By the time he was 17, Mark Braverman had lived in three countries and spoke as many languages. But though he doesn’t have a hometown, he’s quick to call theoretical computer science his home. “Theoretical computer science is whatever you want it to be,” he said in his airy office at Princeton University, sitting between… Continue reading Mark Braverman Wins the IMU Abacus Medal
The One Commodity That Won’t Stop Soaring
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, In the past week, nearly all commodity markets have crashed amid growing fears of a recession, but one commodity price continues to rise. A combination of reduced supply from Russia and an outage at the U.S. Freeport LNG facility has sent natural gas prices soaring. One analyst compared today’s… Continue reading The One Commodity That Won’t Stop Soaring
The Road Not Taken | RealClearPolitics
States are scrambling in different directions in the wake of the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, but abortion rights might be more advanced if Roe had never existed. Fifty-five years ago Gov. Ronald Reagan signed a permissive abortion rights law that was passed by a bipartisan majority of the California legislature. The… Continue reading The Road Not Taken | RealClearPolitics
The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
Podcast: Download MYS214: In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world the brink of nuclear war, 3 times just on one day. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how we can to the edge of Armageddon and avoided it, as well as the aftermath and ramifications of the crisis. Get all new episodes automatically… Continue reading The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)
AI Makes Strides in Virtual Worlds More Like Our Own
That’s not to say the work is finished. “It’s much less real than the real world, even the best simulator,” said Daniel Yamins, a computer scientist at Stanford University. With colleagues at MIT and IBM, Yamins co-developed ThreeDWorld, which puts a strong focus on mimicking real-life physics in virtual worlds — things like how liquids… Continue reading AI Makes Strides in Virtual Worlds More Like Our Own
Something Snaps In The US Labor Market: Full, Part-Time Workers Plunge As Multiple Jobholders Soar
Something odd emerges when looking at the June payrolls report. On one hand, the closely followed establishment survey came in red hot, and despite dropping modestly from May, it still printed some 100K above the median consensus expectation, printing at 372K… … and with wages coming in line, rising 0.3% M/M or 5.1% Y/Y, it… Continue reading Something Snaps In The US Labor Market: Full, Part-Time Workers Plunge As Multiple Jobholders Soar
The 2022 House Midterm by the Numbers
Midterm elections involve high stakes, a great deal of groundless guessing, and lots of numbers – oddly similar to lotteries. Unlike lotteries, though, the many numbers associated with midterm elections are meaningful. The six meaningful midterm “lotto” numbers below should help historically ground your anticipation of what is likely or unlikely to happen in this… Continue reading The 2022 House Midterm by the Numbers
Stock Rating: What They Are & Why They Are Important
The stock market is a complex system made up of intricate technologies and a variety of participants, which include investors, market makers, traders, hedgers, speculators, financial experts, and analysts. Some of the most highly regarded individuals in the stock market world are analysts who spend their time researching companies. These analysts earn a living by sharing their opinions… Continue reading Stock Rating: What They Are & Why They Are Important
Feeling Stressed? Read a Poem
Explore With their daughter in the hospital suffering from kidney failure, Jonathan Bate and his wife Paula Byrne waited. “In that darkest moment, when she was struggling to survive, it was very hard to think of anything other than the prospect of losing her,” Bate says today. Bate and Byrne, both renowned literary scholars and… Continue reading Feeling Stressed? Read a Poem
“The Debate Is Over”: Morgan Stanley Unloads On The Dismal State Of The US Consumer
Yesterday, we reported that in Morgan Stanley’s Sunday Start note, the bank’s chief US equity strategist, Michael Wilson, wrote that while valuations have corrected a lot this year, this was all due to higher inflation and a more hawkish Fed. At the same time, the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) still does not reflect the risks… Continue reading “The Debate Is Over”: Morgan Stanley Unloads On The Dismal State Of The US Consumer