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Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Python, Django, Angular, Ionic Resume: https://my.indeed.com/r/ae0b7c0b62849b95?trk.origin=myindeed…

I'm in the ibanking risk technology space, and while I've never been in your position, I'd be happy to bounce some sales ideas back and forth my first concern would be: what do you…

i agree with this explanation - what will be interesting to watch is where these coders wind up: * hyper-secretive buy-side firms like SAC decide there's a labor opportunity, and t…

I think you're saying the same thing, but I agree deathflute has stated the problem more clearly from a business perspective: the strategies do not scale, yet they need to reinvest…

i tried to post this comment on your post on religion: i get where you're coming from, but you've convinced yourself you're smarter than others and that makes you less happy, proba…

Gold Panda, Four Tet, Baths, Toro y Moi, Caribou, Pantha du Prince - http://www.rhapsody.com/myrhapsody/playlists?playlistid=mp.1...

i consider myself more right-brain leaning than many in this field, but i still consider this nonsense. wtf does, for example, knocking about on foreign adventures have anything to…

Doing event-driven trading isolated in the Cayman Islands without any sort of insider connections is a recipe for failure. There are lots of high-frequency trading shops that could…

"im so great at coding because i've spent so little of my life doing it! that makes me better, qed" huh?

in politics relative merit is what gets things done (Hint: you can get around this by starting your own libertarian paradise on some uninhabited island, may I submit the name "jack…

although i appreciate your attempt at libertarianism, your logic is non-nonsensical: you attack regulation without offering an alternative or re-defining the problem

sure but you can't attach moral obligation or duty to a corporate entity, all you can do is regulate (and we are trying...) to tie the two together, i don't believe regulators are …

Do it, I worked in HFT for a year and enjoyed it. It's a small and secretive world. People that go this route don't tend to start up "how to" blogs on HFT, and you'd likely be shun…

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -Wittgenstein

From how you describe your experience of teaching yourself to not only create a working program via independent research, but also recognize it's flaws and refactor afterwards, I h…

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

> watch NYC launches Is there a site to keep up with this? I'm in NYC. Similarly for air travel: what do you use to find good deals? Sounds like you've done research.

Ridiculously techno-centric comment. You cannot replace trust with a shell script. IT has the profound ability to tell us, with amazing detail, the state of the world today. But bu…

> 'Nature follows from the basic mathematical assumptions.' This statement is more treacherous than you give it credit for. If we understood all those mathematical assumptions, wou…

isn't the base problem one of collaborative filtering? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering seems like a fairly interesting problem to me - or am i idealizing? i su…

huh? define a philosophical constraint and i'll undefine it for you... i believe the import is that it helps us come to terms with our humanity, which has no formal definition, by …

i've never understood why some are so averse to ads as a business model in new media... it seems as if facebook/twitter are in a real place to sell me stuff i might actually want ,…

im talking using card counting to inform rational betting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

Agreed. Also - surprising they mentioned blackjack - can't you turn the odds in your favor with card counting and rational betting?

Show me proper Matlab data structures, I/O libraries, and string manipulation and I might actually care about language features... I do agree with all of these advantages of using …