Recent content by lel4866

I wonder what it is about the internet that makes it so easy to insult people? Anyways, just because something is open source doesn't mean you want to learn it or use it.

I'm a professional programmer with more than 20 years experience writing trading systems and trading interfaces, with significant experience programming C, C++, C#, Java, AmiBroker, InteractiveBrokers, and EasyLanguage. And 10 more languages including NVidia GPU programming, which is what I'm...

The goal is to fit a real underlying process and not fit random noise. And to detect when the underlying process changes. "Curve fitting" and "optimization" are terms that have a bad public press but are used every day to find solutions to real problems in a large number of fields. Most...

yes - all of the above

A comment about the original topic...Machine Learning. This is the field I work in. However, I don't recall, after scanning through the 34 pages of this thread where anyone tried to define what they mean by Machine Learning. Academically, it is an extremely broad field. I have taken...

I think I qualify as an entrepreneur. Five companies over 40 years. One really successful, one a total failure. Three so so. None directly in the trading area. Things aren't as clear as to what's most productive as you go day to day. And no one is rational all the time except in hindsight...

http://www.dinosaurtech.com/ Works great. Well architected. You get full source code and it actually compiles. I make occassional mods, like adding new constants for my own error messages, etc. I've never run into a problem, but I haven't come close to using all the functions.

I have been a software engineer for over 40 years. I do it for a living. Right now my language of preference is C#, although I mostly use Ruby, Java and C++ at work. I would recommend either C# or Java to start with. Note that besides the language, and important issue is also the development...