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by boothead 14y ago
Replying here as I can't add on another reply below The way we do our monitoring/UI is with zeromq/protocol buffers as an external surface to the trading system (basically a PUB socket) and a very thin bridging and translation layer to WebS
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by boothead 14y ago
Are you planning to run R in production, or is it purely for research that then gets translated to haskell?
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by boothead 14y ago
Python is definitely preferred on the research rather than the production side generally. Some organisations do use it on the infrastructure side too, but these guys are algorithmic traders, and not HFTs so latency isn't that big a deal. WR
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by boothead 14y ago
Have you considered python for the research/algo side of things? I work in a hedge fund in London at the moment and there's a massive shift away from R towards python in the algorithmic shops that I know about here. There's also the great w
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by boothead 14y ago
I'm one of the afflicted; always looking for more information. One other thing I've noticed in myself after beginning to do a little mediation is a pervading and constant sense of "I should be"... * I should be building my own business * I
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by boothead 14y ago
Where do you work that you can just take a decision like "I'm going to use language X" if you don't mind me asking? How did you deal with concerns (which I assume your manager must have had) about skilling up the rest of your team, and your
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by boothead 14y ago
You'd probably need one of the more heavyweight options (e.g. GHCJS). Fay doesn't understand typeclasses afaik, so it's not really suitable for porting haskell libraries verbatim to the browser.
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by boothead 14y ago
It's not that bad, I'm a web developer too and I work in London at the moment. With my day rate I could probably fund a year in a cheap part of the world on 6 months work, but it would definitely stretch further if I could top it up with so
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by boothead 14y ago
How do you find remote work? Are you a contractor or permanent?
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by boothead 14y ago
Why is it that big companies get this? In two weeks I'll be going from a nine person company when there's no working from home whatsoever under any circumstances to a ~250k person company where it's supposedly allowed. WTF?
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by boothead 14y ago
That was a somewhat flippant comment... The guys who build the models have phds in physics plus advanced degrees in statistics and stochastic calculus etc. I understand the basics of how the system works, but due to my lack of that advanced
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by boothead 14y ago
May I ask where your confidence in this prediction comes from?
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by boothead 14y ago
They aren't producing anything, but they are providing a service. Algorithmic futures traders are typically uncorrelated with for example the S&P so pensions funds use their services to smooth out volatility and generate better returns.
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by boothead 14y ago
Algorithmic hedge funds trade on statistical models successfully. I work for one at the moment, and over the long term they expect to make 15-20% per year. We have no traders and there's no intervention - it's purely the statistical model t
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by boothead 14y ago
Who's we if you don't mind me asking? How's your experience of snap been? I'm thinking of building a little SaaS effort on the side and would want to use Haskell for at least the backend, and maybe even the front end with fay.
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by boothead 14y ago
Really? What do you do (no detail in your profile)?
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by boothead 14y ago
Thanks for the comment, I think I've seen your blog before actually! I know a few FP specific recruiters in London, and my feeling is that FP is not quite widespread enough that you could jump directly from one contract to the next without
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by boothead 14y ago
Yes I've definitely seen evidence that Haskell has become a marker language on one's CV of the right attitude (somewhat taking over from python a few years ago). In fact one recruiter reported back that a client said "He's done some Haskell
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by boothead 14y ago
That was very much the experience at a previous place I worked: they tried scala, but didn't really embrace it. They ended up with somewhat more concise Java code :-)
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by boothead 14y ago
Anyone who's done some Haskell care to comment on whether scala is worth learning? I read the scala book a few years ago, then I decided to go to the source first and learn Haskell. However, I don't see many Haskell employment opportunities
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by boothead 14y ago
I've begun meditating using http://www.getsomeheadspace.com/ for the last few months and I've noticed a definite uptick in both my ability to focus and concentrate on writing code and also my ability to step back and give myself a bit of
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by boothead 14y ago
I actually meant scalability in terms of how your application grows, not how much traffic it can handle in my answer. I should have been clearer.
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by boothead 14y ago
It turned out to be a bit more than 100 lines when I added it all up :-) Here's the bulk of the code in a gist, with a little example of usage: https://gist.github.com/boothead/5108455 Be happy to answer any questions if it's unclear. The
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by boothead 14y ago
Flexibility and scalability - those are the two takeaways from this. I've always found django (for example I'm not specifically down on django) to be quick to get up and running but to lead you gently down a path that ends with a very high
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by boothead 14y ago
I ended up making my own package (which I stole from sphinx) and including it so I can keep all of my style separate and pick and choose what other stuff I use - like minted for example. I've found it a bit of a mixed bag though - setting u
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by boothead 14y ago
I used iwriter (which is lovely) to bang out some text on my iPad and save it to .txt files on Dropbox. I post processed into org-mode in emacs afterwards. iWriter won't recognise the .org suffix by default, but that didn't matter to me bec
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by boothead 14y ago
Yeah I am doing it with LaTeX, but it was a shock to the system how much actual LaTeX I had to mess with to make it work (and not look butt ugly) and I wondered if anyone had a more streamlined workflow (or better tools.)
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by boothead 14y ago
Org mode for writing books... I've started writing a book in org-mode. The writing is all fine, but the exporting is a bit of a pain! Anyone else doing this and have any tips on pdf export from org? edit grammar
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by boothead 14y ago
As mentioned in this thread by nicholasjarnold, Jeff Hawkins work on HTM (detailed in his excellent book "On Intelligence") seems superficially similar to this. Has anyone had experience of both approaches. HTM seems to have much more struc
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by boothead 14y ago
I've spent about 3hrs trying to get the fsharp binding working in xamarin studio but no luck. How did you get it working?

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