This is something that will happen as long as the sun rises from the East. The Bad NewsĬryptocurrency prices are going to crash. Just the same way that the MMM pyramid scheme used Naira does not equate MMM with Naira. These schemes are done using Bitcoins, but note that these schemes are not Bitcoins. The pyramids will collapse one day, and you will be left with the short end of the stick. Please note that these are pyramid schemes. There are a lot of schemes out there that promise some kind of Bitcoin payouts if you buy Bitcoins and invest in their schemes. Know this and know peace then construct your portfolio accordingly.īefore we go on, I need to point something out real quick. Therein lies the risk - an asset that can gain over 2,900% in just under a year can easily lose 99% of its value in just one week. There is no widespread and easily accessible asset that has done this well, except a couple of other cryptocurrencies. In just about a year, the currency is now selling at $15,500. Now, we are all caught up, and we can talk about the risk of holding, or trading, cryptocurrencies.Īt the time of writing the first article in September 2016, Bitcoin was selling for around $600, and the time of writing the second article in December 2016, the price was around $770. Now when you are done, also read this one. If this is your first contact with any article that is cryptocurrencyrelated, I strongly suggest that you read the first article I wrote about the Bitcoin here. Now, we’ve gotten that disclosure out-of-the-way, let’s get down to business. A friend even accused me of being so bearish about cryptocurrencies, yet I just couldn’t stop talking about how people are getting rich out of them. just the result is.I may be a little biased when it comes to cryptocurrencies, but whenever I talk to an audience about it, I try as much as possible to reiterate the risks. There's still interesting value in figuring out why an artwork evokes whatever response it does, but I would guess the majority of the reasons aren't intentional. But art is notoriously about intuition and creativity where gut instinct guides the work. Huge amounts of art appreciation and art analysis is kind of sketchy when it comes to artist intentions. Would Shakespeare say that he used "the" because it was a word which when used repeatedly would invoke fear in the play's audience or would he just say that it sounded right for the play?Īgreed. When music professors pointed out Lennon's brilliance to him he just replied that he didn't know what they were talking about he had never heard any of those music terms before - he just felt it was the right sound for the piece. I'm bringing it up because I wonder what Shakespeare would say about this analysis. Reading the article, it reminded me of different analyses of John Lennon's music like. But it was up to the humans to find the meaning. The computation existed as a set of fresh alien eyes, telling the humans where to direct their attention. But to figure out why "the" was so key, they had to go back and reread the play closely, engaging in a very rich line-by-line literary analysis. They did some data analysis that pointed to the word "the". They started by pondering a phenomenon that has puzzled Shakespeare fans for centuries. But what's so delightful about Hope and Witmore's work is how it's genuinely a cyborg, centaur piece of literary analysis. The field of the "digital humanities" - which often involves using data analysis to study books - can get a bad rap sometimes.
His is one of my favorite examples of using data analysis to ponder literature.
In a few acts he'll be a totally unravelled mess. By writing it as "the hand" and "the eye", Shakespeare neatly evokes the way Macbeth is beginning to be tormented by his own decisions he disassociates from his own body.
That word?Īs Hope and Witmore note, you'd expect Macbeth to refer to " my hand" and " my eye". It turns out that Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again. Then a clever bit of data analysis in 2014 uncovered the reason. For centuries, Shakespeare fans and theater folk have wondered about this, but could never quite explain it. The literary scholar George Walton Williams described the "continuous sense of menace" and "horror" that pervades even seemingly innocuous scenes.
It's as if Shakespeare somehow wove a tiny bit of creepiness into every single line. There's something subconsciously off about the sound of the play, and it spooks people. Medium's technology blog OneZero provides a great example of the new field of "digital humanities":Īctors and critics have long remarked that when you read Macbeth out loud, it feels like your voice and mouth and brain are doing something ever so slightly wrong.