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Nassim Taleb says we will have soon another crisis that will make the current one looks like a picnic. – [VIDEO]
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Jeremy Levines StarStreet on CNN – [VIDEO]
http://www.starstreetsports.com/ –- “-It is a game of skills, and not chance.”-
Best of luck to Jeremy Levine.
StarStreet Trading Walk Through from Jeremy Levine on Vimeo.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and all the Giving Pledge billionaires, should rather do what Peter Thiel does -go investing their cash and/or (liquidated) fortune in futuristic projects. – [VIDEO]
This morning, I wrote that I disaprove Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’-s Giving Pledge operation, because I rather favor billionaires investing in young startups lead by visionaries. Well, just after the publication of that post, I stumbled on the “-Audacious Optimism”- event, which satisfies my request.
The Thiel Foundation is encouraging philanthropists to donate more money to scientific pursuits that could lead to big breakthroughs in medicine, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology, among other fields.
Note that Peter Thiel draws a distinction between “extensive” technologies, which “take things that are working and replicate them”-, and “intensive” technologies, which try to “take the things that are best in the world and make them qualitatively and dramatically better”-.
What is science? Are science and rationality the same thing? If science was something new, what sort of a new thing was science? – [VIDEO]
Michael Vassar –- From global warming to evolution :
Why you havent seen nothing yet when it comes to iOS games
When I first got an iPad, I was sold on it being the ultimate piece of science fiction technology for gaming. I think it is the most interesting new technology product I’-ve worked on in years and I really wanted to make games for it.
I don’-t think a lot of people are really thinking yet what games mean on these touch platforms, the joystick is gone, there is no proxy in between you and the screen anymore. When I first saw the photos being rotated and pinch / zoomed on the iPhone, I knew things had changed forever, and people are trying to insert something back in there when clearly the best applications are the ones where the screen is a window onto a world that you can touch. I am not a fan of virtual d-pads, pointers, or other crutches, we have an opportunity on these devices to let players hold, move, touch, and feel the game in front of them and I intend to focus on that.
People who invest in stocks should pile in on AAPL.
Alison Balsom – Italian Concertos – [VIDEO]
Technology Review publishes an uncritical article on collective forecasting used in business. – {CrowdCast}
How Bets Among Employees Can Guide a Company’-s Future –- Internal prediction markets enable colleagues to wager on the fate of crucial projects and the success of products in the pipeline. –- Technology Review
Why I am against those billionaires pledging to give away the majority of their wealth
Philanthropy has a low ROI.
They should rather put their money in a VC fund, and invest it in promising ventures, lead by visionaries.
Addendum: WSJ
If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then Sean Connery would slap her. – [VIDEO]
Vinod Khosla: The pundits are incapable of forecasting the future. – [VIDEO]
Web 2.0 Summit 2010: Vinod Khosla, “-Innovation vs. Punditry”-
Extrapolating the Past vs Inventing the Future: