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Coffee Shorts Get Roasted As Arabica Stages Biggest Jump Since Dot-Com Arabica coffee futures jumped the most since the Dot Com era as worsening weather in Brazil and shrinking exchange-managed warehouses intensified concerns about near-term supply. This comes as El Niño threats rise across critical agricultural belts worldwide. New York prices jumped as much as 18.5% on Monday to $3.57 a pound, the highest since January. This was the largest single-session gain since July 18, 2000. Context on the squeeze: Traders had been expecting a large Brazilian crop, but rains have slowed...

The Money Printers Fueling Socialism's Rise Authored by David Stockman via the Brownstone Institute, Here's a graph the Keynesians, statists, and Wall Street gamblers - yes, we repeat ourselves - would prefer not to explain. At the same time, it also explains why socialism at this late date in history - and after all its abysmal failures the world over - is having some kind of dubious second coming in America. During the last three decades the national savings rate (red line) has essentially collapsed, having fallen from 6.3% of GDP in...

Watch: Korean Humanoid Robot Performs Viral K-POP Dance, Learns By Watching Videos Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, While China dominates humanoid robotics headlines, a Korean firm showcased a humanoid learning complex motions through an open-source AI framework. AI Sapiens enables a complete pipeline for imitation learning, covering data collection, training, and inference. ROBOTIS/YouTube In a recent demonstration, ROBOTIS' AI Sapiens learned the famous CORTIS REDRED Challenge motion using only smartphone video, eliminating the need for professional motion-capture systems. The process combined video-based motion capture, motion retargeting, simulation-based reinforcement learning, and Sim2Real transfer. According to...