{"id":2491,"date":"2009-05-14T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2009-05-14T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T08:00:55","slug":"potpourri-for-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2491","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $200"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of great stuff on kottke<\/a> recently<\/p>\n

Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker<\/a> Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

Three tweets: (Thufferin’ Thuccotath!)<\/p>\n

of arms. Tom Wolfe is right, I think, when admonishes young writers to ignore the old advice about \u201cwriting what<\/p>\n

you know,\u201d and instead write about what you don\u2019t know. If you have to learn about something from scratch, he<\/p>\n

argues, you don\u2019t bring any lazy preconceptions. John said I was welcome to give it a try. \u201cThink about trying a <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Advice from Rat Traders<\/a><\/p>\n

Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets. Using our own methodology in accordance with well-established animal training techniques, our subjects learn to recognize pattens in historical stock and futures data as well as generating trading signals. We provide solutions for tick based trading data and day based data. RATTRADERS rats can be trained exclusively for any financial market segment. They outperform most human traders and represent a much more economic solution for your trading desk. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only-slightly-3-d art: Simon Schubert<\/a> (small folds in paper) and Marco Maggi<\/a> (slides 06-9 through 06-12 are “pencil on aluminum foil”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of great stuff on kottke recently Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009 Three tweets: (Thufferin’ Thuccotath!) of arms. Tom … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-business","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}