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by svd4anything 7y ago
Wow that is such an interesting idea to me. one of those “that was obvious why didn’t I think of that” type reactions. What help-desk system is your favorite?
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by svd4anything 7y ago
I’m the same. It is very interesting how people have radically different experiences with light. I feel the best in winter with cloudy dark days. My wife is completely opposite and so are most people it seems, they feel good in sunlight. I’
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by svd4anything 7y ago
ML, deep learning, AI stalled theme this last week. I’d just like to mention what if we are dramatically underestimating by many orders of magnitude the computational, storage and bandwidth of organic brains? What if organic brains are usin
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by svd4anything 7y ago
What if our tree of life’s brain is utilizing a type of Quantum Computing?
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by svd4anything 7y ago
The other datasets show prices for me when I login. A few financial datasets I checked seemed over-priced by as much as 10x.
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by svd4anything 7y ago
Use their B2. rclone supports B2 as target
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by svd4anything 7y ago
They probably have significantly better raw data sets than even their competitors like AQR or Two Sigma. Satellite data on parking lots. Credit card swipe statistics. Parsed and structures full financials. Supplier consumer relationships. A
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by svd4anything 7y ago
You really don’t know what you are saying. The leverage is to boost absolute returns. Sharpe isn’t changed by leveraging. They are automated black box strategies making 1000s of trades a day with massive undeniable statistically significant
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by svd4anything 7y ago
> There were also many other players: had LTCM not blown themselves up, we might be marvelling at their investment prowess now. This is nonsense. Rentech makes 1000s+ of transactions per day across numerous asset classes. It is 99% skill
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by svd4anything 7y ago
They have massive alpha. Why is this so confusing to outsiders. Huge effort on detailed historical data sets combined with top of the world modeling techniques creates alpha, it shouldn’t surprise anyone.
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by svd4anything 7y ago
Same here and I was thinking it would be a detailed guide to compiling from source.
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by svd4anything 7y ago
> One of their lawyers once tracked me down because I mentioned some harmless datapoint about a technical problem I had worked on. Ok so now you said that won’t it be pretty trivial to identify you again? How many “4 digit HN” users have
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by svd4anything 7y ago
It seem possible the journalists are just looking at huge end of session volumes, which happens every day, and then writing their fantasy fiction news article. CME transactions are anonymized in the market data feed there is a seller for ev
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by svd4anything 7y ago
> Milk in the US is only a couple days old by the time it's in the grocery store. Same for me. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on with this discussion and then suddenly I realized .. The US is not a single system and a
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by svd4anything 7y ago
> He described the early experiments at JP Morgan, where they needed to calibrate a parameter in their model, so one day JP Morgan did 2500 trades one way, and 2500 trades another way, and by measuring the market response, Shaw had his p
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by svd4anything 7y ago
So he temporarily sabotaged many customers to make a political point about ICE because he believes they are immoral. I’m not sure two wrongs can make a right like that.
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by svd4anything 7y ago
There have been a number of cases in the financial industry with trade secret theft and the perpetrator has been sent to prison. Why if he is convicted (likely imho) wouldn’t he also?
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by svd4anything 7y ago
No there is many indicators that Mossad is the most likely sponsor. His well established link to Ehud Barak the ex-PM who has deep extensive intelligence history is an example. It would be extremely long post to detail all the evidence. It’
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by svd4anything 7y ago
Ok sure but how can I say it without being accused of being anti-semitic, I was thinking using the intelligence agency name is more appropriate than an entire country! I am NOT ever anti-semitic, but maybe Mossad gets away with crazy stuff
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by svd4anything 7y ago
I suspect each and every “customer” he had was compromised/blackmailed. Additionally there are subtle indications that he has intelligence connections and was perhaps even state sponsored. Now which state ... well of course I’ll be fla
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by svd4anything 7y ago
How do you think it compares to xonsh? I ask because I had been thinking recently about investing some effort into xonsh and now nushell has appeared. I’d be very curious what any serious xonsh users think about this newcomer.
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Something Big Seems to Be Going Down Near Area 51 This Weekend(thedrive.com)
2 points by svd4anything 7y ago|0 comments
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by svd4anything 7y ago
Rebuildable is different than reproducible. The Nix system is predicated on rebuilding. Ideally the binaries would be all also reproducible however it turns out making compilation completely deterministic is actually pretty hard. When we re
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by svd4anything 7y ago
I’ve considered buying this book several times. Thank you for posting this review.
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The Definitive Guide to Centralized Logging with Syslog on Linux(devconnected.com)
5 points by svd4anything 7y ago|0 comments
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Congressman Has Written an Official Letter to the Navy Demanding Answers on UFOs(thedrive.com)
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Unknown Material Says Former Head of Advanced Systems Lockheed Skunk Works(vice.com)
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Special Access Programs and the Pentagon's Ecosystem of Secrecy(thedrive.com)
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by svd4anything 7y ago
The idea is that the monetary base is being abused by the government for spending, which should show up in higher inflation and result in bonds dropping in price, however we have stubbornly low inflation, which if 21T was spent on undisclos
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Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account for $21T(forbes.com)
2 points by svd4anything 7y ago|2 comments

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