12-04-2015, 09:17 PM
If you chart it out, Huang says, that means that on average, speech recognition has gotten 20% better every single year for the last twenty years. Which means that the end is in sight. "In the next four to five years, computers will be as good as humans" at understanding the words that come out of your mouth, Huang says.
Microsoft Chief Scientist Xuedong Huang on the future of speech recognition - Business Insider
U.S. business investment advanced just 2.2% from a year earlier in the third quarter, a slowdown that marks one of the worse performances of the six-year-old economic expansion. The trend seems at odds with ultralow interest rates, consistent hiring and steady, if unspectacular, overall economic growth. So what’s causing business investment to slump?
Why Business Investment Is Slumping in Five Charts - Real Time Economics - WSJ
A startup called Mother Dirt has developed an "AO+ mist" — a spray containing a type of bacteria called AOB that you put on your skin, which may restore it to a natural, healthier state. Our extreme, hygiene-obsessed routines are unnecessary, Jasmina Aganovic, president of Mother Dirt, told Business Insider. "We’ve confused 'clean' with 'sterile,'" she said.
I showered myself in bacteria for a week - Business Insider
Results showed that it didn't matter whether students saw recent headshots or yearbook photos — the partners they perceived as more powerful (as in, the partners whose faces looked dominant and mature) inevitably led more profitable firms. In other words, it wasn't as though partners developed a powerful appearance through years of experience — they looked powerful before they'd even gone to law school or launched their careers.
What your yearbook photo says about your future
It took nearly two centuries for candlestick charts to make the leap to the Western hemisphere from Japan — and just a quarter century to become the preferred charting technique of traders from Wall Street to Main Street. It is believed that technical analysis was first used in 18th century feudal Japan to trade rice receipts, eventually evolving into candlestick charting in the early 1800s. Steve Nison, founder of Candlecharts.com, is recognized as having introduced candlesticks to the West in 1989 when he wrote about them for Futures magazine while working for Merrill Lynch.
7 key candlestick reversal patterns - MarketWatch