The state of AI in 2019
Confetti
Never really thought about confetti and how its produced. Who knew there were confetti farms, well I know there’s at least one, near Pershore, Worcestershire. They open their fields to the public a few days a year when they are in full bloom, & they look stunning. This is the last weekend you can see…
BIG moves
Gold $GLD has been making some big moves recently, its broken out of a 5 year base, if the breakout holds some bigger moves are on the horizon. In todays world we can now easily trade crypto currencies, these can see massive moves very quickly, in either direction. If you can trade crypto successfully you…
Jesse Livermore
Jesse Livermore is considered to be one of the greatest traders that ever lived, which might explain why Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is one of my favorite books & considered a must read for all traders. Jesse keeps things simple, the key to most successes in life: “Do not anticipate and move without market…
Brews & canoes
Just had a great weekend as per the title of the post you probably get the jist. Friday night we went to Saddlers Brew House in Lye, West Midlands. Great beers, amazing food & a secret room. Then on Saturday we paddled down the river Severn in kayaks. We used hireacanoe.com, which basically do all…
Airports are becoming the new mall
For the first time last year, Estée Lauder Co. generated more revenue at airports globally than at U.S. department stores, which for decades had been beauty companies’ biggest sales driver. https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-the-mall-shoppers-are-buying-gucci-at-airports-11560772801
Peaky
Saddlers brewhouse, the home of the peaky blinder
HealthTech & 97%
97%, thats the accuracy rate for Alexa detecting agonal breathing from up to 20ft away. Researchers at the University of Washington trained Alexa using machine learning to detect the gasping breathing sound thats a tell tale sign someone might be suffering cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is the biggest cause of natural deaths, detection time is…
Indicate or innovate
Indicating, or more to the point not indicating when driving a car really winds me up, and more & more, indicating is getting less & less. Driving to the office today, the three cars in front of me all pulled off the dual carriageway, none of them indicated, despite travelling at around 60 – 70…
Libra
What we know about Facebook’s stablecoin: It will be governed by the Libra association’s 28 founding members, Libra.org Voting rights are capped for any one Founding Member to avoid concentration of power It is due to launch sometime in 2020, by that time Facebook hopes to have 100 founding members in the Libra association (up…
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