1) Bloomberg Best (and Worst) (Bloomberg) - Awesome new research tool from Bloomberg. This is seriously cool and very comprehensive. Going to help a lot of us find a jumping off point for analysis.
2) Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again (Rolling Stone) - Taibbi's latest. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The bank lobby never ceases to amaze me.
3) The Beauty of Bounded Gaps (Slate) - Quant porn here, but very cool. Prime numbers are neither random, nor very rare. And now it appears they can be no further apart than 70 million digits on the number line. Try wrapping your noggin around that.
4) Google-Berg: Global Elite Transforms Itself For Technocratic Revolution (InfoWars) - Is Google just a front for the Bilderbergs? You gotta admit, there's a lot of crazy coincidences here. Been awhile since we've had any tinfoil hat stuff on the Bonus Bananas.
5) Are People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests (Huffington Post) - You only have to walk down the street to answer this question. Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to which species is gonna take over when we finally exit stage left.
6) Florida, nation await $590.5M Powerball winner (USA Today) - This is why I don't play the lottery. If I won over a half a billion dollars, I'd be the worst human on the planet.
7) Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views (Mail Online) - Get swole and vote Republican. I hear they're thinking about running
in 2016.8) Water Tower in Chelsea Manifests a Secret Life (NY Times) - I've heard of underground clubs, but this is ridiculous.
9) 'The Hangover 3' Reviews Are in, and They Make for a Mountain of Pans (The Atlantic Wire) - I guess we should have expected this. So the movie absolutely sucks. At least we've got these hilarious reviews to chuckle at.
10) Man sets up video camera to catch ghosts, films girlfriend and 16-year-old son having sex (NY Post) - See #5 above.
Video of the Week:
The only thing sadder than a 40-year old stripper is playing a 40-year old stripper in a movie (unless you're Marisa Tomei in the Wrestler, in which case you're supposed to evoke pity). Be that as it may, this movie looks hilarious. I actually guffawed at the tarantula scene (wait for it...). Jason Sudeikis is a seriously funny dude, and who wouldn't want to wife swap with Ron Swanson? Plus feeding a dolphin to your pet orca is the new killing it. Enjoy:
That's it for this week, guys. Have a tremendous weekend and let me know what you think about this week's Banana's in the comments!
Once I get my hands on a copy of Zhang's paper I might try to do a breakdown of it, maybe with the help of some of the other math guys on here. I think it'd be pretty cool for some people who have never seen elegant proofs to see one of the most popular ones in recent history.
Please do!
Can someone explain to me how the hell Rachel is still as hot as ever??
Her real name's Jennifer ;)
Hahaha when you get paid big money to look good you tend to stay looking good. She may be older, but there aren't many women higher than her on my "which celebrity would I like to bang" list. Maybe it's cuz I've watched every episode of Friends like 10 times.
Actually, I was able to pull Zhang's paper up on my phone and it is a 56 page PDF and is ridiculously ridiculously complicated and in depth. There is no chance you could get through and understand this without a PhD.
56 pages! Doesn't sound so elegant :)
You are killin' it with your comment on (10) - what a wonderful planet...
People have been worried about everyone growing stupider every year since the beginning of time. That's what's truly wonderful....
lol the zhang paper is out of reach except for people who have years of training in that field (analytic number theory)
it's really amazing though, the guy had true dedication
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