For Love of Narrative
What's Your Stock Market Story? - Bloomberg View:
"For a brief moment, we understand how little we really understand. The grim reality of human cognition is that however little we know, we understand even less. Hence, the accidental revelation in the headline is more noteworthy for how extraordinary it is. Markets move up and down for no apparent reason. We have spilled plenty of ink and generated billions of pixels explaining why people want and need reasons to explain these movements. The human love of narrative is a dangerous cognitive failing that constantly leads investors astray." (read more at link above)
My Reading List
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In Case You Missed It...
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This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets, health, food assistance,
and Social Security. On state budgets, Wesley Tharpe, Clara Wilson, and
Joanna L...
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Air safety advocates say a GOP proposal won't mandate the collision warning
system airline jets need
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A midair crash prompted a bill that would have mandated new anti-collision
alerts. Safety advocates say a revised GOP bill doesn't do enough.
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Neil Sedaka, Singing Craftsman of Memorable Pop Songs, Dies at 86
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He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s
and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented
his car...
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Stardew Valley Fans Aren’t Holding Back About How Much They Hate This Guy
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[image: Clint appears surrounded by mountains.]
The eligible bachelor has few defenders
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Trump Slams Anthropic as 'Woke,' Orders Feds to Stop Using Claude AI
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The company refused to grant the Department of Defense permission to use it
for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapons systems.
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Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used
in War
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The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash
about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who
decides on a...
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Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because
of Grok’
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In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with
ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude
images.
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Employers to jobseekers: Your AI résumé isn’t fooling anyone
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It’s easy to spot when candidates over-rely on AI, employers say, yet
jobseekers aren’t holding back on the technology.
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10 Hacks Every Telegram User Should Know
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Telegram has powerful but confusing granular controls for privacy and
security.
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This is the End and a New Beginning
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I've been thinking about this for some time.
After 21 years of writing this blog almost daily, I've decided to stop
writing the daily updates on the blog.
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7 Google Photos tips for perfecting your pics on Pixel 7
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Our new Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro have incredible cameras for capturing your
memories, but snapping a photo is just the beginning. We all want to get
our ...
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‘Every weld is a challenge’
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Philadelphia schools are focusing career-tech training on preparing
students to move from high school to apprenticeships and skilled jobs,
reports Chalkbea...
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Mindfulness: New age craze or science-backed solution?
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- Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry.
- Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the
effect sizes found in stud...
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32+ Years...
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[image: image from pbs.twimg.com]
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Our comment on COPPA
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Responsibility is our number one priority at YouTube, and this includes
protecting kids and their privacy. Over the last few years, we’ve
significantly in...
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Huawei Working On 5G Radar Tech For Self-Driving Cars
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Current chairman Xu Zhijun said Huawei is working on millimeter-wave radar
and laser radar for use in autonomous vehicles as part of an “ecosystem” of
car-...
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Bifurcar 'blockchain': universos paralelos de cadenas ingobernables
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Los usuarios de Nano han demandado a sus desarrolladores por una pérdida de
criptomonedas valorada en 150 millones de euros. Si prospera, estarían
obligado...
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The Blog Moves On
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But the show goes on.
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against *The Bachelor*
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Over the course of the season, the show’s latest villain just might have …
grown as a person.
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The search for the best middle-class tax cut
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Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their
taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and
not just ...
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IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play?
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IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company
acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month --
buying the stream...
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Book Expo America, BookCon, Detroit Public TV Video
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Tweets about #BookCon2015 OR #BEA15
*Date: Fri May, 29 2015 11:00 AM CDT — Sun May, 31 2015 3:00 PM CDT*
*Detroit Public TV will bring live inside the boo...
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The World's Billionaires
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Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's
richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global
econ...
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