Saturday, July 29, 2023

"Inside Walmart’s Warehouse of the Future" (WMT)

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From the Wall Street Journal, July 28: Robots handle many functions at Florida facility, from unloading trucks and scanning boxes to buildin...

"How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns"

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We are still a long way from understanding turbulence and fluid dynamics but getting closer. * From Quanta Magazine, July 18:  By treating E...

Chips: "Microsoft Emphasizes Importance of GPU Supply for AI"

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From PYMNTS.com, July 28: Microsoft  has told investors that the supply of graphics processing units (GPUs) is a key resource — and risk f...

"How to Sharpen a Scythe"

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Alternative title: "Why I am not a writer." This is so smooth that you don't even notice when he drops it into gear and sets o...
Friday, July 28, 2023

"Former Special Forces engineer says Russian minefields are unlike anything he has ever seen and battling these hidden death traps is 'exhausting'"

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This. This is what was meant by  defense-in-depth in our June 5 post " Oh My God, What Are The Ukrainian Generals Doing? ". Repri...

"Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos"

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From Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance, July 20: On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a...

"AI and the paperclip problem"

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From VoxEU - CEPR, June 10, 2018 : Philosophers have speculated that an AI tasked with a task such as creating paperclips might cause an...

"...Who Was Behind History's Biggest Bank Heist?"

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From The Economist's 1843 Magazine, July 27: Criminals stole $2,5bn from Iraq's largest state bank in broad daylight. Nicholas Pelha...

When New Money Meets Old Bloodlines: The American Experience In France

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Though the stories of impoverished British aristos marrying American heiresses are more famous, the French stories are probably more inter...

Mass Panic As Jim Cramer Predicts Giant Bug Mutants Will NOT Attack Earth Next Tuesday At 2:17 PM

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From the Babylon Bee: The nations of Earth have descended into a mass panic this week after Mad Money host Jim Cramer announced that giant ...

If You Watch Inflation Professionally, This May Be Of Interest

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From Phoenix Capital Research via ZeroHedge, originally published under the headline: If You’re Worried About Inflation, You Need to Read Th...

Those Are Some Fancy Cars That Are Burning

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No, not the French arson/riots. Those were the vehicles of everyday people, many old enough that the owners didn't even have full covera...

PCE Inflation Up 0.2% in June, Up 3.0% Year-over-Year

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That's the headline number. Year-over-year excluding food and energy was up 4.1%. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, July 28: Persona...

"Are you going to let Sam Altman’s crypto project scan your eyeballs or not?"

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Well, when you put it like that... From TechCrunch, July 27: Worldcoin's Orb tour has spread across North America, Europe, the Middle Ea...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Virgin Island's Attorneys Now Claim JP Morgan Not Only Facilitated Sex Trafficking But “Actively Participated in Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Venture” (JPM)

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 From Wall Street on Parade, who seem to be reading all the case filings. July 27: The Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, armed wi...

BIG If Scalable: "New material is a game changer in radiative cooling"

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Materials science baby! From Advanced Science News, September 28, 2022 : A new coating designed for sub-ambient radiative cooling could help...

Gasoline Is Surging All Over the World in Fresh Inflation Blow

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No kidding, here are RBOB futures via FinViz (also on blogroll at right): And from Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance, July 26: The price of gasoli...

"S&P Futures Soar To 2023 High After Dovish Fed, Meta Earnings"

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From ZeroHedge, July 27: US futures and global stocks soared, and the dollar slumped as investors wagered that the Fed has reached the end ...

"Poland’s Blooming Relationship With South Korea"

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From Emerging Europe, July 17: According to South Korea’s president, Poland is a gateway for Korean companies to enter Europe and a strateg...

"The EU-Indonesia Fight Over Nickel and Who Gets to Own the Clean Energy Future"

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From naked capitalism, July 26: Indonesia boasts some of the world’s richest mineral deposits, but it has long focused on digging them up a...