"A humanoid robot moves its legs at a laboratory in Japan as directed by the brain waves of a small monkey located in the United States." - Discovery News (thanks Heather!)
19.1.08
Robot Controlled by Monkey Across the Sea
16.1.08
The Blow-Up Artist
Excellent article about Victor Niederhoffer in the New Yorker. I cannot recommend this strongly enough.
"On a wall opposite Victor Niederhoffer’s desk is a large painting of the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship that sank in the South Pacific in 1820, after being attacked by a giant sperm whale, and that later served as the inspiration for “Moby-Dick.” The Essex’s captain, George Pollard, Jr., survived, and persuaded his financial backers to give him another ship, but he sailed it for little more than a year before it foundered on a coral reef. Pollard was ruined, and he ended his days as a night watchman. The painting, which Niederhoffer, a sixty-three-year-old hedge-fund manager, acquired after losing all his clients’ money—and a good deal of his own—in the Thai stock market crash of 1997, serves as an admonition against the incaution to which he, a notorious risktaker, is prone, and as a reminder of the precariousness of his success..."
You can check out Neiderhoffer's website at dailyspeculations.com
15.1.08
Trader Made Billions on Subprime
Fascinating article from the WSJ:
"On Wall Street, the losers in the collapse of the housing market are legion. The biggest winner looks to be John Paulson, a little-known hedge fund manager who smelled trouble two years ago..."
10.1.08
Bears Exceed Bulls by Most in 17 Years, Investor Poll Says
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The number of individual investors who are bearish on U.S. equities exceeds those who are bullish by the most since November 1990, a signal to some investors that stocks may be poised to rebound.
In the week ended yesterday, about 59 percent of investors polled by the American Association of Individual Investors said they were bearish, expecting stocks to fall over the next six months. That was the highest since October 1990 and almost double the 32 percent average over the past five years.
4.1.08
What is Past is Present
Fun, ingenious flash game. Without giving too much away, your past actions can come back to help/haunt you.....
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(via notes, happy notes)
How They Work
A fascinating tally of rituals, habits, and ruminations on aspects of the creative process specific to well known creators. The list is long and includes writers (Philip Pullman - who used to write in a shed, Don Dellilo - who writes a paragraph a page), researchers in robotics and psychology, musicians (Brian Eno, Autechre), actors (Bill Murray, Nick Nolte)..... and more and more.
rodcorp: How we work
(via kottke.org)
3.1.08
Water Walk
John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
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