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It doesn't matter if MOND explains it, relativity is originally what made it so we can adjust for the relativistic time differences between a GPS satellite and a point on the surface of the Earth. Furthermore, even if MOND explains it this is further proof that science is needed, which was my...

Academics basically stopped releasing seminal works in the 90's on mathematical finance. The stuff you see today is lower quality and/or sparse. It could be most of the ones doing the work went into trading themselves, or maybe quantitative finance since the rewards are larger. Either of those...

Academic shit? You realize 90 percent of what you take for granted in your day to day life is built through knowledge right? Much of this pursuit of knowledge is funded by government research grants. Who else would pay for a massive super computer that all students can access to run experiments...

This thread is sort of dead but here is an interesting link. http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/wavelets/hurst/

Realize this thread is a bit old, however I do have a couple points here. 1) Brute force optimization is still optimization. 2) Optimizing in this case is NP-Complete. There are ways that may cut down on the optimization time but in the worst case you will always have the possibility of...

Why don't you piss off and get into a forum covering the topic you want to cover? This is a topic about seeing patterns in random walks, and it developed into more of a conversation about theory. There is no need to be a prick, dickhead.

I am the previous post I believe you are mentioning. I am indeed a math major grad student. I work for a trading PLATFORM company which is broker independent. I mainly do coding support. However, I trade Forex myself moderately successfully. I make more than I lose, and spent quite awhile...

What were you? An art PhD? Try for a minute to realize that there is a universe out there that exists which is not totally understood, and then stretch your mind for a minute to realize that many people came before you and spent their whole lives studying it and discovering things you do not...

Even mathematicians and some other scientists, who use a form of language called "mathematics" to understand reality, realize its an approximation to reality. There are paradoxes that exist which do not makes much sense using our "math" language. There's even something called "Godel's...

Of course. The market isn't random. Its a chaotic system. I.e. it is a highly nonlinear system that has feedback loops which exist sometimes and other times seem to not exist. These sort of systems appear random, but are not. The issue is that human beings are not always rational. They...

Well, let me correct YOU and tell you its quite common. We have a couple people in our department graduating this year with a PhD after spending two to three years working full time and going for a PhD part time. This sounds like not many, but even at my former university, which had a very large...

I went to Montana State for my undergraduate degree, then went to University of Houston for my MS in Applied Math. The University of Houston is a tier one research university, and they have a very difficult graduate program compared to the majority of other schools. Its no Princeton, but its not...

Im sorry, but you are wrong. PhD's are no different than anyone else, though my experience is limited to those that specialize in science. Not all of them are more intelligent than the average person, but many of them are. Some of them have quirks, but so do guys that play DnD or WoW in their...

I don't understand the hostility some traders have towards academics. You realize they are probably a lot more educated than you are? Many of them are also more intelligent? How the hell do they come up with all the science which enables things like GPS, CPU's, cell phones, airplanes, satelites...

I don't understand what your problem is. Academics actually try to study things in precise, quantifiable ways and most make steady income well above the average American. A typical professor makes between 70-120k a year, they have job security since they have tenure, and they get awesome...