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...Tens of thousands of shareholders descended on the Midwest city to hear from Buffett and the Berkshire team this weekend, where they discussed artificial intelligence and its effects on the investment world...
...The company said the figure was constrained by flooding across the Midwest, which weighed on shipping volumes....
...We've already mocked UBS for its spurious precision in assigning a 24-per-cent probability to Germany retaining the trophy....
...Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s biggest quantitative hedge funds, has applied for a patent on a precision clock to execute trades on multiple exchanges all at once, aiming to head off what it...
...“With machine learning, it is very hard to get above 90 or 95 percentage accuracy and precision, but with deep learning it’s a lot easier to build a model like that,” says James Wu, chief executive of Deepmap...
...Mr Puckett is frequently stopped by gaming enthusiasts wanting him to sign their mousemats (esports being the last refuge of the mousemat, helping players’ comfort and precision)....
...Precision Castparts, the maker of specialist components for aircraft engines, puts on a bewildering display. A model railway represents the Burlington Northern Santa Fe network....
...The deal, which will be used to repay bridge financing Berkshire used to fund its takeover of Precision Castparts for $36bn last year, is expected to be spread across eight tranches, according to two people...
...The launches of Lincoln’s large Continental sedan and Acura’s Precision sedan concept follow a series of introductions over the first two days of the Detroit auto show....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is closing in on its biggest acquisition as it negotiates a deal worth about $30bn to buy Precision Castparts, an aerospace equipment maker, people familiar with the matter...
...For Cardinal, an Ohio-based health services group, the acquisition fits its expansion plans in cardiology as well as wound management and orthopedics....
...It believes that the reclassification will add “to the precision and transparency of our combined COT report as a whole”....
...Timed with Machiavellian precision, it will also steal media attention from the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, traditionally a barometer of candidates’ standing....
...Kraft, they say, runs the show with military precision: processes are implemented and observed; directives or proposals pass through a hierarchy of layers....
...It is alleging “fraudulent misrepresentation” by the company in the sale of a subsidiary, Hampson Precision Automotive, for £2.5m last June....
...The photographs capture the fashions of 1970s California with alarming precision....
...Barzun praises Lincoln’s literary art: “[His] precision, vernacular ease, rhythmical virtuosity and elegance may at a century’s remove seem alien to our tastes,” he writes....
...Increased costs of fuel and pesticides and fertilisers have also increased their incentive to invest....
...He has a very sharp samurai sword, and he’s using it with precision.” But old Ford hands believe he may find it hard to break long-festering corporate bad habits....
...Yen for change Toyota’s lobbyists in Washington are showing a degree of attention to detail that would make the carmaker’s precision engineers proud....
...Based in Warsaw, Indiana, Biomet is best known for its orthopedic products, such as joint replacements and spinal products....
...Then there are Indy and Champ Car, both so-called “open wheel” series with greater speed and more international drivers, where precision is king....
...Today the company provides precision instruments, implantable components and many other services to the orthopaedic industry....
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