February 2012
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if you say anything, you'll lose everything
elevenpigs:
society today.
Grim? Yes. True? I hope not. I hope not…
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S&P Capital IQ Acquires R2 Financial Technologies →
mcgrawhillcompanies:
S&P Capital IQ acquired R² Financial Technologies, a leading provider of advanced risk and scenario-based analytics to traders, portfolio and risk managers for pricing, hedging and capital management across asset classes.
Lou Eccleston, President of S&P Capital IQ, said…
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Borderlines: The First Google Maps War →
How a simple online map almost caused a violent conflict in Central America.
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Iotops homepage →
tingletech:
pip install iotop
Make sure to check the page footer, where the valid XHTML and CSS badges are. There’s another one, right-most corner of the page. It reads along these lines:
“Hopefully this page is 100% compliant with your expectations”
in very small type. Yet there for those who might look. And laugh.
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Occupy's Architecture
X marks the spot via The New Inquiry
An essay on the history of Occupy’s architecture. Literally.
Travel back in time to old New York City.
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Comic shop with a lovely view from outside →
I’m guessing Manhattan, probably East 23rd Street, between Third Avenue and Park Avenue? Not certain.
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Protocol Version 1.2 Released →
cryptocatapp:
We’ve updated the Cryptocat protocol to version 1.2. Both the web and Chrome app versions have had their codebases updated to reflect the changes, so Chrome app users will need to update their Cryptocat app in order to be able to use the latest version of the protocol along with those accessing…
Interesting feature here:
We’ve added a requirement for clients to verify the...
A Range of Corporate Tax Rates →
The Obama administration’s new federal corporate tax proposal aims to simplify the code that has resulted in widely varying federal tax rates. This chart shows the range of S.& P. 500 companies’ ratios of total taxes paid — federal, state, local and foreign — to pretax earnings for 2005 to 2010.
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not-not-not-TUMBLR STAFF BLOG: GIVEAWAY ALERT
*hxxp://i.imgur.com/lq3zU.png* Dearest dataanxiety, In response to the tons of annoying Apple product related spam recently cluttering your dashboard, we have teamed up with Apple’s development team to ACTUALLY GIVE AWAY APPLE PRODUCTS!
*hxxp://tumblrlinks.com/?applepromo*
Under the condition that you agree to “test” the product, by allowing basic debug data to be...
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Starbucks pulled into gun debate →
A group that aims to reduce gun violence says it is boycotting the coffee giant Tuesday because Starbucks has not stopped customers from bringing guns into stores when the law allows it.
Emphasis mine. It is certainly ironic that Starbucks and 2nd Amendment types would be aligned. But it isn’t reasonable to expect Starbucks to break local laws. The company is complying with local...
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“My new squeeze just replied to my text:
‘What’s Gmail?’
Wonder...”
– Things: Danger Will Robinson Danger!
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Origin of NoSQL
nosql:
Where NoSQL comes from:
geek & poke. Original title & link: Origin of NoSQL, NoSQL databases © myNoSQL
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“Before I talk about my troubles, let me tell you about a book, “Computer...”
– How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy, via @topfife. Via new-aesthetic
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Risk Management Reference Extravaganza
This was a little dated, but still useful (nice art too).
Academic & Central Bank Papers on the topic of Risk Management
Here’s an even better one:
Economic (Risk) Capital How To - References
It is a list of articles, with URLs, of theory and opinion about risk and its effect on economic capital. It is unusual, worthwhile, because a wide range of ideas about relevance and method of...
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The Irish Success Story →
Not.
Paul Krugman post in NY Times, with chart
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Bin packing with Icon
One-dimensional bin packing is useful for applications that minimize use of space and/ or time. The goal is to pack objects into the minimum number of fixed-size bins.
I enjoyed how a cute little application by local talent gave a nice visual comparison of bin packing algorithms. Icon, developed at Arizona State University says this about bin packing:
It is a hard problem for which many different...
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Lost Type Co-op →
mikeindustries:
A nice collection of pay-what-you-will typefaces from Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran.
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Financial regulation assortment
Risk mitigation for European sovereign debt
alea:
EFSF: European Sovereign Bond Protection Facility launched goo.gl/lSrd4
— Alea (@Alea_) February 17, 2012
Alea has embedded Twitter content very nicely on his Tumblr. I haven’t set it up properly here. Go have a look at Alea’s tumblr if you’re curious.
Risk mitigation for OTC Derivatives
Here’s something from the BIS...
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung via hazeltwotwiggs
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Reverse Polish Prefix
That’s a photo of the HP-35 calculator, predecessor of my beloved HP-11C for scientific calculations (and 12-C too, for financial calculations). Both used Reverse Polish Notation, or Reverse Polish Prefix as I recall, which is the BEST.
Reverse Polish
The HP Museum has a nice page about RPN. It describes the difference between algebraic and RPN calculators, as well as the story behind...
Is Shadow Banking Really Banking? →
Find out all about Shadow Banking…. from a good source.
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“here goes nothing make chromium
Edit: Also because it will make it go faster...”
– hackedy:
See you on the other side
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Disaster preparedness
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How to annoy everyone on Tumblr
j0ethought:
• Re-blog everything
• Beg your followers to ask you something… anything
• Also suck up to each one. Tell everyone how pretty/smart/funny they are in hopes of an equally groveling response. Publish!
• Don’t bother with spelling, grammar or sentence construction. Just hit the post button early and often
• Remember if other people have said so, it makes it true. This is called...
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Password Check →
To verify this account, please prove that you are capable of love.
A special CAPTCHA from The New York Times…
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Eels back in the day... →
WulffMorgenthaler.com – Daily strip 03.02.2012
I love how one is content and the other is grumpy
Me too.
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U.S. Home Prices Drop Again: S&P Case-Shiller...
According to Standard & Poor’s, and Case-Shiller too (their housing market research partner), U.S. housing market prices are down for the third straight month, based on data through November 2011. The complete PDF with details of the latest release, hot off the press as of today 31 January 2012, is now available on the Housing Views website.
For more details on the housing market, past...
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Wall Street Prepares to Take a Sharp Pay Cut
Pay cuts are less than company operating losses on a percentage basis. Is that significant? I’m not certain. Seems like it could be, although a thorough financial statement analysis would be needed to say that with confidence.
Shareholders of Wall Street firms don’t seem to be any better off than shareholders of non-Wall Street companies.
Employees of Wall Street firms,...
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EFF is trying to help MegaUpload users retrieve...
bitshare:
If you are one of the MegaUpload users that had files uploaded to the site before the federal indictment and shut down and have lost complete access to those files, there may be something you can do about it to get those files back.
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January 2012
76 posts
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