The Daily View: 3/18/2024

Item #1: Apparently, I am "one of the good ones," as a right-leaning Black guy – but it is offensive I think it's cool this dude works for NASA. While we're Just Noticing Patterns, a remarkable number of the people who keep asking when minorities will stop caring about race, and… https://t.co/OGNqYlXYIs — Wilfred Reilly… Continue reading The Daily View: 3/18/2024

TikTok Ban Won’t Happen

House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell. House passage of the bill is only the first step. The Senate would also need to pass the measure for it to become law, and lawmakers in that chamber indicated it would undergo a thorough review. Senate Majority… Continue reading TikTok Ban Won’t Happen

‘Coachability’ does not refute IQ

I saw this going viral: “They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).”~ @nntaleb https://t.co/bJLxHLCYBS — Zhuo Xi (@birdxi1988) March 13, 2024 Under the timed conditions of an IQ test, eliminating false patterns or noise… Continue reading ‘Coachability’ does not refute IQ

The Daily View: 3/13/2024

Item #1: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Raising Another $500M to Buy More Bitcoin. Plot twist: this is just a front to acquire the world’s largest private supply of cocaine.This sounds like a Ponzi or pyramid scheme in the making: raise money to buy more Bitcoin, which causes the price of Bitcoin and MicroStrategy stock to rise,… Continue reading The Daily View: 3/13/2024

New Weight Loss Drugs: Of Course It’s About Vanity

Eli Lilly does not want its new weight loss drugs to be used for vanity purposes: Eli Lilly's new ad says weight loss drugs aren't meant for vanity purposes. https://t.co/xCIQChRbR9 — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 8, 2024 This is so disingenuous of Eli Lilly. The ineluctable reason these new weight loss drugs are a hundred-billion… Continue reading New Weight Loss Drugs: Of Course It’s About Vanity

Don’t beat yourself up for missing out on AI or Nvidia hype

In 1997 IBM made headlines worldwide after its supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a 6-game match. In 2006 IBM researcher David Ferrucci created Watson, as a successor to Deep Blue, who had high hopes Watson would revolutionize healthcare, but like Deep Blue, it was a sort of solution looking for a… Continue reading Don’t beat yourself up for missing out on AI or Nvidia hype