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So perhaps, instead of pointing out your own personal privilege (good for you) perhaps you could address the subject of the thread itself?

What did you study?

Agreed. But to be free to think and more importantly act in this way requires money or a financial safety net. The point is valid and is one reaon why I am in favour of increased tuition fees in the UK where I live. That is, inferior candidates will be deterred from "hiding" in the humanities...

I agree but not becau I think it is literally true. But for it to be workable practically the changes required take you to the brink of political union anyway. Th D

Of course it would. The euro would fall like a stone if Germany bailed out. In fact it might collapse completely; whch suggests you believe germany is an economic island utterly immune to any turmoil that might embroil Europe or elsewhere. And because the mark "was" strong doesn't mean it...

What is he expected to say in response to remarks made that are equally absent of fact? Please get in their faces and accuse them of hubris too. Now let's have a reality check here. Iceland allowed it's bank's to go down cos it could. It's less than a minnow in the grand scheme of things...

As far as I'm aware, it's a well established fact that C# iteration is much slower than C++. So, can't the iterative elements of the code be externalized to C++ dll(s)? And would that not marginalize the point behind this benchmark to the point of it being meaningless? I do respect the...

I know little about zuckerburg and so won't comment on him personaly. However, can you describe what you think the "next level" that can be mastered by someone else in 9 months and sweep facebook way? Perhaps you think the next level is about management luck or insight while i think it is...

From looking at the parameters james used i suspect that the particularly wide settings used for the long period average led to the performance terrain being too unstable for the swarm to get traction against given the weakly converging adaptation scheme that I touched on in my previous post...

I'm commenting on this thread late and so apologize if it has moved on from when this comment was made. But since I can be regarded as falling into the expert category on how this software works I can add some useful comments on the adpatation/optimization process. What I think people are...

Perhaps, but not for the reasons you suggest. None of these will spark a knee jerk currency collapse in the way you imply. And readers should not confuse "popular unrest" with the idea that the general public does not buying into the need for tackling the deficit. I've encountered noone...

No he is not. To describe someone as a socialist you have to first understand what socialism is. By applying that crude caricature of socialism that has long existed in the US you show that you clearly do not. Note that, before you rush to brand me as one, I am not a socialist. But I have...

"Frankly, I know nothing about Kelly's size and I have no interest in finding out. As for you guys with all of your numeric specificity, you might do well to consider Sebastian Mallaby's words on page 231 of his book, More Money Than God: "The real lesson of LTCM's failure was not that its...

I think the largest portfolio against which this has been independently benchmarked is the futures truth portfolio. I'm not sure what the components are (the are slected by futures truth) but I think it's a bit smaller than this. I see where you're coming from with your thinking. That is...

Hi, I have something of a problem with the implied premise of these tests. That is, the "edge" of the entry is independent of the exit. I cannot see how that can ever be true. Therefore, exits matter - alot. Stops do little other than helping to delimit risk. I would also add that a...

Wars cannot be won if the rules of civilized societies are consistently applied.

The big question is, which tools. I long ago abandoned trying to merge fundemantal data with technical data streams. Have the tectonic plates of retail software evolution moved suddenly? Thx D

Britain's problems have been characterized by knowldgable commentators as being on a par with those of the US. Britain doesn't need "fixing". Like many nations it has large debts arising out of this crisis and like many nations faces years of deleveraging to sort it out. It is not the most...

Let's get one thing straight. Britain will not experience the 1970's again. Different age, and a totally different set of circumstances. Any nation is to a large extent the sum of it's talent base, ie. it's people. As Britain is not, and will not be "finished" in the talent department any...

Depends to the degree of "finishedness" to which you refer. Britian is less finished than it was in the 70 but more finished than it was a decade ago. Germany is less finished than it was a decade ago but more finished than it was 2 decades ago. And of course, it is very much less finished than...