Day: April 14, 2021💾
📽️ Videos
Starting to feel a little better after my evening walk. 🚶🏻
Starting to feel a little better after my evening walk. 🚶🏻 That round 2 of the Pfizer COVID really knocked me out midday, I ended up canceling going to John Wolcott house and then I ended up skipping going down to the library.
Bernie Madoff
Despite claiming to generate large, steady returns through an investing strategy called split-strike conversion, which is an actual trading strategy, Madoff simply deposited client funds into a single bank account that he used to pay existing clients who wanted to cash out. He funded redemptions by attracting new investors and their capital, but was unable to maintain the fraud when the market turned sharply lower in late 2008. He confessed to his sons—who worked at his firm but, he claims, were not aware of the scheme—on Dec. 10, 2008. They turned him in to the authorities the next day. The fund's last statements indicated it had $64.8 billion in client assets.
One of the World’s Largest Collaborative Geospatial Projects – GIS Lounge
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is perhaps one of the largest geospatial collaborative projects in the world, where over 1.5 million contributors have helped to edit over 1 billion features.[1]?The project effectively tries to map the world using a crowdsourcing, collaborative method.??In this MapScaping Podcast episode,?Jennings Anderson, who researches OSM, discusses the benefits of the project.