Paying Attention: It’s complicated. You probably use Google everyday, but do you spend a lot of time sorting out how Google finds out all that neat info you requested (hint–it has to do with distributed computing across a zillion platforms using proprietary software, not just proprietary algorithms). What if we told you that the language …
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Spartans and the enemy
“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they….”
The Perfect Investment Manager: Quantitative. Unemotional. Never Sleeps.
Paying Attention: Is your hedge fund (or mutual fund) being managed by a robot? If so, lucky boy. The bots have a couple of advantages over the Masters in Applied Math grads from Hopkins who used to look after your portolio. To those who thought that robots couldn’t take over their Portfolio Manager position on …
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How to bring an old laptop back to life
Paying Attention: If you have one computer, there’s a good chance you have more than one: specifically an old laptop that’s past it’s OS life. It happens. No matter how much you update, no matter how much you upgrade, sooner or later you reach a point where that once-treasured-and-essential-laptop can no longer take another round of …
Bob Hope on Golf
“If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it the right way….”
The Marker: The Incredible Story of Jeff Knox
Paying Attention: Jeff Knox may be the least famous golfer to ever play in The Masters. Embed from Getty Images You would have to be one of the kings of golf minutiae to recognize his name: He is the tournament’s official “marker”, an extra non-competing amateur player who plays with one of the tournament’s competitors to …
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The Slang of Golf
Paying Attention: It’s that time of the year. The Masters golf tournament is this week and we’re quickly moving into the sweet spot of the Pro Golf Tournament year. Whether you like (we do) or not (those people are out there), golf is going to be all over the TV in coming months–especially since 2016 is …
Nido quote
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
Williams quote
“If the mailman stopped to kick at every dog that barked at him, he’d never deliver the mail…”
twain on the truth
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything….”