Friday, May 22, 2015

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Google a step closer to developing machines with human-like intelligence

Posted: 22 May 2015 02:56 AM PDT

Google is working on a new type of algorithm designed to encode thoughts as sequences of numbers  http://t.co/nSO0HSNXVz — moneyscience (@moneyscience) May…

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Data science makes an impact on Wall Street - The Practical Quant's blog - MoneyScience

Posted: 22 May 2015 02:56 AM PDT

The Practical #Quant: Data science makes an impact on Wall Street http://t.co/m5PNKuZL9d — moneyscience (@moneyscience) May 21, 2015

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Flash Crashes and Swiss Francs: Market Liquidity Takes a Holiday - iMFdirect's blog - MoneyScience

Posted: 22 May 2015 02:56 AM PDT

.@IMFNews - Flash Crashes and Swiss Francs: Market Liquidity Takes a Holiday http://t.co/VpCVtpB6ZM — moneyscience (@moneyscience) May 20, 2015

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MoneyScience: MoneyScience's event: MoneyScience Financial Training - Introduction to QuantLib Development with Luigi Ballabio

Posted: 22 May 2015 02:56 AM PDT

Introduction to QuantLib Development 3-day Intensive Training with Luigi Ballabio - June 29, London http://t.co/AiBrbwQvqh — moneyscience (@moneyscience) May…

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Published / Preprint: Analysis of the most important variables which determine innovation among rural entrepreneurs. (arXiv:1505.05639v1 [stat.AP])

Posted: 21 May 2015 05:37 PM PDT

The present research aims to highlight the main factors influencing the development of entrepreneurial innovation in a rural environment and to perform an empirical study with the purpose of assessing the main problems in rural development. The research performed is mostly of a quantitative nature, being based on the use of the questionnaire as research tool, although some of the questions were...

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Published / Preprint: Product-Mix Auctions and Tropical Geometry. (arXiv:1505.05737v1 [cs.GT])

Posted: 21 May 2015 05:37 PM PDT

In a recent and ongoing work, Baldwin and Klemperer found a connection between tropical geometry and economics. They gave a sufficient condition for the existence of competitive equilibrium in product-mix auctions of indivisible goods. This result, which we call the Unimodularity Theorem, can also be traced back to the work of Danilov, Koshevoy, and Murota. We introduce auction theory for a...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Data science makes an impact on Wall Street

Posted: 21 May 2015 10:16 AM PDT

[A version of this article appears on the O'Reilly Radar.]Having started my career in industry, working on problems in finance, IĆ¢€™ve always appreciated how challenging it is to build consistently profitable systems in this extremely competitive domain. When I served as quant at a hedge fund in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I worked primarily with price data (time-series). I quickly found that...

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Vendor News: May 21, 2015 - SS&C Announces Quarterly Dividend

Posted: 21 May 2015 06:08 AM PDT