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Chen Wenling's Bernie Madoff Art: Wall Street Villain Pinned To Wall By Bull | The Huffington Post

Chen Wenling's Bernie Madoff Art: Wall Street Villain Pinned To Wall By Bull | The Huffington Post : The latest Bernie Madoff-inspired art was displayed at a Beijing art gallery on Sunday. “What You see Might Not Be Real,” by Chen Wenling depicts the Ponzi schemer as a devil, horns and all. The bull, which represents Wall Street, is farting because in Chinese “放屁” (fang pi) literally means to fart, but in slang means to bluff or lie.
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When This All Blows Up... | Peak Prosperity

When This All Blows Up... | Peak Prosperity : The Ka-POOM Theory In terms how this will all end, we favor the scenario put forth by Eric Janszen in 1998 called the Ka-POOM�theory. This theory rests on the belief that the Federal Reserve along with the other world central banks looked at Japan's several decades of economic stagnation and decided that deflationary recessions are to be avoided at all costs -- even if that means blowing asset bubbles and then cleaning up the destruction left behind in their aftermath. Because the Fed, et al. have a limited playbook (which is: print, and then print some more), the Ka-POOM model calls for limited periods of disinflation, followed by massive money printing sprees that then produce high inflation.
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What Is CUDA | NVIDIA Official Blog

What Is CUDA | NVIDIA Official Blog : Even with this broad and expanding interest, as I travel across the United States educating researchers and students about the benefits of GPU acceleration, I routinely get asked the question “what is CUDA?” Most people confuse CUDA for a language or maybe an API. It is not. It’s more than that. CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model�that makes using a GPU for general purpose computing simple and elegant. The developer still programs in the familiar C, C , Fortran, or an ever expanding list of supported languages, and incorporates extensions of these languages in the form of a few basic keywords. These keywords let the developer express massive amounts of parallelism and direct the compiler to the portion of the application that maps to the GPU. A simple example of code is shown below. It’s written first in plain “C” and then in “C with CUDA extensions.
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Driving innovation: Jean-Pierre Diernaz on Nissan’s Uefa Champions League journey - SportsPro Media

Driving innovation: Jean-Pierre Diernaz on Nissan’s Uefa Champions League journey - SportsPro Media : With any partnership, you have to look at your brand dimensions. Many think this is just a European partnership but really, because of the Champions League’s brand dimensions, it is worldwide. About three years ago, Nissan was really growing worldwide, and within all of our key regions we were increasing our share. We were becoming a key part of public thinking in China, Japan, Korea, Europe and the Americas, and we started to think, where do we go from here? One thing we knew we had to do was to continue to accelerate the brand awareness of Nissan across the globe.� So we stopped again and asked, “How do you do that?” Immediately, the answer is through sponsorship. Sponsorship is one of the best ammunitions to drive awareness, but then you think, what is the right kind of sponsorship for my brand? We looked at music, Hollywood and sport and we realised that sport is closely alig
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Professor Stephen Hawking gives lecture on Donald Trump and the post-truth world - all via hologram | The Independent

Professor Stephen Hawking gives lecture on Donald Trump and the post-truth world - all via hologram | The Independent : “With Brexit and Trump . . . we are witnessing a global revolt against experts,” he said, adding�that it came at a time when the world was having to deal with�climate change�and deforestation.� “The answers to these problems will come from science and technology,” he said.� Gadgets and tech news in pictures 43 show all Hawking has previously warned artificial intelligence could potentially eradicate poverty and disease. Nevertheless, he has also said AI could be the last event in the history of our civilisation if humanity did not learn to cope with the risks it posed, suggesting it could potentially bring about serious peril in the creation of powerful autonomous weapons and novel ways for those in power to oppress and control the masses. Hawking has motor neuron disease, which is known as Gehrig's Disease in the US, and is paralysed and only able ale to
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Introduction to Cognitive Modeling

Introduction to Cognitive Modeling Cognitive models are appearing in all fields of cognition at a rapidly increasing rate, ranging from perception to memory to problem solving and decision-making. Over 80% of the articles appearing in major theoretical journals of Cognitive Science involve cognitive modeling. 1 Furthermore, applications of cognitive modeling are beginning to spill over into other fields including human factors, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, agent based modeling in economics, and many more. 2 Thus cognitive modeling is becoming an essential tool for Cognitive Science in particular and the Social Sciences in general, and any serious student with an inclination toward theory development needs to become a competent reader and perhaps user of these tools. 
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Introduction to Cognitive Modeling

Introduction to Cognitive Modeling Cognitive models are appearing in all fields of cognition at a rapidly increasing rate, ranging from perception to memory to problem solving and decision-making. Over 80% of the articles appearing in major theoretical journals of Cognitive Science involve cognitive modeling. 1 Furthermore, applications of cognitive modeling are beginning to spill over into other fields including human factors, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, agent based modeling in economics, and many more. 2 Thus cognitive modeling is becoming an essential tool for Cognitive Science in particular and the Social Sciences in general, and any serious student with an inclination toward theory development needs to become a competent reader and perhaps user of these tools. 
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Introduction to Cognitive Modeling

Introduction to Cognitive Modeling Cognitive models are appearing in all fields of cognition at a rapidly increasing rate, ranging from perception to memory to problem solving and decision-making. Over 80% of the articles appearing in major theoretical journals of Cognitive Science involve cognitive modeling. 1 Furthermore, applications of cognitive modeling are beginning to spill over into other fields including human factors, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, agent based modeling in economics, and many more. 2 Thus cognitive modeling is becoming an essential tool for Cognitive Science in particular and the Social Sciences in general, and any serious student with an inclination toward theory development needs to become a competent reader and perhaps user of these tools. 
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Drupal 101: What I learnt from hours of troubleshooting Feeds

Drupal 101: What I learnt from hours of troubleshooting Feeds : Set the parser to CSV parser. You have a few options for choice of delimiter: comma, semi-colon, tab, pipe and plus. Even though there’s an option to have no headers on your CSV file, my advice is, don’t tempt fate and just add the headers to the file. Your mapping source MUST match the header row in your CSV file.
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WIRED

WIRED : LATEST VIDEOS Ridley Scott Reveals the Origin of His AI Characters in the Alien Saga Director Ridley Scott has featured several AI characters in his films. His most recent is Walter in Alien: Covenant. WIRED caught up with Ridley, his son Luke and the President of AMD to talk about AI.
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Recode Daily: Elon Musk is gonna get inside your head - Recode

Recode Daily: Elon Musk is gonna get inside your head - Recode : Elon Musk launched Neuralink, a startup developing tech that implants tiny electrodes in the human brain to upload and download thoughts. The move isn't too surprising since he talked about the idea at Code Conference last year. [Rolfe Winkler / The Wall Street Journal]
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How many people use/hold bitcoin in 2016

How many people use/hold bitcoin in 2016 : r/bitcoin has 180k subs to it so would it be safe to assume if we included all miners, users holders and whoever else that we are still at under 1 million users? If this is the case then we still have a long way to go.
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The Diaries of Facebook's Founder

By  Bonnie Goldstein Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and chief executive of  Facebook , launched the  phenomenally successful  social-networking site while he was a sophomore at Harvard. Facebook's forerunner was the somewhat more  r isqué    Facemash , a Harvard version of  Hot or Not . Facemash paired random pictures of Harvard undergraduates and invited users to vote on who was more attractive. Setting up Facemash required Zuckerberg to hack into protected areas of Harvard's computer network so he could copy and incorporate dormitory ID images from Harvard's  Kirkland ,  Eliot , and  Lowell  houses. In response, Harvard's disciplinary  administrative board  placed Zuckerberg on academic probation. While he was assembling Facemash, Zuckerberg kept an online journal, and like most college students, he didn't think very hard about who might end up reading it. Now a full-fledged tycoon, Zuckerberg has long since taken his journal offline. But a choice excerp
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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About : We have preliminarily assessed the Wikileaks disclosures from this morning. Based on our initial analysis, the alleged iPhone vulnerability affected iPhone 3G only and was fixed in 2009 when iPhone 3GS was released. Additionally, our preliminary assessment shows the alleged Mac vulnerabilities were previously fixed in all Macs launched after 2013. We have not negotiated with Wikileaks for any information. We have given them instructions to submit any information they wish through our normal process under our standard terms. Thus far, we have not received any information from them that isn't in the public domain. We are tireless defenders of our users' security and privacy, but we do not condone theft or coordinate with those that threaten to harm our users.
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Sources: Trump learned a lesson on dealmaking - CNNPolitics.com

Sources: Trump learned a lesson on dealmaking - CNNPolitics.com : Two sources in the Freedom Caucus meeting in the White House Cabinet Room on Thursday confirmed that the President, when pressed about some of their policy concerns with the bill, said, "Forget about the little shit." "Some members wanted to talk about the policy aspect of the bill, and that wasn't something he wanted to talk about," said a Freedom Caucus member who was in the room. "He wanted to talk about the big picture."
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Sources: Trump learned a lesson on dealmaking - CNNPolitics.com

Sources: Trump learned a lesson on dealmaking - CNNPolitics.com : At one meeting Trump held with members of the "Tuesday Group," an informal caucus of moderate Republicans, the lawmakers went around the room and answered where they stood on the bill. When Pennsylvania's Charlie Dent said he was a "no," Trump replied, "Why am I even talking to you?"
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Internet Pioneer Warns Our Era Could Become The 'Digital Dark Ages' : The Two-Way : NPR

Internet Pioneer Warns Our Era Could Become The 'Digital Dark Ages' : The Two-Way : NPR : As an example, Cerf points to a book by author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. In Team of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln, Goodwin relied heavily on poring over the physical letters sent between Lincoln and his contemporaries. As The Telegraph, quoting Cerf, notes: "Such a book might not be possible to write about the people living today ... — the digital content such as emails that an author might need will have 'evaporated because nobody saved it, or it's around but it's not interpretable because it was created by software that's 100 years old'." Cerf calls the problem the "digital vellum" and says one solution might be to take a digital "snapshot" when an item is stored, recording all the elements needed to reproduce it at a later date. E&T says: "The snapshot could then be used to reproduc
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YouTube's Better-Than-TV Pitch Undermined by Offensive Video - Bloomberg

YouTube's Better-Than-TV Pitch Undermined by Offensive Video - Bloomberg : Four years ago, Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s business lead, confessed a mistake. "I thought that YouTube was like TV. But it isn’t," he said at Google’s annual advertising show. "YouTube talks back. It’s interactive. And YouTube is everywhere." � Kyncl’s message resonated with advertisers. Gross ad revenue at YouTube soared from roughly $4 billion in 2013 to $11 billion last year, brokerage firm�Monness Crespi Hardt & Co. estimates. At the same event in 2016, Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki boasted about taking ad dollars from traditional TV networks. Yet now the same traits Kyncl said made YouTube better than TV have plunged the video service into crisis. Some of the world’s largest advertisers, from Verizon Communications Inc. to Johnson & Johnson, stopped spending on YouTube because of concern their ads could appear next to offensive videos. More big companies pulled back
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Donald Trump: TIME Interview on Truth and Falsehoods | Time.com

Donald Trump: TIME Interview on Truth and Falsehoods | Time.com : I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. When everyone said I wasn’t going to win the election, I said well I think I would. You know it is interesting, somebody came up to me and said the other day, gee whiz, the New York Times and other people, you know other groups, had you down at one percent, well, I said no I think I am going to win, and people smiled, George Stephanopoulos laughed, you remember.
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What Do College-Football Fans Today Want? - WSJ

What Do College-Football Fans Today Want? - WSJ Today’s fans seem interested in the same amenities that have always interested football fans. At Ole Miss, one of the first schools to survey its supporters, Rebels fans said before last season that mobile web, apps and email access were the three least important of 53 elements of a live game, according to the school’s summary of the study. Last year, though, Ole Miss installed a new wireless network in its football stadium for about $5 million, in part because students said cellular reception was a priority, athletic director Ross Bjork said. “I don’t think it’s on the forefront of the broad fan base yet,” he said. “The key is preparing for the future. We know this is going to be a part of the fan experience, and we know fans will continue to evolve.” Some schools are still weighing whether it is worth the cost. Estimates for wireless installation can exceed $7 million, and athletic departments fear it may not offer an immediate financ
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Renowned critic is stunned by Apple Music: ‘How could they get it so wrong?’ – BGR

Renowned critic is stunned by Apple Music: ‘How could they get it so wrong?’ – BGR : A lot of people are using Apple Music, but how many are staying around to pay for it now that the free trial period is over? One person who certainly won’t be shelling out cash for Apple Music is�highly respected music industry analyst and critic Bob Lefsetz, who is simply stunned at how much he disliked using the service during the three-month trial period. In fact, the major question he has for Apple about his experience with Apple Music is, “How could they get it so wrong?:
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Secure Shell - Wikipedia

Secure Shell - Wikipedia : SSH is typically used to log in to a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SSH file transfer (SFTP) or secure copy (SCP) protocols.[2] SSH uses the client-server model.
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This Silly Button From Logitech Made My Smart Home Fun Again

This Silly Button From Logitech Made My Smart Home Fun Again : I have issues with smart home technology. The promise of a Jetsons-style, automated living environment has never been closer, but the experience basically sucks right now. After spending a few weeks with a programmable button by Logitech, however, I feel suddenly hopeful.
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Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia

Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia : In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the claim that in contrast to interpretations of their own behavior, people place undue emphasis on internal characteristics of the agent (character or intention), rather than external factors, in explaining other people's behavior. The effect's existence has been challenged by one peer-reviewed article.[1]
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BROADCASTING AND SPORT: VALUE DRIVERS OF TV RIGHT DEALS IN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Thomas Hoehn and Zafeira Kastrinaki

This paper investigates the ever closer symbiotic relationship of media and sport in an analysis of broadcasting right deals in sport. We focus mainly on deals related to national and international football competitions which make up nearly half of the value of all TV rights deals which we estimate to be worth ca € 10 billion per annum across Europe. We construct an empirical model of TV rights and find that the key driver of deal values remains the number of eyeballs in each country but increasingly, in the multi-platform environment competing for audience with a willingness to pay for attractive content, it is quality factors such as talent, top clubs and competitive leagues that influence TV sport right deal values and the allocation of revenues among the major stakeholders. Furthermore, the drivers of choice of broadcaster (public or private) and broadcasting format (licence fee, advertising revenues or pay TV subscriptions) and the regulatory cons
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Television and Globalization: The TV Content Global Value Chain - Chalaby - 2016 - Journal of Communication - Wiley Online Library

Television and Globalization: The TV Content Global Value Chain - Chalaby - 2016 - Journal of Communication - Wiley Online Library Abstract This study uses the global value chain (GVC) framework to analyze the globalization of television and argues that it has been driven by the dynamics of a newly formed TV content value chain. Distinct segments emerged as the chain globalized and firms sought a competitive advantage by expanding internationally within their sector. This article focuses on four dimensions of the TV content value chain and, documenting the growth of transnational TV networks and formats, argues that the TV industry's millennial global shift was triggered by internationalization of the chain's segments. Finally, it suggests that industry conglomeration should be comprehended in the context of Internet disruption and international fragmentation of production within expanding value chains.
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THE VALUE OF CONTENT

https://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/public-policy/The-Value-of-Content-Digital.pdf The emergence of a new online-content value chain is threatening the history of incremental change, and is changing roles, relationships, and value capture. Over time, this might be as disruptive as the changes experienced by the music, newspaper, and magazine industries. Until recently, the nature of change in the video industry (FTA and Subscription TV value chains) has been evolutionary as opposed to dis- continuous; with every new development, most players were able to gradually modify their strate- gies and business models in order to continue to be successful. The emergence of a new online-content value chain is threatening that history of incremental change, and is changing roles, relationships, and value capture. These changes might, over time, be as dis- ruptive as those experienced by the music, news- paper, and magazine ind
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