I guess Lehman is given credit for standardizing the fees for selling a business. The “Lehman scale” is one where the % fees go down as the value of the deal goes up. It’s the opposite of how Federal income […]
An early 5-minute interview with Zuck. He’s holding a red solo cup. He’s pumped to occasionally be out in the wild and see Facebook open on someone’s computer screen. Someone in the office is filmed doing a keg stand. ~ […]
America has relatively high gender equality, maybe maybe that’s not such a great thing here. ~ learn more
No need to take this candidate seriously, yet the idea of a truly transparant government budget sounds lovely. “During a Michigan rally on April 21, he proposed the idea and said the move would allow every American to look at […]
There is this weird case of carbon accounting. “Shell sold to Canada’s largest oil sands companies millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse […]
There’s big money going into things that could lower carbon. Here’s the launch of a $1.4 billion new fund. “The fund, Decarbonization Partners Fund I, has already invested in seven companies including low-carbon hydrogen firm Monolith, biotechnology firm MycoWorks and […]
“In this essay, we consider whether some very special computers will become black holes before they become gods.” ~ learn more
Much better than a placebo, says this study of over 4,000 participants. It measured changes to “weight-related quality of life (WRQOL) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL)” scores. What I found interesting was that even with the drug, only 40-50% […]
Who’s ready for this future? “Our proposed framework successfully reconstructed both seen images (i.e., those observed by the human eye) and imagined images from brain activity. Quantitative evaluation showed that our framework could identify seen and imagined images highly accurately […]
Kristen Holmes is in an enviable position for many health researchers, given the large proprietary dataset she has access to. In addition to the data streams from millions of fitness trackers, the company has a pile date-stamped and labeled event […]