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elemeno

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About elemeno

Technology Consultant in Capital Markets

Ex-Health Care disruptor

Ex-Quant/Developer, working for a bunch of derivatives traders. Spend my time thinking about volatility curves and option pricing.

Work in C#, play in C++ and F#/Haskell with a hint of Lisp on the side.

Avid player of (board) games, preferably of the unforgiving economic variety. Leads to long discussions about the desirability of different stock markets in various 18xx titles.

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    Keyboardio sells both the Preonic and Atreus ( https://shop.keyboard.io ) fully built with a variety of key switch types. I use the Preonic as my daily driver and really like it - …

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    To the best of my knowledge much of this originated with SecDB/Slang at Goldman - SecDB (securities db I believe) being the object store and slang the somewhat quirky C like langua…

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    It’s not an agentic pattern, it’s an approach to test driven development. You write a failing test for the new functionality that you’re going to add (which doesn’t exist yet, so t…

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    They’re one of the two big names in legal data - Thomson Reuters Westlaw and RELX LexisNexis. They’re not just search engines for law, but also hubs for information about how laws …

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    It looks like this user here - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=spinity - has created a new account to continue spamming posts about their fidget spinner.

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    I’ve been building a tool to help with this - Safety Evals In-a-Box [ https://github.com/elemeno/seibox ]. It’s a work in progress and not quite ready for public release, but its a…

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    I had a similar problem with mine where the clock was out and preventing it from syncing or updating. The solution i was told (and which worked for me) was to plug it into a comput…

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    If you’re interested in this you might like the game Bombe ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/ ) - a game about defining rules to let the computer solve various min…

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    nit: on the front page it says "transfers everything seamless", I think you want to say "seamlessly" instead.

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    Which Lisp book is that?

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    It's an americanism as far as I can tell - 'cider' is what would be called apple juice in the UK (or maybe just fresh pressed apple juice) and 'hard cider' is what would be called …

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    Other than Netflix (that I know of) all the other FAANGs have big offices in London. Between them and the financial sector, there’s a fair number of very well paid tech jobs in Lon…

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    From another article on the FT it sounds like they’re talking about ballast, not that it’s taking on water. - “ Alongside specialists dredgers that are working to remove sand and s…

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    > Yet, in all cases, after hedging, the airline will still either win or lose depending upon the change in oil price. No certainty has been gained. That’s not really true. You’re l…