Posts by Marcellino Nehme
How To Accept The Things You Cannot Change, Like The Pandemic
There is a prayer, often linked with Alcoholic’s Anonymous (AA), called the serenity prayer, which reads: “…grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” The words are repeated regularly in meetings and the concept helps those in…
Read MoreWhy Is Gold Rising?
Real interest rates are falling. This makes the most intuitive sense. Gold doesn’t yield anything because it doesn’t produce any income or profits. But bond yields in developed countries across the globe aren’t much better than the 0% yield in gold. The dollar is falling. Gold is its own animal as an asset class…
Read MoreHow to read more books
Spend time thinking about why you want to read more books. The more motivation you have, the more likely you are to succeed. Start out reading books you enjoy, and don’t be afraid to quit books you don’t like. Lay the groundwork for your new reading habit by making books salient in the physical…
Read MoreResearchers seek to advance predictive AI for engineers with CAD model data set
Artificial intelligence appears poised to augment or replace human artists in some cases. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are training a robot to pick up painting techniques by watching humans, and last month MIT researchers introduced a generative model that predicts how humans paint landscape art by training AI with YouTube videos of people painting. Now a…
Read MoreThe Greatest Danger Investors Face
Benjamin Graham described Wall Street as a “madhouse” and said the stock market “resembles a huge laundry at which institutions take in large blocks of each other’s wash without true rhyme or reason. ”The problem with our industry, Graham insisted, is not speculation per see; speculation has always been part of the market and always…
Read MoreSeven Secrets to Success: Patience, Purpose, Perseverance, Pain, Planning, Pep and Positivity
Read about a young woman’s determined pursuit of her life’s ambition to become a doctor. Despite many setbacks and roadblocks, she kept her eye on her cherished goal to gain entry into medical school. “I want to be a doctor!” Zeynep proclaimed time and time again since her childhood. Here she shares her seven secrets…
Read MoreAmericans Who Mainly Get Their News on Social Media Are Less Engaged, Less Knowledgeable
A new Pew Research Center analysis of surveys conducted between October 2019 and June 2020 finds that those who rely most on social media for political news stand apart from other news consumers in a number of ways. These U.S. adults, for instance, tend to be less likely than other news consumers to closely follow…
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