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Machine Learning Street Talk

it is funny how people with liberal tendencies resort to "it is a free market" when it is convenient to the them and if not they say it is rigged for people with power

When should I use XMPP and and RPC ?

I really liked the approximation algorithms from a french university

Investor visas are not terrible. EB5 is great provided you have 500k to put in a single investment.

Why are governments around the globe so keen in taking down Uber?

People still listen to Naomi Wolf? I was really wanting to like the "Shock Doctrine" but being from South America, I found the history she portrayed of SA to be totally inaccurate.

There have always been "market-makers" why do you care if they are algorithmic or human ?

why is the volatility a factor ? My intuition say that you with high volatility is a lot easier to pick the wrong equities. Is that correct ?

Can you point to resources/books where I can read more about design as is taught in CS degrees? I'm curious on their problem solving strategies compared to mine.

That's easy : Simple made easy by Rich Hickey

off-topic : was kinda cool that in the video there was a guy with a Punta del Este T-shirt, that's where I'm from.

I'm a rubyist and now Clojure convert. The code does not look difficult to me, but i'm sure you can make it much more concise if you were to add some mutation in the Clojure code. As my career progressed i found that I don't care almost at all about syntax but semantics. Clojure offers far better semantics for almost everything including Data Structures, concurrency and meta-programming. That's were the true power of the language is on its semantics.

While sometimes it's great that you have the option to use C bindings in Ruby, my take is that if possible you should write stuff in Ruby when doing Ruby. If that's not the case you are not doing ruby, you are doing C.