whoisninja

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CS PhD programs not requiring GRE(twitter.com)
1 points by whoisninja 6y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin's mempool (work on open-source problem)(judica.org)
1 points by whoisninja 6y ago|4 comments
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by whoisninja 6y ago
very insightful, thanks for answering all my questions..... seems like you know your stuff well
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by whoisninja 6y ago
looks very interesting, could you help me understand it a bit more - i'm less aware about hardware side of tech. seems like it will allow very cheap multiprocessing? so applications could be gaming, scientific computing, ML? how does i
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Ask HN: What are some legitimate startups working on frontier technologies?
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Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme(nakamotoinstitute.org)
3 points by whoisninja 7y ago|0 comments
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by whoisninja 7y ago
totally, highly recommend listening to this podcast everyone. The guest explains the repo situation very well in addition to Bitcoin as hard money: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/nik-bhatia-on-bitcoin...
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by whoisninja 7y ago
also universities, internet and open-source software has bridged lot of that gap but then we also have claims like China stealing IP from US (not suggesting who's right or wrong, but stating a fact)
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by whoisninja 7y ago
agreed, should be like that. but play Sid Meier's Civilization read about operation paper clip and read about Helium on the moon and it's not just space, you can say same about any technological advancement. why re-invent? why not
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by whoisninja 7y ago
it's not enough data to test all of those 130 papers, he said he has also tested short term reversion trends. for that you need tick data(or atleast minute/hourly data)
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by whoisninja 7y ago
the author is trying to sell crypto trading bot ! looks shady to me if anything guarantees you profit, run away from it as fast as you can : https://credium.io/ https://towardsdatascience.com/crypto-tradin
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by whoisninja 7y ago
i asked the author where did he source his data, his reply was "i scraped data" how can you scrape pricing data? not every data in this is on public domain, otherwise there would be no Bloombergs, CapitalIQs selling data for milli
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by whoisninja 7y ago
more important than this study if done correctly is the fact that he built a framework that can ingest all this data and that he had access to all these datasets typical hedge fund spends millions of dollars in order to build such framework
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by whoisninja 7y ago
and.... there's massive amt of electricity used in gold mining(and toxic for environment for how it's done) and so many banks employing millions of people and using so much computation to print money out of thin air (debt issuance
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by whoisninja 7y ago
he's spot on about private blockchains he's also spot on about Ethereum and other alts he's not absolutely right about Bitcoin. If there's a hard money that is better than gold, and that's backed by electricity ---
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by whoisninja 7y ago
it will be hacked in a day
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by whoisninja 8y ago
it is defrauding and if you consider the atrocities, shady unethical ways to enslave mass population, the Bengal famine of 1943 - you should be shocked the so called "sir" winston churchill was after all a mass murderer in a sense
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by whoisninja 8y ago
Finally, lightning network seems to be having a good growth at the moment, if it holds up for another year or two - i think Bitcoin will be in a very sound position for adoption in places where it is most needed. Financial markets will def
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by whoisninja 8y ago
I should also mention that biggest technical debate to understand right now is scaling in this space for most part. Smart contracts is not that big of deal at the moment IMO. These are all open-source developments, adding proven features fr
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by whoisninja 8y ago
this site only indicates how much it will cost per hour to sustain the attack. it is unknown how long it could really take for attack to be successful, also as others pointed out - there's no incentive But yes, most of these garbage t
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by whoisninja 8y ago
they're doing so so that their same investors who have investments in these garbage tokens, can off load them - and leave retail people holding those bags full of non-sense. Ethereum and 1000 other coins have simply created too much hy
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by whoisninja 8y ago
Only suggestion in my opinion that matters : the food has to really taste great. Instant foods taste like hell generally. So this has to be significantly better. Specially with Indian food, most Indians cook from scratch and the food only t
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by whoisninja 8y ago
wall streeters are liars, opinionated and biased bunch, if there was any manipulation in unregulated crypto markets because they were nascent shouldn't surprise you, why? ponder upon the following: home prices were not artificially inf
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by whoisninja 8y ago
lame, pointless, ignorant there's nothing more transparent that bitcoin. if you don't believe simply don't run a full node and enjoy your fiat money and the cycles of boom and busts(the real ponzi). The Keynesian economics i
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by whoisninja 9y ago
Because then one of the most successful quant funds like twosigma and rentec are not doing quant trading since hft is only small portion of their business. You cannot manage 50B in an hft strategy single handedly. The author lives in a diff
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by whoisninja 9y ago
This alludes that all quantitative trading is high frequency trading. I would think all high frequency trading is quantitative trading but converse is not always true.