Random Interesting Links #1

Collected for your reading pleasure

Every once in a while I stumble upon some interesting links. Not necessarily related to investing. So I saved up enough of them and thought you might find them interesting as well.

Autism as a prediction disorder of the subconscious mind. Where predictions made are too precise or lacking altogether. The opposite of Schizophrenics that have a problem with predictions that are too wide and vague. It does give an interesting insight into how the mind works as well, even if you have no interest in Autism:
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/42/15220

Leaked diplomatic cable about a report by an American professor who knew Xi Jinping quite well, describing what he was like before he became the big man in China:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

Very interesting short and colorful articles by a quant hedgefund about some of the more unknown past bubbles. Very well written too, you can download PDFs somewhere on that site for free:
https://www.winton.com/tags/The%20Pit%20and%20the%20Pendulum

Article about Karl Friston, one of the most famous neuroscientists currently alive. Who has come up with a rather vague general idea of how the brain works, called the “Free Energy Principle”:
https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/

Mark Manson on wisdom:
https://markmanson.net/newsletters/mindfck-monthly-92

Isaac Asimov essay on how people get new ideas:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/10/20/169899/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/