According to Polymarket, Eileen Higgins is slated to be the next mayor of #Miami . She will be the first democrat since 2009 to hold that position marking a shifting tide in Miami politics.

As a data scientist, the future terrifies me. Every post you've ever made about your health, beliefs, politics, your tone, is a data point. AI sees them as a piece of a puzzle, and it's building a complete picture of who you are, and even worse, who it might want to paint you to be.

#Palantir !!! Had an interview with the amazing Dennis Tardan about a Gray Files #podcast episode I did on #AlexKarp and Palantir in July. We really go deep into some of the concerns about the making of a surveillance state, and loss of freedoms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPT...

Deep dive into Alex Karp's vision, the ethical tightrope of AI in national security, and the critical questions around #TechEthics & #DemocraticGovernance. Are we building freedom or its opposite? Read more: erikabarker.ai/data-analysi... #Palantir #AISurveillance #NationalSecurity #DataScience

Inside #Palantir: AI, Surveillance, and the Mind of Alex Karp www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXv...

Early April 2025 saw a 64% decline in ocean container bookings from China to the U.S., a collapse that can translate into retail shortages within a month or two

Black Mirror season 7 has me canceling all of my subscriptions

I believe institutional #algotrading is going to become a hot button topic this year. Short squeezing the market is going to get a lot of unwanted attention, and anger from pension funds and 401ks.

The problem with AI, Blockchain, & Quantum Computing isn’t the tech, it’s us. We’re so obsessed with the next big payday that we forget why any of this matters in the first place. We’ve stopped asking, “What can this actually do for the world?” & started asking, “How fast will this go to the moon?”

Rest in Peace #fivethirtyeight

This is legit terrifying

Are you curious about the gray areas of Economics, Technology, and Future probabilities based on data science? Well, I have a new podcast for you that dives into the nuance of all these areas to paint a larger picture for a deeper understanding of these subjects: grayfiles.podbean.com

#deepseek provided me a great in-depth answer, and then it vanished and was censored.

The velocity of money measures how efficiently money circulates in the #economy. A higher velocity signals a healthy economy, a strong middle class, and shared prosperity. Think of it like blood circulation in the body: the better it flows, the healthier the body. #Finance #Economics

West Virginia, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, & Tennessee lead the nation in Death to Births Ratio. The common thread is the increasing financial distress among residents in these states.

#Florida has a major ticking time-bomb, and it's not a housing crisis. Young adults aged 20-29 are leaving the state in droves. With fewer young adults, industries reliant on younger workers such as tech, hospitality, healthcare, and education may face talent shortages, impacting economic growth.

Checkout this great podcast I had with Dennis Tardan about Quantum Computers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m7G...

A 2024 survey by QuEra found that a majority of respondents (56%) believed quantum computers would begin to show a clear economic advantage by 2026. #quantumcomputers

Low interest rates seem great at first: cheaper borrowing, more spending, everyone's happy, right? It's not that simple. Inflation can skyrocket, making everything more expensive. Asset bubbles form & then burst, causing market chaos. Investors take wild risks, and we end up with a financial crisis

Some technical indicators suggest investors believe U.S. Treasury bonds are set to rise in value. Why? Falling interest rates boost bond prices and make them attractive for steady income. Economic uncertainty or global trouble often drives investors to the safety of Treasuries.

Quantum Computing is not 10-15 years away. It’s Here Now! erikabarker.ai/tech/quantum...

Hear me out: If I was a VC or some Silicon Valley business person looking for an opportunity, now would be the most ideal time to reboot #Myspace.

Why you should really keep an eye on Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT) this year in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI spaces. erikabarker.ai/tech/why-gra...

An intriguing new evolutionary story has just dropped, from my friend and colleague Leif Andersson: a discrete population of large predatory herring in the Baltic Sea, apparently in the process of evolving into a new species. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ArtBasel #Miami is here, and the #UBSreport does not tell everything. I built an app in Python using APIs to get data from the Federal Reserve, News Outlets, and the stock market to make a blended analysis and utilize ML to predict what awaits the #ArtMarket in 2025. Here is what it said:

Love how taxes are so simple today with all the software, and even me having a wonderful CPA. However, my stupid brain can think of and program a piece of software to do something incredibly complicated, but I struggle to sit down and deal with Intuit which might take me around 2 hours

When I first joined Facebook in 2004, it was a place for sharing photos, ideas, and short blog posts. There was a sense of stoicism then. The content suggested a future where humanity would raise its collective intellect, solve world hunger & disease, achieve world peace, & even explore the cosmos

US Industrial Production shows steady growth since 1950, but check out those 6 major anomalies! The biggest? COVID crash in 2020. What's wild is how quickly we bounced back. 70+ years of upward trend with current production ~100% above baseline. Data doesn't lie - USA keeps making more.

Cracking a 19th-century math mystery could propel quantum computing and AI to new heights. Solving the Riemann Hypothesis might open doors to technological advancements we've only dreamed of.

Did you know the Riemann Hypothesis has baffled mathematicians for over 160 years? If solved, it could reveal a hidden pattern in prime numbers, potentially transforming cryptography, AI, quantum computing, and even medicine!

Imagine unlocking a secret that makes the internet safer and revolutionizes drug discovery. That's the potential impact of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics involving prime numbers.

First post back. It's nice to be on a social network where one can find a bit of stoicism and curious minds.

Yay! Here is my first post!