I have been reading Buffet’s early letters (pre-Berkshire) and this value investing story was in there. “In 1956, the Buffett Partnership began acquiring Dempster Mill Manufacturing Co., a producer of windmills and farm equipment in Beatrice, Nebraska, about 100 miles […]
The PHTI is a new independant nonprofit that, “aims to provide independent, evidence-based assessments of emerging products, something that is currently lacking in the market.” Their first “blistering” report concluded that diabetes monitoring apps “do not deliver meaningful clinical benefits, […]
“YC taught us to outsource very little. Own the problem. Own the outcome. And if you do, you get to be stupidly ambitious.” ~ learn more
Coverage by Axios, and they named Nutrisense, which is cool! “Glucose monitoring tech could become even more widely used by nondiabetics after the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first over-the-counter device.” ~ learn more
Here’s another major settlement that will possibly end up driving commissions lower for real estate transactions. It seems that brokers will no longer be splitting commission by default. Time will tell how this one plays out! ~ learn more
“I was recently introduced to the idea of tarpit ideas. These are essentially startup ideas that seem like a great opportunity and have been tried many times before but end with the company not working out.” FYI: Scroll down a […]
“The research paper‘s title is apt: ‘Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.’” ~ learn more
Nothing, of course. But some fMRI scans might show things anyway. This study warns researchers to beware of false positives. ~ learn more
“Scientists achieved this effect by changing each animal’s ‘epigenome’, one feature of which is a collection of chemical tags that are bound to DNA and affect gene activity. After the treatment, activity of the targeted gene dropped and remained low […]
A win for machine learning algorithms. The article does quote a critic who says this is not yet good enough to be a legit test. “The proteins were able to predict all-cause dementia as well as particular types, including Alzheimer’s […]