This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media spend to the $22.25 million spent in 200 … | Continue reading
Donald Trump says constantly, “I’m NOT a politician.” It makes sense. Voters hate politicians. Look at the chart below from the current Gallup poll of confidence in American institutions and you’ll see the “institution” of Congress is dead last on the list. Only 8% of those surve … | Continue reading
The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading
Bradley Hays ist Postdoktorand am Computer Science And Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) am MIT und hat eine KI geschrieben, die sich dem Deep Learning widmet. Das neurale Netzwerk lernt die Sprache von US-Präsidentschaftsaspirant, Mogul un... | Continue reading
What happens when you use one of the closest things we have to an AI — a Recurrent Neural Network or RNN — and feed it a steady diet of Trump's speeches and debate transcripts? You're about to find out. The @DeepDrumpf Twitterbot, a project by Bradley Hayes, a postdoctoral resear … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has reassured America about his alleged hand size. At an officially sanctioned Republican presidential debate tonight, Trump responded to provocative remarks made by Senator Marco Rubio earlier this week. Continue reading… | Continue reading
If you think Donald Trump says crazy things, just wait until you get a glimpse of his Twitter bot likeness. Dubbed ‘Deep Drumpf’ (after John Oliver’s recent dismantling of Trump), the project was a creation of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) postdoc … | Continue reading
Two years ago, in an issue of the Hammock Idea Email, I wrote about research into why people aren’t convinced when presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, is false. As Donald Trump’s supporters are exhibiting such a pattern — even he admitted it with t … | Continue reading
In November of 2015, Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg created a Twitter bot that posted quotes from the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who created the facist party. The bot’s tweets were Mussolini quotes attributed to Donald Trump, the thinking being: thi … | Continue reading
Ask supporters of Donald Trump what they like about the Republican candidate and you'll hear it's his ability to say what's on his mind. He has no filter. He's not beholden to corporate interests. He hates and maligns and stereotypes freely. He is not politically correct. So it m … | Continue reading
Tired of the establishment blockchain calling the shots? Looking for new blood that will make the blockchain great again? Fear not! Donald Trump will make the blockchain great again. Take it from Trumpchain. It takes a U.S. election to bring out the easy answers to our serious … | Continue reading
Can real estate mogul and United States presidential contender Donald Trump make bitcoin great again? | Continue reading
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that it’s time for all of us to boycott Apple. “I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just th … | Continue reading
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the Uni … | Continue reading
Donald Trump today called for a boycott of Apple following the company’s refusal to help the FBI unlock data from the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidate declared, “I think what you ought to do is boycott A … | Continue reading
At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's S … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the Donald Trump and inequality, then FANG, Aggregation Theory, and Disruption. This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront. See recommended portfolios and get up to $15,000 managed for free by visiting Wealthfront.com/exponent. Links Michael Brendan: How an Ob … | Continue reading