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by princeb 11y ago
not only that (incomplete coverage of languages) - words can also have phonetic similarities to vulgarities without the same spelling.
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by princeb 11y ago
barack.obama@whitehouse.gov is in there (and verified, whatever that means), as is tblair@labour.gov.uk (unverified), pointed out by zerohedge.
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by princeb 11y ago
Iirc the largest online sales day in the world is Single's Day at Alibaba. Blows Black Friday out of the water. The tech capacity is impressive.
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by princeb 11y ago
>Signition is a play on words including “signal” and “recognition.” but i could not help but think of "momentum ignition", a strategy that is a little bit more sinister than what amounts to no more than statistical methods for
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by princeb 11y ago
> Investors, if you want a deal, cut a check: it's not complicated. Founders don't have time for your games - you're the one with the cash, they're the ones with burning ships actually doing something. this makes it s
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by princeb 11y ago
sometimes I wish a brave soul will do the same with the financial industry (w.r.t. institutional regulation) but alas the law there is nowhere close to lazy eval.
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by princeb 11y ago
i am about 800-1600mg caffeine a day (almost all pill form since brewing and drinking coffee takes too much time) and i do not feel these so called muscle tremors, or abnormal heart rhythms.
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by princeb 11y ago
the discount rate applies to utility, which may or may not have any relation to the discount rate of money.
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by princeb 11y ago
see a few comments on the speed of python - given that the strategy is on a retail platform i'm not sure choice of language will be the bottleneck.
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by princeb 11y ago
diffeqs super easy: each diffeq is like a set of directions: e.g. walk straight for 500m, turn left, walk straight 200m, turn right. if you specify a starting point or ending point (boundary/initial conditions) then the directions beco
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by princeb 11y ago
this is tongue in cheek but given that airbnb does not concern itself with the NYC tenant blacklists this might be one of few viable options for this guy.
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by princeb 11y ago
bear bile is used to treat primary biliary cirrhosis. it can be synthesized, but if you don't have the equipment, bears will do.
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by princeb 12y ago
in netting phases the queue is almost entirely price based and not time based.
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by princeb 12y ago
he's referring to the unconditional intention to cancel an order. if any of the future states of the world result in you wanting to trade the order that you placed, it is a valid order.
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by princeb 12y ago
problem with this soln can be seen in exchanges' auction sessions: sessions of several minutes/hours during which orders only net at the end. with visible orderbook this does not avoid the problem of spoofing or eliminate the valu
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by princeb 12y ago
when I saw "avocado" sandwich the first thing I thought of was mashed avocadoes with diced tomatoes, onions, and coriander wrapped around tortilla chips.
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by princeb 12y ago
non normality of asset returns are known to finance in the 60s, maybe even earlier. the normal distribution is still used in many cases because it makes problems solvable. in any case I wonder how much of these price aberrations are caused
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by princeb 12y ago
wait, this makes no sense... there is no flat part of the exponential... the derivative of the exponential is the exponential!
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by princeb 12y ago
financial services are getting more customized and the margins are getting thinner. clients also tend to care very little about the cleverness about the back end solutions and only about whether it works better than the alternatives and whe
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by princeb 12y ago
perform a dickey fuller if you are unsure if a time series is nonstationary, perhaps.
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by princeb 12y ago
this is a good thing. all I see is that someone who would normally not have the ability to drive a BMW be able to enjoy the use of one - however temporarily. I do not believe I have the moral superiority nor the arrogance to determine what
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by princeb 12y ago
this gets brought up again and again with no agreement and the only advice I know how to give you is that when working in any language that has mathematics as its primary focus (mathematica, matlab, Julia, R), you use 1-index, and other lan
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by princeb 12y ago
OKcoin (the exchange they relied on in the paper for data) claims 0% commissions and a bid-ask spread of just 0.04 RMB. how real is that, I have no idea. but if you relied on this information you could believe that you can still take a few
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by princeb 12y ago
is a quarter million even a lot anymore?
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by princeb 12y ago
I use matlab. then I use excellink to send everything in matlab to excel.
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by princeb 12y ago
of the four items here the most important one (to me) is the "rate your work" point. but only because (emphasizing specifically for me) when you want to justify a pay review you want to have a list of things you have done. so inst
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by princeb 13y ago
Banks bear risk. when you want to borrow, they lend. when companies raise capital, they put the issuance on their balance sheets first. when banks make markets, they hold inventory with no ready buyer/seller. we pay them so that we avo
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by princeb 13y ago
operational risk is usually not included in var.
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by princeb 13y ago
http://www.geek.com/games/blizzards-hearthstone-instantly-pl...
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by princeb 13y ago
indeed it is subjective. it varies between persons, and for the same person it varies between tasks. i use 4x2 24" in the office. some days it feels like i could use more screen space. but it has also reached a point i need to roll bac

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