These are my links for July 15th through July 16th:
- Xavier Llorà » Blog Archive » Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning – We are living in the peta-byte era.We have larger and larger data to analyze, process and transform into useful answers for the domain experts. Robust data mining tools, able to cope with petascale volumes and/or high dimensionality producing human-understandable solutions are key on several domain areas. Genetics-based machine learning (GBML) techniques are perfect candidates for this task, among others, due to the recent advances in representations, learning paradigms, and theoretical modeling.
- Edward O. Thorp – His hedge funds and his personal portfolio have been profitable in 42 of the subsequent 43 years. Based on his work, he and Jay Regan launched the first market neutral hedge fund in 1969. Dr. Thorp, with Claude Shannon, also invented the first wearable computer in 1961 to win at roulette. He has also written Elementary Probability (1966), The Mathematics of Gambling (1984) and numerous mathematical papers on probability, game theory, and functional analysis.
- Paper Economy – A US Real Estate Bubble Blog: Burning Like a Phoenix: Crash and Burn for Phoenix Area Residential Home Prices – When a boom goes bust many participants would be happy to simply snap back to the life as it was in the pre-boom era but that’s just wishful thinking… the reality is, it will be many years of cleaning up the aftermath during which time prices will likely overshoot the mean and drop lower than anyone expects.
- First half foreclosures break records – Jul. 16, 2009 – "What this means is, despite the intensity of the efforts on the part of government and lenders we don't have a handle on foreclosures yet," said Rick Sharga, a spokesman for RealtyTrac. – WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT GOV'T INTERVENTION DOESN'T WORK.
- Verleger Predicts $20 Oil This Year on ‘Devastating’ Crude Glut – Bloomberg.com – “Prices would be much lower today, but for the very large incentive to build inventories,” Verleger said. “You need forward buyers, which we had when people were fearing inflation, but as concerns turn toward deflation” that will no longer be the case. – MAYBE
- At a Factory, the Spark for China’s Violence – NYTimes.com – During a four-hour melee in a walkway between factory dormitories, Han and Uighur workers bludgeoned one another with fire extinguishers, paving stones and lengths of steel shorn from bed frames. – IT'S US VS THEM MENTALITY.
- Yoga Retreats With Chores Attract the Weary and Unemployed – NYTimes.com – Now he spends his days on the Himalayan Institute’s 400-acre wooded campus, practicing hatha yoga and meditation, studying spiritual texts, biking, walking and preparing meals in the institute’s kitchen. In exchange for his cooking duties and an annual fee of $3,000, he gets a private room, three vegetarian meals a day and unlimited access to the institute’s classes, seminars and other events. – ONE DAY I WILL START A NEURAL NET OR ENGINEERING RETREAT AND CHARGE MONEY FOR SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
- At a Factory, the Spark for China’s Violence – NYTimes.com – During a four-hour melee in a walkway between factory dormitories, Han and Uighur workers bludgeoned one another with fire extinguishers, paving stones and lengths of steel shorn from bed frames. – IT'S US VS THEM MENTALITY.
- Yoga Retreats With Chores Attract the Weary and Unemployed – NYTimes.com – Now he spends his days on the Himalayan Institute’s 400-acre wooded campus, practicing hatha yoga and meditation, studying spiritual texts, biking, walking and preparing meals in the institute’s kitchen. In exchange for his cooking duties and an annual fee of $3,000, he gets a private room, three vegetarian meals a day and unlimited access to the institute’s classes, seminars and other events. – ONE DAY I WILL START A NEURAL NET OR ENGINEERING RETREAT AND CHARGE MONEY FOR SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
- Economy in China Regains Robust Pace of Growth – NYTimes.com – The robust growth in China’s economy came as the United States and several other leading economies remain mired in recession, hobbled by the aftereffects of bad lending, weak real estate markets, and the uneven results of economic stimulus packages. – NOTE, THEY ARE USING AGGRESSIVE BANK LENDING
- Rail Funds Give Chicago Hub a Lift – WSJ.com – Rail congestion in Chicago is so bad that some freight is taken off trains at one side of the city, driven across town on trucks and placed back on another train. Paul Nowicki, assistant vice president at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., said that is particularly true for perishable goods transiting Chicago via Western states.
