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Doing it out of passion is a great source of motivation and continuous learning, plus you get in touch with a lot of people.
Working on a proof of a modular exponentiation algorithm in Lean with a focus on performance. Hoping to be able to extract a low-level ASM or C implementation from the proof.
It doesn't have to be a full project, right? Do random drive-by PR-requests to open-source projects count? A few months ago I ended up scratching an optimisation itch for weeks, trying to figure out ways to make the lz-string[0][1] library faster and smaller. Near the end I went a bit nuts with trying out what works, methinks (nested trees built out of arrays and such), but I had a lot of fun. It's not even my librar…
Everything to do with cryptocurrency! I wrote trading bot that was actually making a small profit - and then the exchange got hacked and took all of my coins & dollars with it :( I've started to get into Ethereum and Solidity recently, but mining even a few coins just to have gas money costs more in electricity than they're worth. I'm letting my desktop mine anyways, but when I reach my pools payout threshold in a we…
The trading bot sounded fun. I was always curious about the bots that were apparently used on betting sites like betfair to perform arbitrage.
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The trading bot sounded fun. I was always curious about the bots that were apparently used on betting sites like betfair to perform arbitrage.
I one quadrupled my capital with a betting bot running a martingale strategy. Then I made it run overnight and lost all the funds. Turns out there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run. With a martingale strategy the chances of losing are miniscule but if you play 10,000 rounds at a 0.01% of losing, you're going to lose once. And that's when you lose all your capital.
http://automatingbetfair.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/betfair-bots...
http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc). I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I o…
Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.
http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc). I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I o…