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Jim Sanger

@JimSanger

VC & PE Investor. Author. Data geek.

 New York, NY / Greenwich, CT
Joined July 2011
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Big tech equals big moves … as of last Friday, NASDAQ 100 has moved up or down by at least 1% on 73% of trading days this year, highest share since tech bust in early 2000s ⁦@Bloomberg⁩
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He lost his arm in an accident. A new surgery and a bionic prosthetic are giving him back unprecedented control. bostonglobe.com/2022/03/31/m… via @BostonGlobe (by @michaelblanding ... featuring @hughherr / @medialab)
He lost his arm in an accident. A new surgery and a bionic prosthetic are giving him back unprece...

He lost his arm in an accident. A new surgery and a bionic prosthetic are giving him back unprece...

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation. "My dream as a scientist is that a person with an arm amputation could play a Beethoven piece at normal speeds and...

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Dearth of merger targets so far this year for #SPACs @Dealogic @FT
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If you love exploring the beautiful patterns that underpin mathematics, don't miss @barrysmyth's gorgeous visualizations of a hundred 1/n fractions. buff.ly/3LqKg5e
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Congratulations to the greatest of all time.
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@svpino15 Jan 2021
Code in notebooks doesn't change the world. Models in production do.
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A very long-term look at massive climb for U.S. stock & bond markets, nominal GDP & M2 money supply (as of Q3) @biancoresearch @Bloomberg [Past performance is no guarantee of future results]
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Tech companies have told me several times that their research divisions have academic independence -- a position that's increasingly difficult to defend reuters.com/article/us-alpha…
Google told its scientists to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research - documents

Google told its scientists to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research - documents

Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its...

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Sweden has admitted that their strategy was a mistake, names schools as a major driver of spread, and closes all high schools until end of January.
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@DrKatrin_Rabiei18 Dec 2020
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From 24th of December: 🔔only 4 persons can gather at a restaurant 🔔No alcohol sale from 20.00 🔔Maximum number of people at shopping centers, shops & gyms. 🔔Use of 😷 during certain hours in public transport 🔔High schools closed until 24th of January
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We were all worried about Skynet. Meanwhile, nunchuck bears.
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Telehealth use has skyrocketed during the outbreak—and the trend is probably here to stay. #FortuneHealth bit.ly/30zwuYS

How the pandemic has transformed the telehealth industry forever | Fortune

Health care leaders from across the country said that the telemedicine revolution in the midst of COVID-19 is here to stay during a call with Fortune Brainstorm Health.

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Harvard University asking employees to consider early retirement, giving up vacation and reducing work hours as it faces a massive revenue shortfall bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Harvard Offers Staff Early Retirement to Reduce Expenses

Harvard Offers Staff Early Retirement to Reduce Expenses

Harvard University is asking employees to consider a series of voluntary measures, including early retirement, giving up vacation and reducing work hours as it faces a revenue shortfall of $1.2...

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@WIRED7 Jun 2020
“In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline ... Once that decline begins, it will never end.” wired.trib.al/2GyBU9s

The World Might Actually Run Out of People

The United Nations predicts that the global population will soon explode. In Empty Planet, John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker argue they're dead wrong.

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@paulg5 Jun 2020
The coronavirus doesn't care that we've gotten tired of worrying about it.
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Leaked documents show what Goldman Sachs really thinks of Bitcoin bit.ly/3dHicZW
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@zaibatsu6 Jun 2020
Nature’s cosmic hard drive? Black holes could store information like holograms. Theoretical black holes are ideal toy models for thought experiments in quantum gravity arstechnica.com/?p=1681217&u… #Science #Space
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@theScore5 Jun 2020
Alexis Ohanian co-founder of reddit and Serena Williams’ husband resigns. He’s urged reddit to fill his seat with a black candidate. He’s also pledging $1M toward @Kaepernick7’s Know Your Rights Camp. 🙏 (🎥: @alexisohanian)
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Morgan Stanley warns the US is failing to contain the coronavirus and it raises the risk that a second wave is looming businessinsider.com/morgan-s…
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Unemployment Rate Dips as May Jobs Numbers Rebound | by @KennyHerzog entm.ag/qye1
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@WIRED5 Jun 2020
Go to sleep. Your brain will thank you. Seriously. wired.trib.al/50JGqxj
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