Viewing profile — jmillerinc

Your last sentence: that's exactly what I took to be the point of her post.

Super lame that people upvoted this story. Way off topic for HN.

Probably just a coincidence, but - http://gantto.com/ http://preceden.com/

What would your strategy be to get that 5%?

That's different. The security is: if a programmer implements the code correctly, but the market turns against the strategy and the strategy loses money, the programmer generally w…

"Prove the algorithm correct" - gosh, if only that were true.

Of course, but the traders are taking risks in the sense that they can get fired for losing money. Programmers generally won't. They have a lower-risk, more secure job.

I have a feeling this article confused the creators of the trading algorithms, which is what makes the money, with pure programmers, who are hired to implement someone else's pre-e…

Yes, you're in the db. :)

Gosh, I had to upvote this just for the crustacean research citation alone.

I just made a bunch of regular expressions that capture phrases like " http://twitter.com/foobar or "I'm @foobar on twitter", etc.

Sure, I'll email it to you.

Agreed, but I don't think there's much to worry about as it stands. PG said newsyc currently gets 60,000 unique visitors per day, and the # of ppl following these twitter feeds is …

I question whether SVD would yield good recommendations. In any case, co-voting data is not scrape-able from the public HN site, so I think using keywords and urls is really the on…

You can implement what you want with simple keyword & url filtering.

Done. @newsyc100 (also have @newsyc50)

More daily-tip twitter feeds from the same author here: http://www.johndcook.com/twitter/