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by jplewicke 16y ago
This seems to be the archive in question: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090227065224/http://colin...
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Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We're mainly hiring for a general analyst position that’s about 60% programmi
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by jplewicke 16y ago
Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We have a paid internship that is similar to our full-time analyst position:
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by jplewicke 16y ago
According to their SEC filing, the source of the error was that they were using both percentages and decimals in the software, and someone thought that a decimal was a percentage. It's surprising how little your risk model does for you whe
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by jplewicke 16y ago
Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We have an internship that is similar to our full-time analyst position: htt
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by jplewicke 16y ago
I think we're at the more formal end of "business casual", but I normally wear a collared shirt and slacks, with no tie or jacket.
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by jplewicke 16y ago
Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We’ve got two main types of positions that we’re hiring for: a dedicated deve
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by jplewicke 16y ago
Would people be interested in an article on "How to Run a Marathon the Hard Way"? There's a ton of stuff out there on how to run a marathon in four months and survive it, but not very much on how to spend two years gradually working up thr
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Wikileaks May Have Used P2P Networks to Get Data(bloomberg.com)
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Conspicuous Production(worthwhile.typepad.com)
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Boston, MA MDT Advisers – We’re a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We’ve got two main types of positions that we’re hiring for: a dedicated developer pos
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by jplewicke 16y ago
If you're interested in Bitcoin, you may want to check out several other attempts at creating decentralized digital monetary systems. The Ripple project is creating a system where each node can issue their own unique money, and where transa
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Based on their election widget and access to demographic information, Facebook probably could put together scarily accurate, realtime election results.
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My guess is that they're not talking so much about the broad market as about being able to predict individual stock returns relative to the market. Having access to search-, browsing-, and click-streams of most people doing research on sto
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by jplewicke 16y ago
That's definitely true. The grandparent poster was referring to Patrick's top-ranked comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599181 , which dealt mainly with how amortization of Demand Media's acquisitions requires them to amorti
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by jplewicke 16y ago
Probably using Tynt - http://www.tynt.com/ .
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Alex Tabarrok linked to a video of a British town's experiment with this on a roundabout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0meiActlU&feature=playe... . They saw a 75% decrease in waiting time at the intersection.
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They had a fairly decent chunk of monetary stimulus: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-13/singapore-centra...
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There's an Apache incubator project to develop one: Apache Hama at http://incubator.apache.org/hama/ . It's still in pre-alpha, and I haven't been able to find a way to see the source code.
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A prescient footnote(blog.oddhead.com)
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You can also do this using standard Bellman-Ford or Floyd-Warshall if you set edge weights to be -log(exchange rate).
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Their programs would be single real numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computer .
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MapReduce and Pregel.
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The petition itself can be viewed at http://www.panix.com/~pspinrad/SELC-SEC-Rulemaking-Petition.... .
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Why Paul Spinrad is petitioning the SEC for a $100 Crowdfunding exemption(crowdfundinglaw.blogspot.com)
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From /usr/share/dict/words on OSX, I get the following: whenceeer (probable corruption of whenceever, and hence not legit) wallless bossship demigoddessship goddessship headmistressship patronessship
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by jplewicke 16y ago
The former Once and Future Prince?
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For those who are wondering, this seems to be a reference to the 2006 bankruptcy of Kongō Gumi, the previous record-holder for the oldest continuously-running independent business. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi )
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What's also somewhat interesting is there's a non-trivial countable set of irrational numbers: those formed by taking the roots of polynomials with raitonal coefficients. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number has the low-down, bu
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by jplewicke 16y ago
If you're interested in game theory and strategy and looking for a non-technical introduction, I'd heavily recommend the book Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393310353 ). I'd been exposed

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