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In reply to the discussion: After Massive, Deadly Fires, KS Ranchers Surprised President Shitstain Seems Unaware Of Their Losses [View all]Lucky Luciano
(11,255 posts)13. It is so bizarre because Mercer is brilliant at some things.
Before he was recruited to Renaissance, he was a superstar in computational linguistics at ibm. His research is directly responsible for speech recognition technology and google translate etc. his work has been cited thousands of times....and then he buys into the crazy conspiracies. So weird.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Mercer4/publications
Some of the papers here reference Peter Brown -who is now co-CEO with Mercer. The whole ibm speech recognition team was recruited to Renaissance by Jim Simons. It was simons' brilliant insight that such technical skills could apply to quant trading.
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After Massive, Deadly Fires, KS Ranchers Surprised President Shitstain Seems Unaware Of Their Losses [View all]
hatrack
Mar 2017
OP
Disaster by disaster, big and small, his supporters are realizing the truth: he only cares for Don.
Vinca
Mar 2017
#1
Funny how the free enterprise market based Trump supporters turn to gov bailout
rgbecker
Mar 2017
#6
Unless they've got a Trump-owned golf course and resort, he's not going to come out and visit.
tanyev
Mar 2017
#8
Libertarian mindset: Any social program I can't plug into and milk, is a tax on me.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2017
#19