Monday, March 3, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: 'The least trusted company in the least trusted sectorâ

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PST

Last week, when delivering his announcements of Royal Bank of Scotland’s continuing losses (£42 billion worth since 2008 and £8.2 billion last year alone), Ross McEwan said that the bank is “the least trusted company in the least trusted sector”.read more...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Interface Languages and Feature Discovery

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 10:36 AM PST

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Data blog.]Here are a few more observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata Santa Clara conference.Interface languages: Python, R, SQL (and Scala)This is a great time to be a data scientist or data engineer who relies on Python or R. For starters there are developer tools that simplify setup, package installation, and...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Thoughts on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter & Report

Posted: 02 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PST

I’m going to try to take this topically.  Here goes:read more...

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