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IBM Scientists Replicate Brain On The Chip

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Does Sarah Connor know about this? On a more serious note, I find this fascinating….

Scientists have developed a brain inspired computer chip which mimics the neurons inside your brain.

The chip consumes just 70 milliwatts of power and can perform 46 billion synaptic operations per second.

Since 2008, scientists from IBM have been working with DARPA’s Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) programme.

They have developed the chip, or processor called TrueNorth, which is claimed to be efficient, scalable, and flexible non-von Neumann architecture using contemporary silicon technology.

TrueNorth has 5.4-billion-transistors with 4096 neurosynaptic cores interconnected via an intrachip network that integrates 1 million programmable spiking neurons and 256 million configurable synapses.

It can be tiled in two dimensions through an interchip communication interface and can be scaled up to a cortexlikesheet of arbitrary size.

The chip has been fabricated on Samsung’s 28nm process and claimed to be IBM’s largest chip in terms of transistor count.

During the simulation of complex recurrent neural networks, the chip consumes less than 100mW of power and has a power density of 20mW / cm2.

IBM fellow Dharmendra Modha said: “Unlike the prevailing von Neumann architecture — but like the brain — TrueNorth has a parallel, distributed, modular, scalable, fault-tolerant, flexible architecture that integrates computation, communication, and memory and has no clock.

“It is fair to say that TrueNorth completely redefines what is now possible in the field of brain-inspired computers, in terms of size, architecture, efficiency, scalability, and chip design techniques.”

The chip can be used in many applications that use complex neural networks in real time including multi-object detection and classification.

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Is Everyone Too Bearish?

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Open up any financial media outlet and you will see it full of bearish articles or forecasts. For instance, Investors haven’t hated the US stock market this much since 2007

This marked the sixth-straight month that fund managers were net underweight the US stock market, the longest stretch since 2007 in the run-up to the financial crisis.

Yet, most indices are sitting one quick rally away from setting new all time highs. What gives or how will this “net bearish sentiment” play out?

I believe there are two distinct possibilities.

  1. A fairly substantial stock market rally. To dispel today’s bearish sentiment.
  2. A substantial decline and/or an outright crash. To allow the market to catch up to today’s sentiment and other structural/technical divergences we are witnessing.

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What Is Wrong With This Stock Market?

Daily Chart August 18 2015

8/18/2015 – A down day with the Dow Jones down 33 points (-0.19%) and the Nasdaq down 32 points (-0.64%) 

Investors are beginning to realize that there is something seriously wrong with the stock market. Mainstream financial media is starting to pickup on that as well.

Stock market bulls are playing with fire

By this measure, the current stock market is anything but healthy. The 10-week moving average of weekly readings recently rose to 5.7%, well above the level that many researchers use as the threshold for a “sell” signal. (Fosback, for example, set this threshold at 5%, considering readings above that level as evidence of “extreme market divergence and … bearish.” The threshold employed by Ned Davis Research, the Venice, Florida-based research firm, is 4.4%.)

That is indeed the case. Further, I have shown this chart before…..

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Considering the analysis above, there are only two distinct outcomes at this stage. Either the stock market and/or our economic data stages a massive come back rally (I don’t see how nor why) -OR- the stock market is about to play catch up with economic reality. Unfortunately for all of us, there is quite a bit of ground to cover on the downside.

By the way, Marc Faber sees the same thing….

This conclusion is further supported by my mathematical and timing work. It clearly shows a severe bear market between 2015-2017. In fact, when it starts it will very quickly retrace most of the gains accrued over the last few years.  If you would be interested in learning when the bear market of 2015-2017 will start (to the day) and its internal composition, please CLICK HERE.

(***Please Note: A bear market might have started already, I am simply not disclosing this information. Due to my obligations to my Subscribers I am unable to provide you with more exact forecasts. In fact, I am being “Wishy Washy” at best with my FREE daily updates here. If you would be interested in exact forecasts, dates, times and precise daily coverage, please Click Here). Daily Stock Market Update. August 18th, 2015  InvestWithAlex.com

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Why California Is Like Pets.com

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Worst fire season in California’s history is underway, severe drought and high taxes. Yet, if you live on the coast, most people could care less. For now. Real estate is back to where it was at 2006 peak and 2007/2009 economic collapse is nothing but a distant memory.

Our friends at DHB have an interesting take on the whole thing. Why California loves taxes, stock bubbles, and housing bubbles: State and county assessed property values up to $4.918 trillion, up 6 percent from last year.

The state of California has a tax structure that is inherently in favor of stock and asset bubbles.  The biggest sources of income tax for the state include personal income tax, corporate tax, and sales tax.  These sources are completely dependent on the health of the overall economy and can turn on a dime.

I would also argue that California has been one of the primary beneficiaries of the FED’s insane monetary policies since 2008/09 bottom. In other words, California is like a highly speculative stock (Netflix, Facebook, Tesla, etc..) while the rest of the US is more like a slow moving index fund. The problem is, speculative stocks tend to collapse. I have written about it before. San Francisco: The Most Insane City In America?

If you live in California, start putting your house in order. To be more specific, 1. Don’t touch California’s real estate with a ten foot pole (at today’s prices – unless you are a seller) and 2. Make sure you have job security. Some sort of a storm is coming.

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Is Gold About To Fly?

Marc Faber thinks so. And while his view has been severly challenged, he believes that is about to change. At the very least, Marc believes you should be diversified into gold at today’s “give away” prices.

Finally, given today’s global currencies devaluation, it is just a matter of time before the dollar declines. A large commercial short interest against the dollar (COT Reports) is confirming this view. Take a look at the video below. It is worth 2 minutes of your time.

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Paul Krugman: Slams China’s, Praises America’s Ponzi Finance

Daily Chart August 17 2015

8/17/2015 – A positive day with the Dow Jones up 68 points (+0.39%) and the Nasdaq up 43 points (+0.86%) 

Sometimes you just have to throw your hands up in the air and say…”What”? Paul Krugman believes that Chinese officials are ill equipped to run a proper Ponzi Scheme. Yet, the FED is doing it perfectly.  Bungling Beijing’s Stock Markets

The New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote today about increased concerns that the crony capitalists who run the Chinese economy simply don’t know what they’re doing. “Their zigzagging policies over the past few months have been worrying,” he noted, asking “i]s it possible that after all these years Beijing still doesn’t get how this ‘markets’ thing works?”

Apparently, the answer is “yes,” as he demonstrates that the government fundamentally misunderstands basics like the ratio of consumption to production. It attempted to float its economy through infrastructure spending — a sound idea — but did so “by funneling cheap credit to state-owned enterprises,” resulting in them taking on debt — which isn’t quite so sound an idea.

Fair enough. And how is this different from the FED funneling cheap credit to the US Corporations. Companies that should have failed in 2008/2009. And then flooding our entire financial system with massive amount of liquidity that went towards malinvestment and share buybacks. I don’t get it. He goes on…

Next, China adopted an official policy of boosting stock prices, combining a stock-buying propaganda campaign with relaxed margin requirements, making it easier to buy stocks with borrowed money. The goal may have been to help out those state-owned enterprises, which could pay down debt by selling stock. But the consequence was an obvious bubble, which began deflating earlier this year.

Again, Mr. Krugman, how is this different from what the FED did? Zero interest rates for over 6 years now and over $1 Trillion in QE. That led directly to share buybacks, speculation and the stock market bubble that we are witnessing today. Finally……

If they really don’t (know what they are doing), that’s a big concern. China is an economic superpower — not quite as super as the United States or the European Union, yet, but big enough to matter a lot. And it’s facing tough times. So if its leadership is really as clueless as it has been looking lately, that bodes ill, not just for China, but for the world as a whole.

At least something we can agree on. The whole world is following the same playbook. Juice the stock market and the economy NOW, worry about it later or when things begin to blow up. Well, it appears they are beginning to blow up. In China first, then here. And indeed, that bodes ill for the world as a whole.

This conclusion is further supported by my mathematical and timing work. It clearly shows a severe bear market between 2015-2017. In fact, when it starts it will very quickly retrace most of the gains accrued over the last few years.  If you would be interested in learning when the bear market of 2015-2017 will start (to the day) and its internal composition, please CLICK HERE.

(***Please Note: A bear market might have started already, I am simply not disclosing this information. Due to my obligations to my Subscribers I am unable to provide you with more exact forecasts. In fact, I am being “Wishy Washy” at best with my FREE daily updates here. If you would be interested in exact forecasts, dates, times and precise daily coverage, please Click Here). Daily Stock Market Update. August 14th, 2015  InvestWithAlex.com

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Big Boys Initiate Tesla (TSLA) Distribution Sequence

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On May 18th, just a day before Apple (AAPL) set in an important top, I have warned people on this blog about the big boys initiating a distribute sequence on the company. Here is the link: Alert: Smart Money Is Trying To Distribute Apple (AAPL) To Fools

Now, Tesla (TSLA) is getting the same treatment. Morgan Stanley Hikes Price Target on Tesla

In a note this morning, Jonas has increased the price target for Tesla to $465 from $280 (the stock is currently at about $243). The key reason behind this is what he calls “Tesla Mobility, an app-based, on-demand mobility service.” The race for autonomous driving is nothing new, with tech giants such as Apple and Google also making a push in this realm, but the report says Tesla is well positioned to get large market share. Jonas is telling clients that “Tesla is uniquely positioned, in our view, to solve the biggest flaw in the auto industry, <4% utilization, via an app-based, on-demand mobility service.”

Blah, blah, blah……and I am well position to die at some point over the next 50-75 years. Don’t believe the hype and don’t be fooled by the big boys. This is what DISTRIBUTION looks like.

Here is the real story behind Tesla (TSLA) Tesla Motors Raises Offering to About 2.7 Million Shares Overpriced, over hyped, losing money, needs additional capital, etc… Such stocks tend to get decimated to the tune of 50-90% in bear markets. Which is coming.

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Investment Grin Of The Day

Three yogis were eating their lunch on the seventeenth-floor girder of a new skyscraper. They were working on their bodies, talking about it continuously, discovering new mysteries. “Wow,” said the second man, who was new. “I see why you guys like to eat your lunch here. The view of the city is beautiful!”

“Yes, the view is nice,” said the first man. “But do you want to know why we really like to eat lunch here?” “Yes,” said the new yogi. “Well,” explained the first, “there’s the most incredible updraft right at the fourth floor, and when we finish lunch we like to jump off and ride back up on that air current. It puts you right back on the very spot you jumped from.”

“BS!” said the second man. “I don’t believe you.”

“You don’t?” said the first, putting down his coffee thermos. “Then I’ll show you.” He jumped. Down he went, and sure enough, right at the fourth floor — whoosh! He was turned back and landed on the seventeenth-floor girder on the exact spot from which he had leaped.

“Wow!” said the second man in total amazement. “That beats the hell out of hanggliding or anything! Let me do it next!”

He stood up and jumped. Down he went — then fourth floor, third floor, second floor… splat! All over the sidewalk! Finished!

Back up on the seventeenth floor, the third man, who had been silent until now, turned to the first and said, “You know, Superman, sometimes you’re a real prick!”

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