Photobombs, Rational Actors and AI's Invasion
(Bloomberg View) -- My morning train reads:
- How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street: Machine learning, with its prowess in producing insights from data, is poised to have a hand in 99 percent of investing (Bloomberg)
- The Power of (Admitting Your) Mistakes (Umair Haque)
- Hidden peril awaits China's banks as property binge fuels mortgage fraud frenzy (Reuters)
- Ray Dalio: 9 common-sense rules for getting the most out of meetings (TED)
- Beyond All Expectations (Of Dollars And Data); see also Can Time Solve the Issue of High Valuations? (EconomPic Data)
- Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future (Grist)
- A guide to the billions in giveaways to special interests buried in the Senate tax bill (Los Angeles Times)
- Why the U.S. Considers North Korea's Kim a "Rational Actor" (Wall Street Journal)
- When black holes photobomb a galaxy (Syfy Wire)
What are you reading?
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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”
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