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110 is the Minimum Population on Mars for Sustainability

To sustain and build a community to survive on Mars we will need at least 110 people. Now we have to figure out logistically to get the humans from SpaceX launch sites to Mars and to start terraforming and turning us into multi-planet species and ensuring our survival after an already rough 2020 but this is nothing compared to what real devastation could entail.

Here is the scientific paper breaking down the information on Mars Sustainability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66740-0 

Richart Ruddie Twitter

The official Richart Ruddie Twitter account can be found here: https://twitter.com/RichartRuddie

While I try to keep a low profile there were some impersonation profiles that I've had deleted and removed from the internet. I've grown found of using Twitter for real time updates on issues and seeing what some of the smartest people that I follow have to say on different topics. Of course on Twitter everybody is greatly opinionated but thats what the internet thrives on.

I've started to spend more time updating on twitter but find my official Richart Ruddie Blog here at Typepad more conducive for taking notes and coming back here for updates when I want to find a note that I blogged about as opposed to searching through my old tweets vs. blog posts that I can rapidly google.

Here's a random photo from a few years ago of DJ Jamie Jones and myself in California.

Wall Drug's Free Water Loss Leader is the South of the Border of the Midwest

If you've ever driven from New York State to South Carolina in the 90's on I-95 then you would have noticed the hunderds of billboards promoting South of the Border. It's a tourist trap on the border of North and South Carolina with some of the funniest billboards I've ever read..Cold Today...Hot Tamale or Smash Hit at Pedros South of the Border.. After my visit to South Dakota which the locals said they classify themselves as the end of the Midwest I took a road trip out on I-90 which runs from Boston to Seattle to see Wall Drug.

Unfortunately at the time due to COVID-19 Wall Drug was closed but a recent reading about how the owner put up his first billboard during the recession of the 1930's offering free water turned the rest stop into an instant success story that will soon be 100 years in the making. Everybody gets thirsty and the price of water being free it's hard to say no to that. What happens is visitors start to shop for other items and the retail space at Wall Drug is huge so there's almost always a purchase that accompanies the free water.

Wall Drugs has been succeesful without being coy or deceptive or manufacturing faux needs and this is a message all businesses should uphold. Wall Drug just focused on something everyone wanted but no one was talking about free water while on the long lonely road. They started the conversation and consumers talked.

Bottom line and I quote "SELL THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE"

Arte Fuse Covers Richart Ruddie Donation to NYC School

Promoting equality and support during troubling times Arte Fuse has covered the donation for the Rashid Johnson piece who paints and creates pieces that are ever so relevant to fighting for equality today. Wanted to thank Arte Fuse for the piece that can be read here: https://artefuse.com/2020/06/09/art-collector-richart-ruddie-donation-spurs-others-to-help-during-covid-19/

Download a picture of Richart Ruddie with a Yayoi Kusama piece which I'm trying to pledge or loan to the Aspen Art Museum in 2021.
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Richart Ruddie Believes Machines Can Predict Outcomes

Humans are notoriously horrible at predicting the future. We start off each year with what will happen in the markets and world that given year and well it's always so far off. Even the best pyschics in the world tend to shoot 10-30%. We're better at being able to measure risk when things start to take shape and then jump on the band wagon and hit the gas pedal with some hedging as protection.

Nassim Taleb one of the most intelligent humans in the world told a university class during a filmed lecture that he doesn't believe Warren Buffet, Stanley Druckenmiller, or Any other Richart Ruddie prognosticating is going to be able to predict the markets and are just in a class of people who have been lucky to a point where they accumulate such growth that if Buffet says I believe airlines will go up that they go up and he has billions of dollars invested in them.

What's interesting however is Buffet said he believes airlines and their business model has changed significantly for the forseeable future. We just haven't seen that far ahead yet but their stocks and Mr. Market are signaling something else while Tesla hits all time highs.

So back to Nassim Taleb for one second. He did say that he believes only two people can do so. One is George Soros (yes the one that all the conspiracy theorists say is behind Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement) and the other an idol of mine and other nomination for the most intelligent living human is Jim Simmons of Renaissance Technologies. Everybody else Taleb says should just tail hedge accordingly.

So why do I believe Machines can predict outcomes? In this piece here where they use Tennis match data and match it up against future outcomes the authors claim an accuracy of 75% in predicting the matches at the 2007 and 2008 Grand Slam tournaments. 

In 2020 sportsbooks hedge their risk so no bettor would be able to make billions off of this like they could in the stock market but if you read the 64 page paper you will learn that the applicability of machine learning methods to predict Tennis matches is possible when you let a machine crunch data vs. going on your own gut or memory as humans don't have the ability that machines do. This is just one instance of predictions. Would be interesting to see this data for a 2020 Election Biden vs. Trump vs. the outcome.

For More Information about this see: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/teaching/distinguished-projects/2015/m.sipko.pdf

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Hawaii Only Has 1 Cable Working Underseas

Crazy to read and think that Hawaii could lose internet connectivity... Two of the three cables that Hawaii relies on to keep data flowing are nearing the end of their useful lives and are in desperate need of repair but recent global and civil matters are causing a disruption in the repair. 

The third is newer, but its ownership is tied up in a bankruptcy proceeding. 2 of the cables are 25 years old and one failed twice (requiring repair) in recent years. Facebook and Google, who have been laying the more modern undersea cables, bypassed Hawaii. The state's Internet access has been strained by lockdowns, telehealth, business scandals, and ageing technology.