🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-10-27
This week's Hot Fudge covers market insights, AI in farming, and quirky stories from the web.
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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-10-21
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things at the closing bell on Monday.
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-10-22
Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + 🥬 If (big if?) robots can be directed by CV/AI/ML to do the weeding, will it change farm labor to favor well capitalized industrial farming? Or, would this provide the ability for more farms with greater diversity to be practical? If so, does this mean the need for weed killing chemicals in agriculture diminishes or goes away?
Techmeme: Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
By Taylor Soper / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
💰 + 💊 If wet lab science and AI were applied in equal measure, does this shorten the timeline to achieve impact from innovation? Does harnessing AI provide safer and faster time to market for small molecule inhibitors targeting proteins associated with certain form of cancer?
Techmeme: Terray Therapeutics, which uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development, raised a $120M Series B led by Bedford Ridge Capital and Nvidia's NVentures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
By Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-10-23
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere
Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.
xkcd: Temperature Scales
Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up. | Quanta Magazine
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
Goldfish crackers changes name to Chilean Sea Bass for adult appeal
The beloved Goldfish crackers new name will temporarily be Chilean Sea Bass Crackers, the brand announced Wednesday.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-10-24
Back in 2011, the notion of a $25 computer was of keen interest.
Techmeme: Why a $25 PC? Because it's the price of a textbook (Matthew Humphries/Geek.com)
This story, by Matthew Humphries / Geek.com, appeared on Techmeme.
Now, the Raspberry Pi is going in AI directions with a price of $110 for a 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) capability.
Techmeme: Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper (Les Pounder/Tom's Hardware)
By Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-10-25
Last week I was a delegate for Cloud Field Day 21 and my newsletter updates were delayed due to time commitments.
One story that caught my eye this week. Yet another venture capital (VC) firm has taken on an investment adviser persona.
The likely potential for collisions, competition, cooperation, and collaboration between VCs and Private Equity (PE) will continue to rise.
Techmeme: Accel registers with the US SEC as an investment adviser to tap private markets, joining Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and other VC firms that made a similar move (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-10-26
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping (Wall Street Journal)
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
By Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (Associated Press)
From Associated Press. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
By Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)
By David Shepardson / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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