em70

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by em70 2y ago
Pixi is just better.
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The Race to Negative Latency(takethemarket.substack.com)
1 points by em70 2y ago|0 comments
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by em70 2y ago
I genuinely disagree. It seems to me like the planet is overpopulated, that there is massively unfavourable bias in terms of who reproduces the most and that, imperfect a proxy for intelligence as it may be, lack of common sense of the magn
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by em70 2y ago
This sort of sensationalist title and article are a great part of the reason why models are nerfed by training them to output absurd disclaimers. Nobody should expect that AI can be relied upon for anything where the cost of an error is cat
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Bitcoin Has Zero Intrinsic Value. Some People Are OK with That(bloomberg.com)
3 points by em70 6y ago|1 comments
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by em70 8y ago
This paper is rubbish. Trading is ultimately a partial information, sequential game with an unknown number of participants whose payoff functions (and utilities) are also unknown. Could the market be closer to being efficient if P=NP? Likel
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by em70 12y ago
I think that the FAA will demand that Amazon runs the test program without hiccups for a while before considering a more realistic test, such as one with the drone outside of the pilot's line of sight, or a flight with bad weather con
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Amazon's latest step towards drone deliveries(faa.gov)
6 points by em70 12y ago|2 comments
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by em70 12y ago
Too much noise - this means nothing. This is exactly the reason why serious investors give fund managers money not just based on performance, but on process.
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by em70 12y ago
Hello, index arbitrage!
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by em70 13y ago
It's not really that easy. The spread is still not zero and you may still get bad fills if you are slow or if the latency is high enough (assuming that you are taking liquidity).
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by em70 13y ago
Even if Bitcoins may very well crash as some point (even soon), this point is so poorly argued that it was a pain to read.
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Where do you think BTCUSD will go?(imgur.com)
4 points by em70 13y ago|0 comments
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by em70 13y ago
Confirmed both on Chrome and Safari. Chrome's console even crashes if you try to "View Source"
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by em70 13y ago
FX brokers like LMAX, while still targeting retail investors, make money (almost) exclusively on commissions, rather than adjusting the spreads. Many liquidity provision strategies are also infeasible given the unreliability of the APIs ava
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Ask HN: why are Bitcoin trading fees so high?
7 points by em70 13y ago|5 comments
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by em70 13y ago
What if they acquired a license? We would have come full circle, proving the idiocy of this system and, implicitly, that the intelligence of those who administer it is quite limited at best.
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by em70 13y ago
Nonetheless, it is one extra worry you do not want to have
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by em70 13y ago
The destruction would be by the lack of trust. Since there is nothing but supply and demand considerations keeping bitcoin's value high, guess what would happen if demand were to vanish
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by em70 13y ago
I have yet to see it being pointed out that none of the encryption in use for these cryptocurrencies will necessarily remain extremely hard to break for long. A good question is: what if bitcoin or something alike does effectively gain trac
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by em70 13y ago
I know of at least 5 firms who would have the means to make a big profit in a rather stealth way and all of the infrastructure needed to minimize execution risk (to the point that it may be negligible)... Just because you cannot do it or th
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by em70 13y ago
As someone who lives in Kendall Square and studies at MIT, I would say that, in spite of the amount of brains, Cambridge and the whole Boston area are a terrible place to live, with few opportunities for recreation and a horrible weather...
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by em70 13y ago
That code is a recipe for getting hurt. Here are a few points: - Return is not everything. More informative performance metrics are Sharpe ratio (a sort of reward/risk measure) and information ratio. Both of the above have ridiculously low