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09-20-2024 , 01:59 PM

#17976

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

Who’s they?

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09-20-2024 , 03:38 PM

#17977

lastcardcharlie

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Never mind. I was feeling nostalgic for Drinking Birds.

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09-23-2024 , 05:08 AM

#17978

Gregory Illinivich

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They's who. That's who.

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09-23-2024 , 10:11 PM

#17979

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,440

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Never mind. I was feeling nostalgic for Drinking Birds.

I have three of them

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09-24-2024 , 03:21 AM

#17980

lastcardcharlie

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Mesmeric, aren't they?

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09-25-2024 , 09:44 AM

#17981

PairTheBoard

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We dream about what we need to dream about until we don't need to dream about it. Then we dream about something else.

PairTheBoard

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09-25-2024 , 06:28 PM

#17982

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Mesmeric, aren't they?

They are. They also help me write statistical models by not talking at me while I am trying to work

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09-25-2024 , 07:28 PM

#17983

lastcardcharlie

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Statistical models of what?

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09-25-2024 , 08:51 PM

#17984

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Statistical models of what?

Financial instruments. Mostly VIX futures (premium at various price levels) and ETF (momentum/trend and trend reversal) stuff.

It is kind of fun. Teasing out very weak (but pervasive and persistent) effects of variables on probability distributions of returns.

Nothing remotely groundbreaking. Just practitioner stuff.

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09-26-2024 , 04:02 PM

#17985

Zeno

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Statistical models of what?

A random walk through London that also includes stopping at every bar you encounter. 24 hour time limit. Let me know the results.

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09-26-2024 , 04:13 PM

#17986

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

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I think you need a starting point. Make it parliament.

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09-26-2024 , 04:27 PM

#17987

lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

Financial instruments. Mostly VIX futures (premium at various price levels) and ETF (momentum/trend and trend reversal) stuff.

Aren't you up against supercomputers trying to do the same?

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09-27-2024 , 04:49 PM

#17988

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,617

Computers are only as good as the programs that run them. All written by humans.

Is there a computer that writes its own programs and Thinks independently?

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09-27-2024 , 11:43 PM

#17989

Gregory Illinivich

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Originally Posted by Zeno

Computers are only as good as the programs that run them. All written by humans.

Is there a computer that writes its own programs and Thinks independently?

No, but there are a lot of AI proponents that claim AI can do this. Ironically enough, they also argue against the idea that humans are capable of such a feat.

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09-28-2024 , 01:29 PM

#17990

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Aren't you up against supercomputers trying to do the same?

Sort of. The successful machine learning trading is mostly doing high-frequency trading, which is a game I do not attempt to play.

Also, I'm (hopefully) still better than a supercomputer at determining whether a model makes theoretical sense.

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10-06-2024 , 06:52 PM

#17991

PairTheBoard

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I fast-forward through commercials because they're mostly re-runs.

PairTheBoard

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10-11-2024 , 06:46 PM

#17992

MacOneDouble

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This guy's whole deal is walking into dangerous places all alone with a camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gYp9WSLr6c&t=2s

He visited Dublin and tried his best to find trouble but it was underwhelming. He then moved onto London which was equally so.
I wish I was an advisor to this guy in advance. I could have sent him into neighborhoods that ironically would have been the best content he ever created, or so I imagine.
No knock to this guy, he has balls.

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10-11-2024 , 06:51 PM

#17993

Gregory Illinivich

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Originally Posted by MacOneDouble

This one is fun.

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10-11-2024 , 07:11 PM

#17994

MacOneDouble

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That's Bald. I've seen it. And actually posted this same video about 6 bullets ago.

But yeah, I got a thing for these free spirit guys.

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10-18-2024 , 02:15 PM

#17995

MacOneDouble

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I see two problems with lying down in a random place in public. However, they are debatable. There may be no good reason not to have bodies sprawled all over the place

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10-24-2024 , 03:53 AM

#17996

PairTheBoard

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If nothing's perfect then what is it a concept of when it is, as it must be, a flawed concept of perfect?

PairTheBoard

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10-25-2024 , 03:40 PM

#17997

lastcardcharlie

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Some things are perfect. If you get all the questions right in a quiz or exam, for example, that's perfect.

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10-25-2024 , 03:54 PM

#17998

lastcardcharlie

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300 at ten-pin bowling, hole-in-one at golf, 155 at snooker, 501 game in nine darts...

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10-25-2024 , 09:27 PM

#17999

MacOneDouble

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I got into crypto at the very top of the last bull cycle. Such a noob. What’s worse - I called the bottom and didn’t go balls to the wall. Why? Because I doubted the nature of time per se and that this thing is just a cycle. Will I get it right on the next cycle? Will there even be a next cycle? Aha