Ruban
Ruban
Ruban
Essays and curated links on science, technology, finance, and whatever else catches my interest.
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How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is powering the AI revolution. Huang was relentlessly bullied. “The way you described Chinese people back then was ‘Chinks’” Huang told me, with no...
The Irish logarithm. Why the culture wins: an appreciation of Iain Banks. Consider Weber’s famous diagnosis of modernity, as producing “specialists without spirit, sensualists...
Should you cut your loses early, and let your profits run? Book review: The laws of trading. Bell Labs developed a syllabus of graduate-level courses and taught it to any...
Lessons from ‘The Years of Lyndon Johnson’ by Robert Caro. If, however, the senator said his constituency would not permit him to give that support, that if he gave Kennedy the...
Bill Gates has perfected managerial philanthropy. From 2014 through 2019, the Gates Foundation earned around $28.5 billion in investment income while giving away $23.5 billion...
Hayek and Schmitt on the ‘depoliticization’ of the economy. Vietnam’s red Napoleon. How do I draw a pair of buttocks? Childhoods of exceptional people. Russell commented that...
Life of Qian Xuesen. Iranian man who didn’t wash for half a century dies at 94. But, local media say, Amou Haji finally succumbed to pressure and washed a few months ago… He...
An introduction to current theories of consciousness. Britain is in trouble because its elite is so engrossed with the US. It is the culmination of decades of (unreciprocated)...
World’s oldest tree reveals the largest solar storm in history. Legalising recreational marijuana decreases a state’s birth rate by an average of 2.78%. He dropped out to become...