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- Mish Buys A Basket Of Miners
Gold Stock Comments NEM - Newmont Mining: My best value play and weighted accordingly. Price/book is a mere 1.19 and I have no reason to believe book value is overstated. Trailing PE is 10.04 and the dividend yield is 4.10%. What's not to like?...
- David Ferrucci: Life After Watson
Thanks to Andrew for passing this along. To the degree there was a human face of Watson, the “Jeopardy!” computer champion, it was David Ferrucci. He was the I.B.M. researcher who led the development of Watson, an artificial intelligence engine. The...
- Ibm Makes Watson The Size Of A Pizza Box, Starts Offering Cloud Access To Doctors
When the robot uprising is finally underway, you might look back on the year 2011 as the beginning of the end. That was the year IBM’s Watson supercomputer trounced its squishy human opponents on the quiz show Jeopardy. Believe it or not, IBM didn’t...
- Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (tsx:gcm)
For those that may be interested in a more speculative gold play (traded in Canada and on the Pink Sheets under the symbol TPRFF), below is an excerpt from Chris Mayer’s book, World Right Side Up. The book was published in early 2012, so I’m not sure...
- Ibm's Watson And The Healthcare Industry
From the book Cracking the Code: “One such application for Watson could be in the field of medicine; Watson’s virtually limitless data storage capability combined with its incredible recall ability makes it a natural diagnostician. Imagine if Watson’s...
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TEDxVancouver - Nolan Watson - Compassion Kills
Thanks to Shai for passing this along.
After becoming the youngest CFO (age 26) of Silver Wheaton, a multi-billion dollar public company, Watson went on to build Silver Wheaton into the largest metal streaming company in the world. Today, as Chief Executive Officer and President of Sandstorm Gold Ltd. (a $280-million dollar company) and one of Canada's top 40 under 40, Nolan Watson has balanced his time by pursuing both business and humanitarian efforts. In 2004, he founded Nations Cry, an international organization building schools in Sierra Leone, Africa.
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- Mish Buys A Basket Of Miners
Gold Stock Comments NEM - Newmont Mining: My best value play and weighted accordingly. Price/book is a mere 1.19 and I have no reason to believe book value is overstated. Trailing PE is 10.04 and the dividend yield is 4.10%. What's not to like?...
- David Ferrucci: Life After Watson
Thanks to Andrew for passing this along. To the degree there was a human face of Watson, the “Jeopardy!” computer champion, it was David Ferrucci. He was the I.B.M. researcher who led the development of Watson, an artificial intelligence engine. The...
- Ibm Makes Watson The Size Of A Pizza Box, Starts Offering Cloud Access To Doctors
When the robot uprising is finally underway, you might look back on the year 2011 as the beginning of the end. That was the year IBM’s Watson supercomputer trounced its squishy human opponents on the quiz show Jeopardy. Believe it or not, IBM didn’t...
- Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (tsx:gcm)
For those that may be interested in a more speculative gold play (traded in Canada and on the Pink Sheets under the symbol TPRFF), below is an excerpt from Chris Mayer’s book, World Right Side Up. The book was published in early 2012, so I’m not sure...
- Ibm's Watson And The Healthcare Industry
From the book Cracking the Code: “One such application for Watson could be in the field of medicine; Watson’s virtually limitless data storage capability combined with its incredible recall ability makes it a natural diagnostician. Imagine if Watson’s...