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How to Keep ‘Mr. Market’ from Controlling Your Investments

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Key Takeaways Warren Buffett has often drawn on the concept of a "Mr. Market," as created by his mentor, Benjamin Graham. The "Mr. Market" metaphor is intended to teach you to view market volatility more like a manic partner's mood, rather than as a guide to the real value of stocks. Successful investing often means doing the opposite of the crowd: buying quality businesses when fear drives prices down and selling when fear of missing out (FOMO) pushes them too high. Buffett's most important investment advice often involves a peculiar character investors need to understand: "Mr. Market is there to…

What is Six Kings Slam? And how much will Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz receive for playing?

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Exhibitions are meant to promote the sport and take it to new audiences. Organisers want the best players in the world to feature because they will sell more tickets. Roger Federer played Rafael Nadal in Cape Town in 2020 in front of 51,954 fans - a reported record, external for a tennis crowd at the time, albeit not an official match.Alcaraz - a gifted, highly entertaining shot-maker - plays a lot of exhibitions. He faced Americans Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe in New York and North Carolina respectively at the start of the yearAlcaraz and Tiafoe also took part in…

Matrices can be your Friends.

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Matrices can be your Friends. By Steve Baker What stops most novice graphics programmers from getting friendly with matrices is that they look like 16 utterly random numbers. However, a little mental picture that I have seems to help most people to make sense of what's going on. Most programmers are visual thinkers and don't take kindly to piles of abstract math. Take an OpenGL matrix: float m [ 16 ] ; Consider this as a 4x4 array with it's elements laid out into four columns like this: m[0] m[4] m[ 8] m[12] m[1] m[5] m[ 9] m[13] m[2] m[6]…

Mitsuko Uchida review – enthralling and exhilarating late Beethoven | Classical music

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Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas are a gift for a pianist as adept at balancing the playful and the profound as Mitsuko Uchida. Each is potentially a work of astonishing individual impact, yet they can come together to form something even greater than the sum of their parts.Perhaps it’s in the way that each sonata seems to pick up on and amplify the conflicts, beauties and struggles of the one before. Op 109 came to its close above a low rumble that Uchida made sound like an earthquake – Beethoven must have thought of sound as something to be felt…

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

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Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the janitors mopping in their wake)—deep down at the level of the code, you saw craftsmanship so obsessive that it bordered on insane. Chris Sawyer, the game’s sole developer, wrote the whole thing in assembly.Certain programming languages, like Python or Go or C++, are called “high-level” because they work sort of like human language, written in commands and idioms that might fit in at a poetry slam. Generally speaking,…

England squad to face Australia: Hull KR trio named in Ashes party as Jake Connor misses out

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Hull KR's Grand Final-winning trio Mikey Lewis, Jez Litten and Joe Burgess have all been named in England's final 24-man squad for the autumn Ashes Test series against Australia but there is no place for Super League's Man of Steel winner Jake Connor.Litten's only previous cap arrived against France in 2023, while Burgess, who scored two tries in Hull KR's triumph over Wigan on Saturday, returns to the England set-up after a 10-year absence. But Connor, who was also omitted from the squad get-together in June, has been unable to convince head coach Shaun Wane he deserves a spot amid…

Americans Would Choose Endless Work Over This Surprising Alternative

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Key Takeaways When forced to choose what to sacrifice in retirement, only 15% of Americans would cut the financial support they provide to family members, making it their least preferred option out of nine difficult choices.Americans would rather return to work, skip medical care, or move in with others (22%) than stop helping adult children, grandchildren, or aging parents.For many, family obligation outweighs personal security. When the Alliance for Lifetime Income surveyed Americans about what sacrifices they'd make to stretch retirement savings, reducing family financial support ranked dead last—chosen by only 15% of respondents. That figure is way behind having…

Usman Nurmagomedov: Khabib had me back in gym a week after win over Paul Hughes

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Usman Nurmagomedov chuckles when asked what his cousin Khabib said to him after his hard-fought win over Paul Hughes this month.Nurmagomedov retained his PFL lightweight world title against the Irishman in Dubai, but Khabib, who was in his corner, could be heard screaming at the Russian during some contentious moments in the fight.Nurmagomedov says he is back in the gym despite enjoying only one week of rest after the fight - on Khabib's orders."At first he was so happy and congratulated me," Usman tells BBC Sport."But then he said 'You have to be starting training. Because we don't have time…

American Solar Farms

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Last week, Jake Stid, a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, announced Ground-Mounted Solar Energy in the United States (GM-SEUS). This is a 15K-array, 2.9M-panel dataset of utility and commercial-grade solar farms across the lower 48 states plus the District of Columbia. This dataset was constructed by a team of researchers including alumni from NOAA, NASA and the USGS. Below is a heatmap of the assets catalogued in this dataset. GM-SEUS is broken up into two datasets, one for arrays and another panels. Below you can see a solar farm with the array outlined in red and the panels…

How Hitler’s architect escaped the death penalty

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Speer also claimed to be no different from anyone else in his generation who was seduced by the Nazi leader. "Hitler himself was appearing in a time which was to us young people a time of disillusionment. It was a time, we had no hope for our future, and now a man came and said you shall have hope, we can do it, we can manage it, Germany is prospering again. Of course it was a temptation big enough to think about."AlamySpeer's Cathedral of Light saw hundreds of searchlights piercing the night sky at Nazi Party rallies (Credit: Alamy)But surely…