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• SCVNGR – Interactive Mobile Gaming – DreamIT Funding Day  »TechAddress –

• The PayPal mafia – Nov. 14, 2007 –
• DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class –

I was at the DreamIt funding day demos today (which was great) and I was talking with some of the guys about the Singularity. Most of them didn’t know what it is, but a few of them did. Still, the ones that knew about it didn’t totally buy into it – they said it hadn’t really made an impact on their day-to-day decisions. I told them that it has totally changed my thinking.
And so now I am reading this article about Peter Thiel, and “the Paypal Mafia”, and I read this quote from Elon Musk:

“Peter, Max, and I are not directly aligned philosophically,” he says. “Peter’s philosophy is pretty odd. It’s not normal. He’s a contrarian from an investing standpoint and thinks a lot about the singularity. I’m much less excited about that. I’m pro-human.”

That made me laugh.
Peter also has a hedge fund, Clarium Capital, which is doing really well. He’s also a tournament chess master (currently rated 2287 USCF and 2199 FIDE). He hasn’t really played recently – his last big match was the 104th US Open in LA 5 years ago – but it looks like he only played two games and then dropped out (he won both of the games).
The oldest tournament record that USCF has for Thiel is the Mc Ilrath Memorial in Burlingame, CA way back in 1992. He went 5-0 to take clear 1st place.
By the way, I totally agree with his view of chess:

“Taken too far, chess can become an alternate reality in which one loses sight of the real world,” he says. “My chess ability was roughly at the limit. Had I become any stronger, there would have been some massive tradeoffs with success in other domains in life.”

I think it is a great tool for analytical thinking and strategy training. But it takes a lot of time and thought and eventually you need to be productive and put away the pieces and apply that training. Plus, there’s no money in it. And computers are way better. But it is great for children and young adults and it is a very beautiful game.

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• Op-Ed Contributor – Rich Man’s Burden – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com – Since 1980, the number of men in the bottom fifth of the income ladder who work long hours (over 49 hours per week) has dropped by half, according to a study by the economists Peter Kuhn and Fernando Lozano. But among the top fifth of earners, long weeks have increased by 80 percent.
• OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet – Ted Dziuba – "We have had a solution to this problem for decades: using the same God damned username and password for every website that needs them." – hilarious

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• eigenclass – Elo ratings for the Benchmarks Game (aka Great Computer Language Shootout) –
• Biomarkers reveal our biological age –
• Free Will versus the Programmed Brain: Scientific American –
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• Scientists unmask brain’s hidden potential –
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• Researchers link cocoa flavanols to improved brain blood flow –
• Next Big Future: Aubrey de Grey Interview at betterhumans –
• The Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership > Home – October 25 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA
• Tech Making Traditional VCs Obsolete – In fact, technology is largely at fault both for what's wrong with the V.C. world and for what's replacing it. The problem with the industry is this–it's just too cheap to start new companies these days.
• The Digital War on Poverty – We are entering the Age of Abundance
• Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker – By building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management
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• Bill Gates predicts software revolution –
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• **** Offizielle DSCHINGHIS KHAN Site **** –
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Installing the new Wordpress broke my automatic blog postings of the new all-time highs and lows, and I don’t have time to fix it now, so I’m just going to stop. The lists will continue to be updated correctly with all the stocks that make new all-time highs and lows – it just won’t post the number to the front page. You can also see these stocks lists (along with the list of the top 100 alpha stocks) on your iphone here. And you can also download a csv file of the lists here and here.
The lists will continue to update daily – they just will no longer post to the front page.

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