Week 24 of 2024- W242024
Know when you’re well off
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“Know when you’re well off.” -Warren Buffett
AIML
OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation
Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human
Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta
AI Integration and Modularization
Stressing Over Your Next Home Renovation Project? Let AI Handle It.
Painting
The Great Deep, 1909, Frederick J. Waugh, height: 152.1 cm (59.8 in); width: 182.7 cm (71.9 in), Brooklyn Museum
Markets
Buyers Snap Up Aging and Empty Office Buildings for Deep Discounts
Brazil Thought It Was Safe From Natural Disasters. Then Came the Flood.
‘Poo in the Water’: How Financial Engineering Sullied Britain’s Most Famous River
CrowdStrike, KKR, GoDaddy to join benchmark S&P 500
Why Haven’t Home Prices Dropped?
Is Social Media the New Tobacco?
The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 now make up a record-high 35% of the index
Investors Fear Long Stretch of Calm in Markets Can’t Last
An Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su About Solving Hard Problems
At End of Trump Tax Cuts, Progressives See Leverage to Target the Rich
18 month Gasoline Price Charts
Misc
Warren Buffett's Investment Protégé Grew His Retirement Fund From $70,000 To $264 Million
On being laid off & unplanned entrepreneurship
Cafe Mogador: one of the few things in the East Village that hasn’t really changed
San Diego’s Yoga Crackdown Leaves Yogis Bent Out of Shape
Why a 3-Legged Lion and His Brother Swam Across a Crocodile-Filled River
The World’s Biggest Companies Are Battling in Chess—And They Have Ringers
‘Malevolent’ traits may be key to athletic success, study finds
When Do You Know It Is Time for A New Job?
The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup (2021)
Books
3 books I’ve read and 6 books I want to read