Recent content by bigdavediode

This thread is priceless. Has everyone taken screen shots? So far we've learned in this thread that Mitt Romney hasn't attacked enough, especially wrt "We built this" which was only the actual theme from the entire RNC convention That Mitt Romney has kept his head down. That...

You may want to check out the "curse of dimensionality." Five dimensions is probably too many, depending on each input's error range for your NN/genetic algorithm/other to resolve.

I haven't posted any responses to you in almost a year. And since you're reverting to Dr. Roy Spencer, creationist, it's worth mentioning that he apparently doesn't understand that "the greenhouse effect is not about how much heat is being released by the atmosphere into space, because that...

“We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is that he is right-wing and a Christian fundamentalist.” So far Mr. Breivik has not been linked to any anti-jihadist groups, he said. (snip)...

Choosing different sample intervals or times becomes one method of smoothing. So why would you think that highs and lows offer less noise? After all, they're only the highs and lows of fat-tailed, noisy data. Try an experiment: try your highs and lows charting based on different start...

Hi Alan, pleasure to read your posts. Ralph Vince has a fair bit of mathematics on this in the book Portfolio Management Formulas (yes, with the caveat of the original optimal f system being, shall we say, less that optimal) relating to streaks and max expected drawdowns.

Not what I was getting at. If you're going to develop an automated system, especially using NN's you'll need clean, detrended, normalized data or the NN or other logic network will give non-normal results. To do this you first need to understand the data, especially seasonality, and this...

May I give you some advice? Many traders appear to be misguided in trying to implement automated trading via APIs et al rather than performing basic data analysis first. Those entering the market are so driven to trade NOW and immediate automation of the actual trading, they under emphasize...

Well best of luck to you on your quest to convince people that nuclear isn't dead. Hopefully you guys can keep pumping out enough GE reactors to third world countries to keep the industry alive for a while, like Altria does with smoking.

The market share that a product has is not connected to its qualities as a real-time operating system. Linux can be altered to be a reasonable RTOS, like QNX.

If they do this is they will probably not go for French Areva EPRs instead of Russia reactors which are cheaper and give them the flexibility to produce weapons grade material. And what's the US going to lean on them with, exactly? What does the US have that other countries care about?

16 reactors by 2030? I wonder why an Arab country in a massive sun belt would want 16 reactors in such a short amount of time. Is it a genuine interest in nuclear power? Might be. Or, the nuclear industry could just be causing nuclear weapons proliferation again.

As goes India, China and Bangladesh, so goes the world.

I appreciate that you like nuclear very, very much. And I won't bother to critique your posts (okay, just a wee bit -- the US is not the world, when someone writes a paragraph explaining what costs aren't included in nuclear cost/kwh estimates, don't just repost cost estimates that exclude...

Luckily they're not putting all their eggs in one basket. I can't speak for Germany, but actually the expansion potential for hydro in the US is quite massive and is currently being developed. According to Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, total hydro output can be doubled in the US without...