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by ctkrohn 7y ago
Funny to see this after all these years. I read this paper just before starting college in 2003 and it inspired me to spend most of the summer writing a rudimentary Lisp interpreter in rudimentary C++. That was my first piece of my code t
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Doing Enterprise Financial Data Visualization After Journalism(medium.com)
1 points by ctkrohn 7y ago|0 comments
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by ctkrohn 8y ago
He's actually done a few of those, for example this recent interview with Agnes Callard https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/agnes-callard-ty...
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by ctkrohn 9y ago
Does anyone know what the apparently pocket-sized notebook computer is? The one in the picture about halfway through the post, with the watches draped over it.
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by ctkrohn 9y ago
Right, those anomalies could simply exist unexploited until the market is better understood. For example, you used to be able to earn money buy buying the 501st largest company in the US: if it happened to become the 500th largest, all the
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by ctkrohn 9y ago
Here's perhaps a better way to say what I'm getting at: identifying and investing with a manager that predictably outperforms a benchmark is just as difficult an intellectual challenge as constructing a portfolio that outperforms
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by ctkrohn 9y ago
If the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (in its stronger forms) is false, there should be managers who are able to identify the cheapest stocks within the S&P 500 and thereby outperform the index. A disbeliever in EMH should look to identi
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by ctkrohn 9y ago
Are you running vim within tmux? Which terminal emulator are you using? Were you able to get full color support? I tried doing this a few months ago but was never able to get Vim set up to my satisfaction.
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by ctkrohn 10y ago
HP still makes RPN financial calculators. I recently switched to using an HP 12C at work, after holding out for a long time. It's amazing how quick it is once you get used to RPN, and I love the solid feel of the hardware. You can p
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by ctkrohn 11y ago
Very common, to the point of being nearly universal except in relatively recent construction. Many (perhaps most) NYC apartments don't have thermostats. Don't like the heat the landlord has chosen? Open the window or buy a spac
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by ctkrohn 11y ago
Not to be confused with Slang, the in-house language at Goldman: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3392636/slang-goldman-sac...
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The Statistics Software Signal(seanjtaylor.com)
4 points by ctkrohn 14y ago|0 comments
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by ctkrohn 14y ago
Terence Tao, one of the preeminent mathematicians working today, had a pretty good post on this exact question: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-...
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Amazon said to be planning new smartphone to compete with iPhone, Android(bloomberg.com)
8 points by ctkrohn 14y ago|0 comments
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by ctkrohn 14y ago
What's the name of the short story? Sounds like it could be interesting.
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405 petabytes of storage in a modern supercomputer, most of it in tape drives(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ctkrohn 14y ago|1 comments
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The disappointing returns from venture capital: a major LP's perspective(blogs.reuters.com)
19 points by ctkrohn 14y ago|0 comments
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by ctkrohn 14y ago
Check your link? That URL returns a server error.
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by ctkrohn 14y ago
Another thumbs up for "An Engine, Not A Camera." A great book on the philosophy of financial modeling and how models influence the markets (the "engine"), rather than providing static snapshots of information (the "camera").
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The Problem With Marc Andreessen(blogs.reuters.com)
122 points by ctkrohn 14y ago|62 comments
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
Yeah, he skipped over what might have been the most interesting part of the talk! I have a very cursory understanding of how the GIL works, so it would be nice to understand what's going on here.
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Lets Talk About Something Diabolical: A PyPy Intro (David Beazley PyCon keynote)(pyvideo.org)
116 points by ctkrohn 15y ago|12 comments
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
Believe it or not, there's a novel that combines pretty much all these things: Charles Stross's "The Atrocity Archives." If you're into sci-fi, you need to check this out. It's a bizarre but hilarious mashup of James Bond, Slashdot, Offic
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
SPJ actually discusses this a bit in his talk. He says that Haskell has tried to achieve the ease and intuitiveness of imperative programming through things like the "do" syntax sugar for monads. He agrees that there's still plenty of imp
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
Duke's name comes from a tobacco businessman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan_Duke
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
For a few minutes, there was only a line of text at the top of the NYT home page. It took them some time to put up an article.
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
Along similar lines, Scott Aaronson recently wrote a long essay entitled "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity." http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=735
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
That's already very common practice, and unfortunately it's not very effective. Bear Stearns was 30% employee owned [1], and Lehman was 25% employee owned [2]. All that stock became worthless when the firms blew up. [1] http://www.nceo.o
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
They answer a few of these questions on their FAQ: https://banksimple.com/faq/ * They are not a bank. They are essentially a web frontend for wholesale banks. Thus they are regulated differently. * You do have the benefit of FDIC insura
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by ctkrohn 15y ago
Here's the Python equivalent, for what it's worth: http://www.trinhhaianh.com/stream.py/ I've been playing around with this in my current project, yet I'm not convinced this is always such a great model. It requires a lot of mental work

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