cowmoo

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by cowmoo 10y ago
> if I had an algorithm that could perform well, why would I hand it over to Quantopian? I'll share my algorithm here: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/xiv-slash-vxx-pair-trade-1 "Pair-trading VXX and XIV
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by cowmoo 10y ago
Hi, a shameless plug: I went to the Quantopian (the company that is behind Zipline and essentially uses Zipline as the core backend to their cloud platform) algo-trading hackathon two weekends ago and came up with this algo: https:/&#
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by cowmoo 13y ago
http://changefol.io is a site that I use to set up micro-donations that's based off my daily spending, e.g., donate $0.05 for every $1 I spend at the gas pump to Sierra Club; $0.10 for every $1 I spend at the grocery store
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by cowmoo 13y ago
Haha, touche.
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by cowmoo 13y ago
Uhh, I really hate INTJ personalities, most are so uptight centered on being judgmental. The "worker bee" personality that I see at IT/software places. INFP ftw, feeling up and perceiving people over thinking and judging peop
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by cowmoo 16y ago
Has there been a good writeup of what HFT "Is" at any point? http://vimeo.com/6056298 What is your impression of them as a pernicious/positive force? Are they essentially market making? Open for debate. Depends on what you mean as a perni
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by cowmoo 16y ago
You are right that for a individual investor focused on the long term, a algo-order probably wouldn't make a difference in comparison to a market order with your E-Trade/Schwab account (most likely, your order-flow won't go directly to the
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by cowmoo 16y ago
"Yes it takes practice to become a good singer, but any number of hours of practicing poor technique won't do much good." Yes, this is true and oft-repeated mantra on YC News. But it begs the question, how does one practice the "proper" tec
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by cowmoo 16y ago
Yea, write a simple Python/Perl script that interfaces with TOR and force-reset your exit nodes each time you send out a new request and randomize the time interval. There are plenty of TOR exit nodes in the world to swing the vote your way
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by cowmoo 17y ago
I think your analysis is correct despite of all the self-congratulations that goes on here on Hacker News. A couple caveats though; I think your definition of technology is too narrow, Web 2.0 is only one segment. The smartest people have m
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Ahh ... isn't Mint build off a platform that allows it to do all of the fancy secure financial banking login and information sharing?
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by cowmoo 17y ago
There's a saying that if you start learning a musical instrument when you're an adult, "you'll always play with an accent." I suppose you could also program or seen code programmed with an accent.
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Good advice. After you have learned the basic open chords, scales and the fretboard notes, and "Wonderwall" - and are bored with the strings. You could go always back to silicon and build a) an Arduino interface to an software/hardware mixe
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Thank you for your $0.02; this might be really obvious to you, but could you be kind and enlighten the oblivious engineering crowd on this forum and be more specific as to what kind of value-add does sales and marketing add to a early-stage
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Thanks for your advice and the link to the book.
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Maybe someone as a musician can enlighten me, but I always have so much trouble doing rote scale at every guitar fret position, arpeggio, memorize-these-chords exercises. I always hear two sides of the argument that a) a la Mr.Sivers, oh yo
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Rote memorization is a problem in programming, too. Not to rag on PHP or Visual Basic, but people could get by with just memorizing certain keywords - or not solve hard problems by using a third-party plugin or googling for code snippets. I
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The Philosophy of Computer Science(plato.stanford.edu)
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Affirmative action doesn't bother me. So what if the SAT-tutored and AP/IB class-taking kids from suburbia couldn't get into Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Boohoo! It's the end of the world when they go to the Duke, CMU, or Cornell where upon
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by cowmoo 17y ago
When I'm sixty five, I'll be playing WoW and listening to the nostalgic popular records of my day, from fine artists such as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em and T-Pain.
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by cowmoo 17y ago
"Don't care if the cat is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches the mouse, it's a good cat." Basically for those who are interested in the background of the quote, Deng arose to power at the end of the Cultural Revolution, at th
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Does anyone who are pro's in music production/audio engineering wana help a wannabe out? I'm curious as for a noobie, into computer music what kind of software/languages/theory I should get into. Do these live coding people use plugins for
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Why do algorithmic trading articles pop up frequently on HN? I understand why people are attracted to it because they think that they can beat the market by implementing their own stat arb strategy using neural networks/genetic programming
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by cowmoo 17y ago
I'm curious how you went from squatting 1 rep max of 135lb to 10 reps of 315lb in 6 month. It's quite a transformation. According to http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/SquatStandards.htm... , that puts you in the advanced percentile
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Does anyone know if there's any similar events at MSR, open to public for those of us who are in the Cambridge of this side of the Atlantic (Microsoft Research New England at Cambridge, MA)?
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Did anyone else who is using FF3 on Windows Vista w/ Flash Debugger installed get crashes when you try to mouse-over a video preview on a music video/artist search? I think the issue is caused by improper exception handling in the way that
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Why I Will Not Be Working at White Oak Technologies Inc.: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/08/08...
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by cowmoo 17y ago
Caution: Personal bias stemming as a Chinese-born U.S citizen. One reason for American dominance after WWII was that so much of Europe's manufacturing capability was destroyed by war. America has (about) the same manufacturing base as 2 ye
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Esplanade is also good for running too during the winter. Because if you are not dressed appropriately for the weather (i.e., in your running shorts), you are essentially forced to run the whole esplanade to keep warm 'till you get home.
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Why do people like Kendall so much? Out of all the "squares" and neighborhoods in Boston, it sucks the most IMO. It's essentially the industrial park next to MIT. If people are so inclined to be in the "tech scene", live in any other neighb

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