lotsoflumens

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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Yes - even Typescript, when arrays are given types, doesn't fix it even though it could be done easily. var x : number[] // should compile: x.sort(function(a,b) { return a - b; }) var y : string[] // should compile
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I just saw this insanity a couple of days ago: https://youtu.be/l1Efy4RB_kw?t=343 He refactored a Java application into 1400 classes!
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
> JS/frontend world is the worst offender when it comes to engineering robust software I completely agree. I still can't understand why the language that we depend on for increasingly large-scale front-end work still works lik
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
It's only FUD until you have to find a few million to cover legal costs.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Yet another attempt to own everything. They even reference Martin Riedmiller's work from 2005 on "Neural Fitted Q Iteration" and dismiss it, saying that his paper was just an "attempt" to use an MLP for the Q functi
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I found TweetDeck a few years ago and I gave it a permanent place in the top left corner of my desktop on my browsing machine immediately. It solved all the problems I was having with the web app - huge memory usage mainly. If there's
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I use Atom (the beta channel) every day - it has become my favorite editor because of all the nice support for different languages. It could be a bit faster, but I'm confident that it will get better. I also made the mistake of opening
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
LoL - this is great. This should be what pops up when we press the "Boss-Mode" hot-key on a slow day.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
No, it's not just you. The more I look at Rust, the less I like. -- leaving off the semicolon on the last statement causes that to be the return value of a function. -- functions can't capture free variables in lexical scope. They
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Yes, I think that this will be the only acceptable model, ultimately. Advertisers will pay users directly - through some kind of micro-payment process. Users will choose which sites they use to view the ads and obtain their revenue through.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
> A business dependent on advertising doesn't need to consider which of their users are most dollar valuable ... A business dependent on advertising, is a business about to fail.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
It's actually an open solicitation for licenses. The fact that it's patented is right there in the readme. The real trap is: if you were foolish enough pay money for a license, then when somebody with deep pockets invalidates the
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I think that's changing very quickly. It's happening much more now because software is everywhere, and paper publication lags are still months and sometimes years out.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
It's sad and annoying - another bunch of academics who can't be satisfied with using public research money to benefit the public. They just have to go ahead and patent mathematics too. It's pathetic.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
This so true. At BBRY for example, directors make 300k to 400k per year. That's for having a few nice lunches, shaking a few hands, and meeting with the management a couple of times per year - at the same time that the company flounder
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
The actual title is "101 Formulaic Alphas". And the paper has nothing at all to do with "high-frequency trading".
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
The article says that only "Three genuine conspiracies" where used to estimate his model. That seems like a very small sample to me.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
The awful paradox of lotteries is that every week somebody wins, but every week that will not be you.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
It's hilarious, even if it isn't.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I absolutely agree - all trades should be final.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Do you understand the purpose of paying for order flow?
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I usually like a good heated discussion on the interwebs as much as anyone, but when you say: "I don't see anything negative in the article", I realize that I'm wasting my time and I'm already bored.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
The article speaks for itself ... and anyway your examples are all HFTs. Of course, having an edge for a long time is possible, even essential. The entire argument here is about having a legitimate edge.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
I assume you're referring to these guys: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-23/don-t-tell...
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
That's why I said I agree that the markets are broken. The SEC already knows that this occurs but chooses to not stop it.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
No I don't. Can you name any such "firm"?
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
The very first assertion in the article is "AMERICA’S equity markets are broken." Do you think that's false? I trade the "markets" every day and I think they are almost completely broken. If HFTs supply liquidity, w
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Also, beware of submerged patent mines.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
"dual licensed" - guaranteed to double your licensing confusion.
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by lotsoflumens 11y ago
Your comment might be a little bit too subtle for most people, but quite amusing.

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