them altogether. An obvious application of the technology is to turn bodies of knowledge into subject matter for chatbots. Rather than reading a corpus of text, you will question an entity trained on it and get responses based on what the text says. Why turn pages when you can interrogate a work as a whole?
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Cholesterol and dementia | Alzheimer’s Society

May 12, 2023

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-and-prevention/cholesterol-and-dementia

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A meta-analysis is a study that looks at lots of previous studies and analyses all of the data together to increase the number of people studied and to look at the information in a consistent way. A meta-analysis looking at observational studies investigating statins and the risk of dementia looked at data from 11 studies, involving over 23,000 participants, who had been taking statins for between 3 and nearly 25 years on average. When all of the data was analysed together, the researchers found that those people taking statins had a 29 per cent reduced risk of developing dementia.
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35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now – The New York Times

May 7, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html?name=styln-artificial-intelligence®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=undefined

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Organize a messy computer desktop.
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I basically just gave ChatGPT a directory, a list of all my folder names, and the names of all my files.
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Write a wedding speech.
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“A few hours before, I said, ‘Can GPT-3 write this officiant speech?’” he recalled. “The first version was generic, full of platitudes. Then I steered it.”
Adam is a great lover of plants
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Write Excel formulas.

Create new proteins in minutes.

Play with language.
….It’s particularly helpful for bizarre acronyms, like this: Please tell me the words I could use to create the acronym ‘BIBERE’ to identify an organization dedicated to getting together after work to hit the bar — without saying we’re going to the bar in a workplace email.
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Interest Rate Parity (IRP) Definition, Formula, and Example

April 30, 2023

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/interestrateparity.asp#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20the%20U.S.%20dollar,discount%20versus%20the%20U.S.%20dollar.

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Forward Exchange Rate

An understanding of forward rates is fundamental to IRP, especially as it pertains to arbitrage. Forward exchange rates for currencies are exchange rates at a future point in time, as opposed to spot exchange rates, which are current rates. Forward rates are available from banks and currency dealers for periods ranging from less than a week to as far out as five years and more. As with spot currency quotations, forwards are quoted with a bid-ask spread.

The difference between the forward rate and spot rate is known as swap points. If this difference (forward rate minus spot rate) is positive, it is known as a forward premium; a negative difference is termed a forward discount.

A currency with lower interest rates will trade at a forward premium in relation to a currency with a higher interest rate. For example, the U.S. dollar typically trades at a forward premium against the Canadian dollar. Conversely, the Canadian dollar trades at a forward discount versus the U.S. dollar.
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence (Digest Summary)

January 24, 2023

https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/cfa-digest/2005/05/the-capital-asset-pricing-model-theory-and-evidence-digest-summary QT:{{”
The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) builds on the Markowitz mean–variance-efficiency model in which risk-averse investors with a one-period horizon care only about expected returns and the variance of returns (risk). These investors choose only efficient portfolios with minimum variance, given expected return, and maximum expected return, given variance. Expected returns and variance plot a parabola, and points above its global minimum identify a mean–variance-efficient frontier of risky assets.
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The Marvels—And Mistakes—Of Supertall Skyscrapers – The Atlantic

January 1, 2023

Great article. Thought the very intentional “wind shaping” was fascinating (e.g. the “blow through” floors at 432 Park). Maybe we’ll see fins next.

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This didn’t seem unrelated to a lawsuit that 432 Park’s condo board has filed against the building’s developer. The plaintiffs claim that the building is riddled with more than 1,500 defects that have led to leaks, cracks, electrical explosions, and elevator shutdowns that trapped people for hours—as well as “horrible and obtrusive noise and vibrations,” including clicks, creaks, and a trash chute that thunders “like a bomb.”
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diffusing the suction-filled whirlpools that sway a building as wind whips around its sides. You could notch the corners, like on Taipei 101, which resembles a towering stack of gifts. You could twist the building, like the Twizzler-esque Shanghai Tower. You could taper it to look like the tip of a paintbrush, like the Lakhta Center, or cut out sections to let wind blow through it, like the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is nicknamed “The Bottle Opener.” 432 Park’s designers decided to make it more porous: Every 12 stories, there are two “blow through” floors with cutouts for windows, but no glass. “}}

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/supertall-mega-skyscraper-building-nyc/672228

steinway tower
https://www.dropbox.com/s/soza3usm060fzya/steinway-tower-view.docx?dl=0

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