gaika

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ClusterK can run apps on Amazon’s cloud for 1/10th of the regular price(venturebeat.com)
10 points by gaika 12y ago|2 comments
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Flow Charts(neil.fraser.name)
61 points by gaika 14y ago|30 comments
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by gaika 14y ago
It is exactly what happened in France when they introduced a similar tax. All traders moved into CFD (contract for difference) instead of trading the underlying stock.
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by gaika 14y ago
Those traders who didn't exit during the flash crash profited the most, what makes you think they will pull out the next time? On the flip side: those Market Makers that were forced to trade Facebook on the day of the IPO lost the most, whe
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by gaika 14y ago
For example traders in equities can participate in "on close" auctions if they prefer to do so. No millisecond guessing, no bid/ask at all, pure double side auction. Yet only ~10% of the volume goes there. You can open up your own ECN and o
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by gaika 14y ago
It is an ecosystem, of course traders with fast computers would try to fill all the niches they can. Take a look at a broader picture: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lharris/ACROBAT/Zerosum.pdf Is suspect those in "Panel C: Losers who expect to
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by gaika 14y ago
HFT serves the same purpose that human Market Makers and Specialists do, only better. Kill it, and you will end up paying more. Did you complain when human travel agents were replaced by expedia and like? Would you complain if car salesman
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by gaika 15y ago
It wouldn't break current theory, it would just mean that photons travel slower than "speed of light" and have non-zero rest mass. Constant c in relativity instead of speed of photons would just mean fastest speed possible.
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Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows(technet.microsoft.com)
372 points by gaika 15y ago|46 comments
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by gaika 15y ago
> invariably lead to a discussion of utility functions and slowly bore everyone But that's the crux of the matter - both sides of the trade are getting some utility gain (otherwise the trade would not happen) and thus it is not a zero s
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by gaika 15y ago
Don't ask who is losing on the other side of your trades but think instead who is your customer. What is the service that you provide and how it helps them. If you're making a profit it means you bought inventory when the price was below fa
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Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web(sites.google.com)
228 points by gaika 15y ago|43 comments
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by gaika 16y ago
Yes, you can break below diffraction limit. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution
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by gaika 16y ago
When you turn the camera the perspective shifts, as if you're inside a cube with pictures on its walls. Is it that hard to fix to get more real feel like in a 3rd game? Edit: default zoom is too wide-angle. Zoom in and everything is so much
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by gaika 16y ago
Here's a more scientific way of predicting crashes: http://videolectures.net/risc08_sornette_fcrm/ "Most attempts to explain market failures seek to pinpoint triggering mechanisms that occur hours, days, or weeks before the collapse. Sorn
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by gaika 16y ago
From the original report [1]: "It was not our purpose to examine, nor did we seek evidence on, the science produced by CRU. It will be for the Scientific Appraisal Panel to look in detail into all the evidence to determine whether or not th
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by gaika 16y ago
Add Nouriel Roubini [1] and at least 2 other CEOs that are not listed. It feels like we're living in Graham Greene's "Our Man In Havana" [2]. [1] http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/06/30/274571/from-roubi... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org
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by gaika 16y ago
Just a warning to anybody using Linked-In or Facebook - journalists are already calling all the "friends" they can find online for details. FBI will be calling soon too. This information is just too easy to find for anybody who has time to
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by gaika 16y ago
see http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_schoelkopf_km/ - kernel methods in general, not limited to SVM
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by gaika 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwMzQiXlK0 - original presentation of the concept.
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CSV dump of reddit voting data (reddit.com)
30 points by gaika 16y ago|6 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
There's a way to identify individuals in the raw data: http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/netflix-faq.html
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Netflix Prize 2 Cancelled Due to a Lawsuit and FTC Inquiry(blog.netflix.com)
103 points by gaika 17y ago|71 comments
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(One Of Many Reasons) Why Students Hate Algebra(blog.mrmeyer.com)
33 points by gaika 17y ago|19 comments
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Job Satisfaction(dilbert.com)
76 points by gaika 17y ago|20 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
That's nothing compared to the comments that show up in "HARRY_READ_ME.txt": http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=118625&#...
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Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty(hatfulofhollow.com)
8 points by gaika 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Reader gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking(googlereader.blogspot.com)
1 points by gaika 17y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 17y ago
What happened to it? Tracking it on linked in seems that it closed its doors in April 2001. Archive.org has web site still there in 2002. "... What moves stocks ..." the average investor still wants to know. I've launched WhoMovedMyStock.co
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by gaika 17y ago
Don't use a debugger - think when something doesn't work. The feedback you get by thinking about your own code teaches you much faster than anything you get with compile/run/debug cycle. "I think that without a debugger, you don't get into

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