“How Standard Chartered became the world’s dominant diamond financier is a cautionary tale of a bank that thought it knew better than rivals, according to interviews with more than 20 people, including executives who worked at the bank and had […]
This MIT Technology Review article discusses their use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), a machine learning technique, to better understand fashion and style. | learn more
Venture capitalist Benedict Evans has a new post discussing the likely winner-takes-all outcomes in the burgeoning autonomous car business. His analysis is always very thorough and worth reading. | learn more
In case you haven’t seen this news everywhere already, Amazon wants to find a city to support a 2nd headquarters. Chicago will bid. I’ll reserve excitement, but it’d be cool for sure! | learn more
CPS is usually in the news in a negative light (being broke, teachers strikes, schools closing, etc.), but this week’s story is something to be proud of! Over the past 6 years, the graduation rate has grown 36%. The growth […]
“A new paper in the journal Proceedings of Royal Society B reveals that when wild dogs in Botswana sneeze, they aren’t merely clearing their nasal passages. They are actually voting on whether to go hunting, and some dogs are especially […]
To all my color-blind brethren, it’s time to rejoice! Did you know Uno is the most popular non-collectible card game in the world? | learn more
My knowledge of Thomas Edison’s story and achievements was very limited before this book. I knew he had some relationship to “inventing electricity” and that our local electric utility ComEd is named after him. I also knew he had some […]
Two things scientists are trying: 1) suck up carbon dioxide from the air, and 2) dim sunlight by releasing special material from high altitude balloons. | learn more
“As a condition, orthorexia has a somewhat zig-zagged history. The term was coined by Steven Bratman, then an alternative medicine practitioner, in a 1997 article for Yoga Journal after he noticed that some of his clients, ‘had reduced the dimensionality […]