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Perhaps Upton Sinclair Said It Better
Capital Markets interview question: In a local bar you overhear an Equity Options trader brag, in fact shout over a televised live interview with the Prime Minister, that their new trading system...
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Floating Point Optimization Question
Working on an HPC for Presidents document: Besides Hagan, Perold, Shaw, PJW, and Nick Patterson where there ever any people on the Street or the City that could “competitively” write and compile an...
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Write Latency for HFT Logging
Jones, Evan, Write Latency and Block Size, here. Don’t know him; like the data; I’ll read the blog for a bit. Let’s play I’m not going to pay a lot for this muffler. I’m thinking, just for a target,...
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Links 3 May
io9, Wikipedia’s founder will help make academic research available to all, Wow, Gowers is doing good. But it looks like Jimmy Wales is going to get to do the historic Berlin “Tear down this paywall”...
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Intel, TSMC, and Global Foundaries process variations
Re: Picking a FinQuant Platfom, here. Smart guy at a meeting this week points out you cannot simply compare quoted fab size features between different foundaries (Intel, TSMC, and Global Foundaries...
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Team Firm Risk: 0 Taleb: 2Bn (halftime)
Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday, here; or Clint Eastwood, here. Now we are going to have to endure a seemingly endless stream of Taleb’s gloating i-have-been-warning-you-about-VaR-for-years interviews; the...
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Clusterstock and the Monkey Brain
NYT, Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle, here. Weisenthal is the lead financial blogger for Business Insider, a Web site that covers the worlds of technology and finance with a mix of pithy...
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Time to Find Party B PnL on London Whale Story
Business Insider, And Now JP Morgan’s $2 Billion Trading Loss Is Already $3 Billion (And Counting), here. Ok so the reported losses are growing. Jamie Dimon said it could get worse… and it is. The JP...
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NYT, The Facebook Offering: How It Compares, here. Killer IPO chart from 1980 to Facebook. Log valuation and first day pop look the best. Blodget, Great Job, Wall Street and Facebook! The IPO Was...
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Life, Research, Fast Interconnects, Kepler, JPM, and an epic Straight White...
Tom Scott, Welcome to Life, here. Best video seen in a week via Dvorak Uncensored. Scott refers to Rudy Rucker’s post cyberpunk novel Postsingular, here. Salmon, Sell-side research isn’t inside...
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Truth:1 New York Times:0
Julia La Roche, Business Insider, Ken Langone Trashes The NYTimes And Destroys A CNBC Guest For Relying On It For Information, here. OK, I guess you can only cite the Times Book Review or David Carr on...
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