11-03-2015, 01:02 AM
"I would suggest that the defining financial development of the last year is likely to push things towards more secular stagnation," Summers said this week at the HSBC seminar.
Larry Summers on more secular stagnation - Business Insider
Most fund managers spend a lot of time meeting the management teams of businesses in which they are considering an investment. Jeremy Lang, who runs the Ardevora UK Income fund, is different. He makes a point never to meet company executives, arguing that they are experts in spin and all too often end up “misleading investors”.
Top fund manager: 'I don't meet company bosses - they lie' - Telegraph
Computer malware can often evade antivirus security software if the author changes a few lines of code or designs the program to automatically mutate before each new infection. Artificial neural networks, trained to recognize the characteristics of malicious code by looking at millions of examples of malware and non-malware files, could perhaps offer a far better way to catch such nefarious code. An approach known as deep learning, which involves training a network with many layers of simulated neurons using huge quantities of data, is being tested by several companies.
Antivirus Might Catch More Malicious Code Using Neural Networks | MIT Technology Review
Keyboards, mice, and touch screens all have their uses but have distinct limitations. They’re not particularly good for interacting with 3-D objects, such as those found in virtual reality or design programs. A company called Gest thinks its device, which slides onto the back of your hands and fingers to track their movements, provides a more natural and useful alternative.
I have prepared so much pasta in my 26 years on earth that I can now tell, to the second, when my boiling pasta is ready, even if I’m not in the same room. This has led to friends calling me the Pasta Whisperer.
Italy, don’t turn your back on pasta – it’s the best food on earth | Comment is free | The Guardian