Top of mind
It doesn’t auger well
We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
— Carly Simon, Anticipation
I run across posts now and again that find portents of where the market is heading. I don’t know. I’m not a quant, not a head of global economic research for a big wire house, and if I’m so smart how come I’m not rich? But honestly? I have trouble sometimes telling the difference between what these two characters are doing. But, what the hay. Maybe there’s a market for this.
Automated cite checking: so simple, even a lawyer can code it
Well, rough around the edges, but still.
Secret Agents
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke, (1973) Profiles of the future: an inquiry into the limits of the possible (Rev. ed.)