News from financial industry
Alex is very very highly rated by those who know him, but still in the broader scheme of things significantly underrated as a Bay Area tech and finance thinker. Here is Alex on SPACs: If the best fundraise (IPO included) aggregates as many potential buyers as possible to raise money at the highest price with […]
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From a GitHub repository: This GitHub repository is a back up of my FAERSFix scripts. The FDA Adverse Effect Reporting System is a horrifically dysfunctional quagmire of shockingly bad data. The data is not just bad for severe epistemological reasons, it is also poorly organized and riddled with flagrant absurd errors. These scripts smooth over the very […]
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I’ve tried it a few times, and I think it will become “a thing.” You can read about it here, though it is time someone did a more current article. It is the best forum invented to date for mid-size, friendly, intellectual chats. Broadly speaking imagine a Zoom call, with competing topic-named rooms, the video […]
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Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is a top 10 album this week — more than four decades after its release — thanks to a viral TikTok video that’s had everyone vibing along to “Dreams.” Rumours now ranks seventh on the Billboard 200 chart, the publication announced last night, the album’s first appearance in the top 10 since […]
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This seems unconfirmed, and do note some sources in the story do not believe this account, but here goes: AstraZeneca, whose Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial has been on hold for more than a month, did not get critical safety data to the US Food and Drug Administration until last week, according to a […]
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“If quantum computing actually materializes, in the sense that it’s a large scale, reliable computing option for us, then we’re going to enter a completely different era of simulation,” Davoudi says. “I am starting to think about how to perform my simulations of strong interaction physics and atomic nuclei if I had a quantum computer […]
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Not a CWT, as he will be interviewing me, but likely a discussion too, who knows what I may fling back at him? What do you all recommend I read to prepare? I prepared a great deal for my CWT with Vitalik a few years ago (one of my favorite episodes), but what is new […]
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It would seem so, now there are lots of them, here is one part of my Bloomberg column: The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to the World Food Programme, part of the United Nations. Yet the Center for Global Development, a leading and highly respected think tank, ranked the winner dead last out of 40 groups as measured […]
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I will be doing a Conversation with him. So what should I ask? Here is his um…Wikipedia page, presumably it is fairly accurate!
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This started in the late 1980s, and was led by GMU economist Don Lavoie, who earlier had been a computer programmer. Here is one bit from Don’s extensive essay, co-authored with Howard Baetjer and William Tulloh: The market for scholarly ideas is now badly compartmentalized, due to the nature of our institutions for dispersing information. […]
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