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Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Apple Tablet looks like a bigger iPhone that sports an awesome UI packed in a beautiful 10.1-inch screen.
“The tablet combines the functions of both netbook and kindle, an ebook reader. It has virtual keyboard for text entry and a webcam for video conferencing.” More info at TechMeme
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged Apple, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iSlate, Apple Tablet, computers, Information Technology, iPad, iPhone, iSlate
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The unsavory and dangerous practice of financial firms betting against their clients needs to be thoroughly investigated.
New York Times editorial against Goldman Sachs and the other financial firms. Humm. I agree that some practices are evil, but do the NYT know that hedging is good?
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, Regulations
Tagged derivatives, Finance, financial betting, Financial Markets, futures, Hedging, swaps
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Don’t let the best leaves the boat.
Jeffrey Harris, the chief economist at the CFTC who last year said he could find no direct link between speculation and high energy prices, is leaving the agency.
Platforms, markets, and bytes
Sean Park: Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you.
The iPod Touch is the future of the prediction markets.
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged Apple, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, computer, computers, Information Technology, iPhone, iPod Touch
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Robin Hanson’s futarchy is “retarded”.
Saturday, January 16, 2010 Debate between Robin Hanson and blogger Mencius Moldbug about futarchy, “a subject on which fur has flown over the blogosphere.”
Posted in Events & Meetings
Tagged events, futarchy, meetings, prediction markets, Robin Hanson
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Jed Christiansen is not dead.
He is working at Google as “a Strategic Partner Manager in the EMEA Reseller team”. Another proof that prediction markets don’t put food on the table of their most ardent advocates.
Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second
Automated transactions executed at lightning speed
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations, Software
Tagged algorithmic trades, algorithmic trading, algorithmic transactions, algorithms, automated trades, automated transactions, hedge funds, high frequency trading, high-frequency automated trading, high-frequency traders, quant funds, quantitative analysis, statistical patterns, traders, trades, trading, transactions
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