spitfire

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by spitfire 15y ago
There's a lot of different "versions" of HFT. HFT right now means millisecond response times. While UHFT means microsecond - collocated at the change. 1us=300m fibre distance. The fact is, you probably don't have the knowledge to pull off U
872.
by spitfire 15y ago
You see so many people trying to deflect criticism and failure. Accepting it wholeheartedly is rare. This is genuinely a classy move. I wish them all the best of luck.
873.
by spitfire 15y ago
What makes me really happy is when I'm working on something new. Particularly science. Some sort of new kind of science.
874.
by spitfire 15y ago
Mathematica. But not because of the language - it has some warts. But because of the problems I'm working on when I choose Mathematica as a tool.
875.
by spitfire 15y ago
That list shows a huge amount of earnt knowledge. Notice the www.applesmartcovers.com domains? That sort of stuff, while obvious in hindsight, probably nets them hundreds of $K alone.
876.
by spitfire 15y ago
How to Avoid Being Pushed Out of the Company You Founded? Own it.
877.
by spitfire 15y ago
Now which would you bet your business on? It'd be nice if things could move a little faster. But the alternative is wild-wild-west.
878.
by spitfire 15y ago
There are some things you can't say. I'm about to say one of them. Paul Graham is now a pundit and member of wall st west (Silicon Valley). He has a vested interest in pimping his product - Young impressionable developers. You can take anyt
879.
by spitfire 15y ago
So I need some sort of storage area network of clients. Okay, so I'm chopping up my database server somewhat, Making it easier to scale horizontally. I can live with this, but I wish it were stated explicitly. The SaaS model they're offerin
880.
by spitfire 15y ago
Okay, I don't quite get this. The processing gets moved to the client. But what if the dataset involved is too large for the client to hold?
881.
by spitfire 15y ago
Oh the irony. -- Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Apache Server at 2011.dsn.org Port 80
882.
by spitfire 15y ago
This has happened to me before wrt software I've written. Them: "Do you have any qualifications on $FOO?", Me: "..."
883.
by spitfire 15y ago
This is a very good post. One I've thought about in a different context before: How much bandwidth/resolution do we really need. The human senses have an upper limit of resolution, once we reach that limit further progress is irrelevant. So
884.
by spitfire 15y ago
It sort of comes down to what you're comfortable with. In this case, the strict image analysis parts were more minor compared to the real work. Also, Matlab seems to be stagnating, while Mathematica has been growing by leaps and bounds. Als
885.
by spitfire 15y ago
Yeah. I don't have premier service. (When it says "call for quote" I leave) I'm guessing you work for wolfram? Is there a demo available somewhere?
886.
by spitfire 15y ago
Which language?
887.
by spitfire 15y ago
Are you talking wolfram workbench or eclipse? (I don't have workbench). If eclipse has mms support I'll be trying that out tonight.
888.
by spitfire 15y ago
You're absolutely correct. Right now we focus on moving text around. Where the magic will come in, as these sorts of things progress is developing interactions to move the ideas around. Moving further up the power curve is always a good thi
889.
by spitfire 15y ago
Executive brief - Go high end, where the money is. Where results are valued. Licensing isn't an issue - $3K/year+libraries for development. A runtime player for Mathematica costs $300. You just have to pick your projects carefully - No rail
890.
by spitfire 15y ago
It's funny, more and more I'm moving my work to Mathematica because it works sort of like this already. That, and it's as far along the power curve from python/ruby as python/ruby is from C.
891.
by spitfire 15y ago
I've been wanting this sort of thing for ages. Considering how sophisticated we think we are, how the hell are we still using tools like emacs, or even VS on a daily basis? We should be indistinguishable from magic by now. This is a (small)
892.
by spitfire 15y ago
I hope no one is surprised by this. If governments are willing to spend billions upon billions for intelligence, why wouldn't private corporations. Hell I've throughout of doing this a few times - then I think about the work it entails. I b
893.
by spitfire 15y ago
Fantastic! I'll do that just as soon as someone gives me an open source Mathematica, ansys, risk modelling packages. On a serious note, I agree source should be available. But it isn't, because these sorts of specialized packages are very,
894.
by spitfire 15y ago
Do you have any real evidence to back that up? When Lou Gerstner came to IBM he all but said their innovating days were over. Since the 90's IBM hasn't come up with any new products, instead focusing on acquisitions. Their patent flow is fu
895.
by spitfire 15y ago
I implemented a UUCP network in 2001. It was still around because of some legacy (SCO UNIX) systems which just couldn't be gotten rid of. Fortunately, these things are much less common now that software costs are essentially zero.
896.
by spitfire 15y ago
That description sounds exactly like what Facebook PR is bragging about now. The heads of the company even seem very similar.
897.
The problem with taking money from big VC's.(cdixon.org)
4 points by spitfire 15y ago|1 comments
898.
by spitfire 15y ago
It's not yet another language that we need. It's more high level functions. C or fortran can be as fast as they want, but in mathematica I can do MorphologicalComponents[] and get the components. having these functions available to me speed
899.
by spitfire 15y ago
TED was already beyond redemption several years ago when Tim Ferris and a number of other self-help guru's took the stage.
900.
by spitfire 15y ago
Regardless of his motives, this is a good move for HP. Now if they had kept the touchpad and introduced this plan along with it, that would be impressive.

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