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Links for May 26th :

• St. Louis Fed: How to devalue your currency –
• Welcome to VoltDB | VoltDB – May is nearly over. It's time for yet another new webscale database system.
• Cognitive Biases – A Visual Study Guide by the Royal Society of Account Planning –
• WARNING: American Express fails miserably at basic security. –
• pandas – Project Hosting on Google Code – pandas is a python package providing convenient data structures for time series, cross-sectional, or any other form of “labeled” data, with tools for building statistical and econometric models.

Links for May 21st :

• MonoDroid – Mono for Android Beta Program – Miguel de Icaza – Frikking sweet. Full dynamic language runtime support included.
• Debunking Michael Lewis’ Subprime Short Hagiography « naked capitalism –
• The Early Bird Gets the Worm – A whole lotta calculus and greeks to prove that kids are expensive. Economists need better things to study.
• Income splitting for the ethically shady – Hey – you too can split your income with your spouse. Just divorce them. This does not seem like a winning plan.
• Ontario has same Deficit as California? –

Links for May 17th :

• Land Registry Office Locations – Ontario.ca – Land Registry Office has all housing sale prices
• [Risk Magazine, Overhaus] Himalaya Options.pdf (application/pdf Object) – Complex equity derivatives – Mountain options pricing
• How to check Whether your Mac has the 32-bit EFI or 64-bit EFI –
• Gambling with Other People’s Money | Mercatus –
• Programming with Judy: C LanguageJudy Version 4.0 –
• CRF++: Yet Another CRF toolkit – CRF++ is a simple, customizable, and open source implementation of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for segmenting/labeling sequential data. CRF++ is designed for generic purpose and will be applied to a variety of NLP tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition, Information Extraction and Text Chunking.

Links for May 7th :

• QuickFIX/J – Free, Open Source Java FIX engine – QuickFIX/J is a full featured messaging engine for the FIX protocol.
• Fixing the backspace key with OS X and Linux Screen | Paul Maunders | Web log –
• Apple Isn’t the Problem. Wall Street’s Big Banks are the Problem. – Say what you will about Apple's sketchy developer licenses – but whatever 'crime' they are commiting – it's smalll beans in comparison to the shenanigans on Wall Street.
• notes.variogr.am – Broadcasting your logs with RabbitMQ and Python –
• regexml – Project Hosting on Google Code – Regular expressions + XML. It's absurdist comedy for programmers.

Links for March 12th :

• humble software development – Finance Financial Graphs –
• JNumeric – Numeric ported to Jython 2.5 – A port of JNumeric to Jython 2.5.1. Most core features of Numeric are available.
• The most complete list of -XX options for Java 6 JVM – Amazing – I've never even heard of most of these
• William K. Black: How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance’s Five Fatal Flaws –
• Eventlet Networking Library – Asynchronous network I/O using coroutines in Python

Links for March 9th :

• Refinancing tempting at these rates – The Globe and Mail –
• The Toyota Witch Hunt – BusinessWeek –
• API Documentation – Efficient similarity search by implementing different data structures for indexing metric spaces. Basically – a bk-tree.
• http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/formencode – Nice article on FormEncode – because the Pylons docs are frankly kind of lacking
• SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave –