Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for September 25th from 19:49 to 22:19:

• Mohamed El-Erian reveals daughter’s talk led to PIMCO exit – When the Oxbridge-educated economist stepped down last year as the chief executive of the PIMCO investment fund, one of the largest on the planet, rumour was…
• A startup wants to reinvent big data, by ditching binary and putting computers in space – There’s a lot to question about the plans of ConnectX, a Los Angeles-based startup that plans to build a new type of big data system in space — running on…
• After Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn’t Know – Before his three-hour neck surgery for herniated disks in December, Peter Drier, 37, signed a pile of consent forms. A bank technology manager who had…
• Daniel Keys Moran – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – (born November 30, 1962), also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer. Moran was born in Los Angeles to…
• IMMUNITY : Knowing You’re Secure – Note that Daniel Keys Moran is not an employee or otherwise affiliated with Immunity – we just like his writing and are happy to provide a place for it to live.…
• Pixar Vets Reinvent Speech Recognition So It Works for Kids | WIRED – ToyTalk Oren Jacob and his daughter, Toby, had just finished a Skype call. They’d been chatting with some other family members on Jacob’s smartphone, and it was…
• Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes | Smethurst – This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the…