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June 02nd, 2017

2/6/2017

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Artificial Intelligence may soon make market research more effective

AI Swarm technology is making inroads. It might will soon revolutionalize the polling industry, bringing better market analysis with it. Stay tuned, a revolution in on the way.

Pollsters missed to forecast results in the American 2016 elections. They have come out with many excuses, like the one below.
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But it turns out they have been almost consistently wrong over time, like is shown below.
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AI might still be in its infancy, but it has already provided us with many surprises. The next one might just be it might predict election winners better than pollsters have.
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So far Swarm technology has predicted horserace winners, beating a 540 odds to 1. It might already be better than much polling results and it is likely to become much better. Stay tuned.
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May 25th, 2017

25/5/2017

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Brazil’s President Temer

​hangs by a thread.



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 Brazil’s penchant for win-win solutions suggests the next transfer will also be swift and pacific. This is good for business and quite frankly, for the people as well.

It pays to remember how Brazil got to this sad state of affairs.

President Lula had many qualities going on for him, but he failed on the litmus test of effective leadership: making a successor. This is why Brazil was landed with President Dilma who, lacking a political base of her own, would remain hostage to Lula.

It did not work. I never thought it would, and I said so in 2010 in an interview for Clarín of Buenos Aires (in Spanish).

Since, we learned that not even Lula's workers party was immune to corruption, which now we know to be more widespread, even as it unfolds.

Most heirs of Iberian countries are more concerned with principles than Brazil is. One only has to remember the pragmatic way with President Dilma was shown the door; Temer is likely to be disposed of in a similarly swift way.

Principles are a good thing and Brazil is also likely to justify the choice of the next leader, as it did the last time, barely a year ago. But Brazil´s penchant for win-win solutions also makes the outcome harder to predict, because there are a lot of winners to accommodate. This itself will delay the ousting of Temer, perhaps for long enough to allow him to fulfill his mandate, even at single digit preferences among the electorate.
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The choice of a successor is likely to remain within the best known who have not yet fallen in disrepute. Why not Roberto Mangabeira Unger?  This would allow for a degree of normalcy, at least until true alternatives have a chance of elaborating a candidacy by the next general elections, literally around the corner. 

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May 20th, 2017

20/5/2017

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May 20th, 2017

20/5/2017

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Fraud and treachery upgraded​
​​Fraud and treachery were the lowest of circles in Dante's Inferno; yet today references to either are only as frequent as gluttony.
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​Can leaders tainted by fraud and treachery help you cross the Aqueronte?

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Given what we know today about some of the largest Brazilian corporations - like Odebrecht and JBS - and about their cosy relationship with politicians in Brazil and elsewhere, what can we expect from their leadership? Not more than we could expect from Charon, the ferryman of Hades:

​"Non sperate di vedere il cielo: son venuto per condurvi all'altra riva, nelle tenebre eterne, al fuoco o nel gelo"

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Forget your hope of ever seeing Heaven: I come to lead you to the other shore, to the eternal dark, to fire and frost.)

Divina Commedia - Inferno – Canto III – vv.85
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