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My experience with big data
Big Data My background is a bit unique in that I have had the opportunity to work intensively with three very different types of (very) big data: computational genomic data, retail transactional...
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Why C# is an Awesome Programming Language (Part 1, Background)
As the case with many Gen-X developers (or perhaps even Baby Boomers), I’ve worked with a wide variety of programming languages, but almost invariably the development environment for large scale...
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Why C# is an Awesome Programming Language (Part 2, Specifics)
In my previous post, I’ve very briefly covered the history in the evolution of the C-esque languages, and concluded with the release of C# by Microsoft in the late 1990s. C#, is and was, a direct...
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In Defense of Automated Trading
In Defense of Automated Trading In the past several years, there has been an onerous amount of invective hurled at “high-frequency trading”, “algorithmic trading”, and their synonymous brethren. The...
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Capturing, Storing and Backtesting CTS/CQS Tick Data in C#/.NET
Tick data is the lifeblood of the capital markets. Unlike order book data, which can be stuffed, stale, and away from the inside market in the majority of cases, tick data represents actionable quotes...
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Why Interest Rates Will Asymptotically Approach Zero Forever (Part 1,...
There has been much discussion and chattering in the financial and mainstream media regarding the possibility that interest rates may increase because of reduced action by th FED. Across the Atlantic,...
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Why Interest Rates Will Asymptotically Approach Zero Forever (Part 2 –...
Why Interest Rates Will Asymptotically Approach Zero Forever (Part 2 – Specifics) by Srikant Krishna (sri@srikantkrishna.com ) In the previous post we had set the stage after the largest credit (read:...
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On the Diabatic Process and Standards of Living
On the Diabatic Process and Standards of Living by Srikant Krishna (sri@srikantkrishna.com) In thermodynamics, an adiabatic system is one that is isolated with respect to the transfer of heat. An...
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Why SNAP (Food Stamps) and the Baltic Dry Index are Excellent Measures of the...
Why SNAP and Baltic Dry are Excellent Measures of the Real Economy by Srikant Krishna (sri@srikantkrishna.com) Economics and finance were subjects that I had originally neither possessed a modicum of...
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Reveling in NJ
The recent bankruptcy filings by the $2.4 billion Atlantic City, NJ casino Revel should be an eye-opener for those who continue to insist that a “recovery” is underway – especially in the commercial...
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