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Restricted Navigation Reader for Exercise(github.com)
1 points by someben 7mo ago|1 comments
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by someben 7mo ago
PDF & Markdown viewer with intentionally restricted navigation, so you can mash the buttons easily on a tablet while exercising.
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by someben 7y ago
Wow 2007 called and wants its Ornstein-Uhlenbeck back.
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Vw-Stream, Vowpal Wabbit as Node.js Stream(npmjs.com)
1 points by someben 11y ago|0 comments
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by someben 11y ago
I added Discworld to TextCraft.
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by someben 11y ago
Adding right now.
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by someben 11y ago
Hmm, do you have a specific example? (Of the MUD and client?)
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by someben 11y ago
That would be slick. However I think Slack keeping up with nice clients on every platform imaginable is a nice way to piggyback.
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by someben 11y ago
Great thanks. I'll add links to the homepage.
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by someben 11y ago
I've been tempted to send a "look" or "inv(entory)" command to keep-alive a session. Hmm...
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TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client(textcraft.co)
61 points by someben 11y ago|25 comments
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Pyfin, option pricing in Python(github.com)
7 points by someben 12y ago|0 comments
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by someben 12y ago
Will try to put together some benchmarks for the cooler sketches & summary stats. Doing mutual information across two millisecond streams could be pretty convincing!
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Skream, online time-series Clojure library with sketches(skream.in)
32 points by someben 12y ago|5 comments
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by someben 12y ago
Most important comment on this thread.
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by someben 13y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: Closed captioning API
6 points by someben 13y ago|3 comments
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by someben 13y ago
New Ruby module on Github to import & parse the treebank corpus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395420
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Importing Stanford's Deep Learning Sentiment Treebank
10 points by someben 13y ago|0 comments
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by someben 13y ago
Check out the behavioral finance literature, like the Shleifer book: http://www.amazon.com/Inefficient-Markets-Introduction-Behav...
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by someben 13y ago
When people use derivatives to hedge their exposure to "bad things happening" and the market is not very liquid (i.e. BTC), arbitrage opportunities can persist. For example, if there is no buyer at an out-of-the-money option strike price I
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by someben 13y ago
Logistic regression and other parametric, non-regularized linear learners tend to do poorly with NLP forecasting -type modeling. (They usually overfit.)
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by someben 13y ago
That Twitter paper has been torn to shreds over the last couple of years. Here is me snarking: http://blog.someben.com/2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-wh...
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by someben 13y ago
What is your source for the ole' "derivatives reduce volatility in the spot market" assumption?
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by someben 13y ago
Or it would cannibalize their real business, reputation-wise. Imagine if Quicken started trading TurboTax data...
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by someben 13y ago
Out-of-sample backtest or it didn't happen. Out of a bunch of random search queries, chances are several of them will be "predictive" of futures moves in an index. Big whoop.
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Hashing Trick Explained, for machine learning(blog.someben.com)
2 points by someben 14y ago|0 comments
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by someben 14y ago
Kinda an obvious introduction to order books. Later I hope he gets into the rebate mechanism: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/NYSEstkfe... Note that you get PAID for placing certain types of orders.