Maybe we can have warp drive after all. At least scientists say it's possible. But anything's possible, I suppose.
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Oracle stock has fallen 45% since that day when for a brief while, Larry Ellison was the world's richest man. Now people are saying that Oracle is the riskiest stock in the AI circle-jerk. I think it's OpenAI, but at least they're private. OpenAI is what's driving all sorts of speculation. There will (likely) always be a need for nVIDIA products. Intel has no where to go but up. Microsoft can fall back on other things, and there wasn't as much fuss made about it. Meta is also struggling on its own. Neither it, nor Apple, is really part of the AI circle-jerk. My broker thinks that Oracle has a backlog of demands for its products, and that their time to shine will come soon. Hope that's true.
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Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States. Well, some of them are, and if you read the article, it's mainly the crypto guys. They want the freedom to manipulate the fiat currency, which tells me that this is why you should stay away. Imagine if the Federal Reserve wanted to flee the U.S. so it could manipulate the dollar in ways you can't begin to understand. Do you understand the Fusaka Upgrade? No? If you're invested in Ethereum, you'd better understand it, because those that do may be adjusting things to their advantage.
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Decoding the Zodiac's Z32 Cipher: A Computational Solution and Satellite Discovery. The Zodiac killer posted a threat about a buried bomb somewhere, and left clues. One person thinks he knows the region alluded to, and it has a weird unexplained geographical feature. Intriguing.
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Why is South Korean fertility so low? Theories abound. But it's strange that nearby Japan also suffers from this low birthrate problem. Even China does, too, although China has had different factors, like a sex imbalance. What's going on in Asia?
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Interesting article on how the prediction market, Kalshi, was developed. You'd think that we already had prediction markets (Predict-It and Polymarket). Why do we need another? Kalshi did come out of the blue.
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Apple has a hidden LLM built into the Mac, called Foundational Models, and if you know Swift, you can use if for simple stuff.
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Manufacturing weakness a drag on Oregon unemployment numbers. It was mainly just Intel.
“Contrast that with healthcare and social assistance which has been growing super fast the past three years,”
Healthcare growth has just been nurses unions. Not much any real growth. And I don't think social assistance counts as an industry.
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