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The Fellowship of the Metaverse: CIO, CMO, CCO and CHRO

CIO Business Intelligence

However, delay too long, and you also risk giving yourself an insurmountable technological handicap if uptake in your industry suddenly accelerates. While one of the precursors to the metaverse, SecondLife, proved in the short-term that such items could certainly be desirable (from 2003 to 2013 $3.2

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Why CEOs should test big digital business ideas in tiny countries.

Mark Raskino

For example in 2003, when I visited Zagreb in Croatia for the first time – they had mobile phone text based payment for car parking. If they play the game intelligently, some of the very smallest countries can take advantage of their size to be world leading petri dishes for new industry fomentation. This is not a new observation.

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The trinity of errors in applying confidence intervals: An exploration using Statsmodels

O'Reilly on Data

As the number of experimental trials N approaches infinity, the probability of E equals M/N. Modern portfolio theory assumes that rational, risk-averse investors demand a risk premium, a return in excess of a risk-free asset such as a treasury bill, for investing in risky assets such as equities. on average.