@j_bettany - 10 Sep 2012
How do you measure veracity? Meta-data can help. In terms of market movement, true & false stories have impact #quantbattle
Niche Clever Social Browser
How do you measure veracity? Meta-data can help. In terms of market movement, true & false stories have impact #quantbattle
Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer | John Graham-Cumming
Wow. A patented system for algorithmically compiling data into book form http://t.co/i2vinROg
Interesting: Storing data in individual molecules http://t.co/9k20BRsf and storing data in DNA: http://t.co/0dEZqKdl
Open Source Finance 1. QuantLib – My Interview with QuantLib co-founder, Luigi Ballabio http://t.co/DFmoHb6CBe #quant #rstats @lballabio
Book 30% off – THE ESSAYS OF WARREN BUFFETT (THIRD EDITION) – use code MON30 when ordering on http://t.co/PCt8FVcsSF @wiley_finance
How algorithms rule the world http://t.co/guW9m8rxaV
With nanostructured glass, scientists have demonstrated recording & retrieval of 5D digital data by femtosecond laser http://t.co/HBztzuX0jt
@mandrillapp Hi. Does Mandrill respect Merge Fields in templates based on Mailchimp lists?
The API-economy is coming and fast http://t.co/99IQYx0K6N
Actually rather cool: Minecraft game adds Ordnance Survey GB terrain data http://t.co/GMMkb2kVqF
The first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes has been unveiled http://t.co/UNHoJCj7CZ
Argh! It looks like I was hacked. I've secured the account but apologies if you got a message, and thank you all for alerting me!
RT @nzzdata: Always remind yourself! #stats #data http://t.co/9oA3txdVUi
Computer cracks Erdős discrepancy problem - but no human brain can check the answer – http://t.co/9iLoTivYsc
Blimey. According to this, a pregnant woman’s marketing data is worth 15 times as much as the average person’s http://t.co/cUO8ITDe2D
MIT Students Battle State’s Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner’s Source Code http://t.co/BLm9EAsW6k
In May, a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm appointed an algorithm to its board of directors. http://t.co/4ZY8p2vLjM
"Constraint Programming" and the Rosetta/Philae Optimisation Problem – http://t.co/OkQaQ2vp1P @developerworks via @JFPuget
Definitely worth it: Firefox Tracking protection reduces median load time on top sites by 44% + 39% data usage http://t.co/rUj9g792LV
Computers, and computing, are broken.http://t.co/xzSVf55CTw
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams http://t.co/02rHeWYoJ1
Lawyers express concern over ministerial code rewrite which removes requirement to comply with international law.
Senior bitcoin developer says currency 'failed experiment'
https://t.co/dto4cSY1QD
"When a company makes your feed algorithmic, it’s the moment that you’re being squeezed as an asset"
@ArglesJonathan @MartinBelam feel a bit sad about slow demise of RSS. I like the mashup potential of structured data. RIP Yahoo! Pipes.
@ThreeUK link to Terms & Conditions on 3 Rescue Package has been down on your site (via Addons) for months. How can I get them?
RT @econromesh: Bristol festival of economics next week @FestivalofIdeas @DianeCoyle1859 – here's the #economicsfest programme: https://t.c…
What we all need is strong and stable neurolinguistic programming.
RT @WiredUK: The EU is introducing 8,000 free Wi-Fi spots across Europe https://t.co/STgMG89JXd
RT @timbray: What a really, REALLY good drone operator can do; astonishing: https://t.co/dp2YVDtbgQ
RT @Alea_: "Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care" https://t.co/AccY2Mb9xx
RT @clancynewyork: Extraordinary video of Cambridge Analytica data scientist and whistleblower Christopher Wylie, interviewed by the Guardi…
I wonder how feasible it would be to program a drone to fly randomly in a defined airspace before returning to a set location to recharge, while another drone takes off. Doesn't seem like it would be too hard a technical challenge… And removes the need for an operator.
RT @TheStalwart: A software engineer lost his life's savings of $422,000 in the Quadriga CX crypto exchanage collapse https://t.co/Sf9sD1qo…
"the first systematic use of emissions data to inform the debate about intergenerational responsibility for climate change"
RT @garwboy: A thread
Earlier this week, I was asked to guest on a well-known BBC Radio discussion programme. I said yes, sure, do that al…
RT @j_bettany: Ultrafast Broadband meets the stated objectives of HS2 much better than HS2, providing a platform for VR / AR which has a mu…
Sajid Javid aims for the highest density of lies in a @BBCr4today programme interview ever!
Either the Post Office upped its game or ALOT of people dropped out overnight but I'm at the front of the queue. I've only been waiting 40 minutes now to get a mobile confirmation code I had to re-request twice because it didn't work… Ho hum.
Gave up after 90 minutes of confirmation code failure at 1.30am. I wonder if I'm going to be back in the queue….
RT @ChrisGiles_: Sufficient data worldwide now exists to conclude that, to date, the UK has the highest rate of excess deaths in the Corona…
RT @JanelleCShane: I've been previewing the new @OpenAI API, and honestly despite myself I was a bit nervous when I typed "go ahead and try…
“The future is going to be where trillions of quantum circuits are being executed every day on quantum hardware behind the scenes through these cloud-enabled services embedded in software applications.” https://t.co/0sXnLIisyp
RT @EuSpRIG: @j_bettany British Nuclear Fuels Limited falsified safety critical data on nuclear fuel manufacturing using spreadsheets. MI5…
Worrying times. Youngest progeny correctly entered his mum's credit card number and security code from memory. Yikes.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect might be a data artefact.
Algorithm, design me a plotline. Toggle exploitative, ON. https://t.co/Fr6hBHSSQ0
RT @DrAaronB: “. . . we can identify our narratives about our past as old programming and take it less seriously: not as some sort of objec…
I'm rather pleased to have finally launched https://t.co/EPNtXjjHxI – a new resource focussed exclusively on coding for Quants.
This looks a bit dodgy to me, but does a post-GDPR data regime in the UK mean we're going to have to update website Privacy Policies again?
RT @ChrisGiles_: 🚨🚨Nerd alert:
Sunak has told his independent* fiscal watchdog to use out of date data for the Budget forecast
It’ll gua…
Nurdles!
I bet that WhatsApp group has got pretty interesting.
Maybe there's hope for recovering those missing mails and WhatsApp messages after all!
@BBCPM – The cookies aren't going! The government is just intending to stop letting us know what and how many there are, which makes our data footprints more opaque and vulnerable to exploitation.
New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.
A study of the runtime, memory usage, and energy consumption of 27 well-known #software languages…. 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀.
RT @TheFractalist: The #Colour #Code
#fractal #fractalart #digitalart #art #geometry #geometricart #complexity #artist #abstractart #abstr…
Blimey. Neural tissue as a computational substrate.
Colour Coding
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for."
– Georgia O'Keeffe
#fractal #art #geometry #mathart #modernart #Fractals #fractalgeometry #pattern #colourful #quotes #sacredgeometry #georgiaokeeffe https://t.co/Kj9Flhj4d6
Yikes
"As the sophistication of these organoid systems increases, it is critical for the community to examine the myriad of neuroethical issues that surround biocomputing systems incorporating human neural tissue."
RT @deedydas: All languages covey information at a similar rate when spoken (39bits/s).
Languages that are spoken faster have less informa…
RT @DaleVince: Turns out the millionaire exodus was a complete work of fiction…. built on dodgy data from a company flogging golden passp…
Go deeper
Start something
