mikkom

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by mikkom 10y ago
I think it was confirmed that the computer is locked to windows due to ms/lenovo contract http://imgur.com/a/niewu
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by mikkom 10y ago
You should note that he's from austria (based on his domain name), I would assume it would be quite a feat to go to visit US police from Austria and not worth his $500.
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by mikkom 10y ago
> After all, essentially what happened is that he was late on a $500 debt payment. That is far too nice way to describe the issue and I would assume that even in US these are two separate issues (being late from mutually agreed payment
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by mikkom 10y ago
I thought I had seen this before and then I checked the date. This is from 2014.
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by mikkom 10y ago
> We even got married and had kids because of orkut. This has a totally different meaning in finnish as orkut means "orgasms" in casual speak.
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by mikkom 10y ago
For meditation there is lots of scientific research. Just some random research below, there is lots of more if you use google. http://www.davidwolfe.com/meditation-rebuilds-brains-gray-ma... https://www.washingto
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by mikkom 10y ago
So this post says > We have verified that intercepting messages via the method you suggested is possible and is a problem. We have also verified it only affects firefox (chrome, ie, safari, opera, etc do not use the window for message p
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by mikkom 10y ago
> This approach works fine in the small, but as you grow, do research and try new things out it becomes an unmanageable mess I have quite a long history in creating complex systems so I think my code is quite clean and easy to work with
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by mikkom 10y ago
> None of these things exist, or are reasonably possible in Quantopian in its current state. Personally, I wouldn't trust a dollar to it. My current Q "algo" or whatever we call it (it's a ensemble of multiple "a
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by mikkom 10y ago
Yes we agree on library part. Copypasting management code is extremely annoying and also leads to version control hell. I hope this will be changed at some point and they will allow personal libaries. About "stages" I'm not s
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by mikkom 10y ago
> You don't want to complect Some people want full control of the pipeline. I'm one of them so this doesn't bother me personally. However I kind of agree with you as it's PITA sometimes that quantopian does not allow
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by mikkom 10y ago
If they allocate 10 million for your algo and you get 10% of the profits but pay none of the losses... Well you can calculate the math. Plus they don't require exclusivity for the algos so you can start your own hedge fund and trade yo
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by mikkom 10y ago
> They only focus on the trading algorithms with no support whatsoever for portfolio allocation, risk management, money management, etc. Sorry what? The algos are coded with python. How can you not include proper risk management, portfol
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by mikkom 10y ago
This has been made many, many times already. Zipline that we are talking about here is created by Quantopian that actually provides aggregated twitter harvesting datafeed free for this year. https://www.quantopian.com/data&#
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by mikkom 10y ago
> I get the feeling this "pure dataset" is part of some framework that Numerai thinks will beat the market, given good predictors. > That's not necessarily the case. This is the part that I find most interesting. They h
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by mikkom 10y ago
Unless there are people in the "crowd" who work in machine learning / data mining in totally different sector (let's say genomics/biostatistics as this is the example in the article) but have no access to the hedge
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by mikkom 10y ago
> Freebase is an online collection of structured data which includes contributions from many sources including individual and user-generated contributions. Currently, it has 1.9 Billion RDF N-Triples worth 250GB of uncompressed data. On
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by mikkom 10y ago
All these complicated examples and no mention of functional pattern matching or pattern matching at all. IMHO These are by far the two most important ways to get rid of complex code embedded with ifs. One very good example of this is erlang
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by mikkom 10y ago
> Have 10000 experienced ruby programmers and 10000 experienced java programmers solve different tasks. I'm pretty sure that rubyists are going to solve their problems using 50% less time with at least 30% less LOC just by the virtu
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by mikkom 10y ago
There is a documentary coming in 2016 about this dive, here is the english website: http://divingintotheunknown.com/en There was also an excellent article about the dive (with lots of pictures and videos that they recorded
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by mikkom 11y ago
Could you also answer the other part of the question: What is your revenue model?
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by mikkom 11y ago
So what does this "supercomputer" mean in context of RT.com? > The model is so far designed to tackle only one specific problem, but that is enough to set the groundwork for further research, and, according to Nicolau, biocompu
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by mikkom 11y ago
Sorry this took so long, see my other reply.
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by mikkom 11y ago
This was about Finnish tax authority taxing company income as personal income (another possibility) or taxing the company as it would be finnish based on location of your operation/management location, not the basic taxes based on your
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Fusion breakthrough: Chinese maintain plasma at 50M°C for 102 seconds(express.co.uk)
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by mikkom 11y ago
You need more than a physical address, you need to live in estonia if you don't want to pay extra taxes. This is true for at least Finland, I have consulted tax lawyers about this.
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by mikkom 11y ago
> I doubt the CIA were gaming Google in the 60s Not Google but they were gaming ufo people. Thee was a good documentary about this called "Mirage Men" http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/14&#
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by mikkom 11y ago
from http://imba.io/guides What is Imba? Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant JavaScript. It is heavily inspired by ruby and python, but developed explicitly for web programming (both s
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by mikkom 11y ago
As this seems to be some kind of javascript derivate using node.js on the backend (?) I'm interested in how this deals with async operations, ie. can you create functions which take a long time to run without blocking other users? This
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by mikkom 11y ago
This also very related and just released. This was published in quite many local (finnish) newspapers as this is a joint project of Jyväskylä (finnish) and Michican universities. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18259

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