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"I have always thought I had a good handle on the market. Until recently." Guess what? That just means that the market has gotten more efficient so that you can't arbitrage it anym…

But Hinton recently made significant advances in speech recognition using RBMs. Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU

Maybe the high-income earners assumed that it was free?

Fascinating story. The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like tha…

"And anyone who complained too loudly was at first ignored, then ridiculed, and finally threatened with arrest." What part of this statement corresponds to reality? Who was threate…

A tiny benefit multiplied by a billion people and several trillion dollars per day suddenly isn't so tiny anymore.

* Seems like all the more reason to try harder * Financial innovation does help here, such as micro-lending, although admittedly not something done by Wall Street * It's a complica…

First of all, I disagree with the entire premise of the question. Why does the intelligent have an obligation to dedicate his or her life to the creation of maximal value for socie…