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Ho John Lee | July 20th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | June 19th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Worldwide Construction of Offshore Drilling Rigs (as of January 25, 2008) – Drill ships, semi-submersible, and jack-ups, summarized from company statements.
Ho John Lee | June 13th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | May 16th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Bruce Schneier summarizes the current (bad) state of data privacy at US and UK border crossings. Personal computers are subject to full file download and investigation.
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Matt loses a raft of very nice photo equipment in his delayed checked baggage at PHL, which always seems to have its own special baggage handling issues.
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Carl Icahn’s proposed alternate board for Yahoo, presented in the style of the crew in Ocean’s Eleven.
Ho John Lee | May 15th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | May 14th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Lots of nice market maps, screeners, and charts
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Interesting Excel-based analysis tools, including integration with QuoteTracker, Interactive Brokers, and assorted backtesting tools
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AT DESPAIR, INC., we believe motivational products create unrealistic expectations, raising hopes only to dash them. That’s why we created our soul-crushingly depressing Demotivators® designs
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An interactive browser to pan, zoom, and build narrations with astronomy images of the night sky, from Microsoft Research
Ho John Lee | May 13th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Interesting data on back end implementation at Flickr, Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube as of spring 2008. Lots and lots of servers running MySQL.
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A lengthy profile of Ben Bernanke’s, his background, and his expanding efforts at the Federal Reserve in the face of the US banking system crisis.
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NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, operated by Midwest Research Institute • Battelle
Ho John Lee | May 11th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Satellite imagery before and after (April 15 and May  weather disaster in Myanmar (Burma). The river delta areas are nearly all flooded.
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Access to US government map data.
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Most of Burma/Myanmar’s spring rice production has been wiped out, adding to pressure on rice markets.
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Practice your vocabulary and help raise funds for donating rice. I was skeptical, but it doesn’t appear to be a fraud, and does actually provide interesting practice.
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“No Premium User. Please solve the Riemann Hypothesis.”
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The Myanmar/Burmese military government is largely blocking international relief for the cyclone and flooding, leading to discussion of “coercive humanitarian action”.
Ho John Lee | May 10th, 2008 | Comments are closed
(The automatic link posts stopped working as a side effect of cleaning up the keymachine.de spam attack, here’s what you missed)
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The RSI Gadget calculates the relative strength index for stock symbols. This gadget can be added to your iGoogle Homepage, Google Finance or any web page you can edit.
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A summary of seven popular methods for determining whether a market is trending or ranging.
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Random walk data can generate recognizable chart patterns. One difference with real markets is that humans placing trades based on those patterns can render them non-random.
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A game using historical stock data in which you choose to buy, sell, or hold using only the chart of price and volume bars.
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On various work in progress towards home energy consumption monitoring and recommendations for change.
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Slide deck with lots of current data on changing use patterns, growth rates, big shift towards social applications. Also see emerging markets growth.
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Six suggestions from Karl Rove (!) for Barack Obama, which seem fairly sensible.
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Slide deck with lots of current data on changing use patterns, growth rates, big shift towards social applications. Also see emerging markets growth.
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Slide deck with lots of current data on changing use patterns, growth rates, big shift towards social applications. Also see emerging markets growth.
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A cautionary anecdote on angel investing
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Slide deck with lots of current data on changing use patterns, growth rates, big shift towards social applications. Also see emerging markets growth.
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1. Dick has $1 million. Jane has $1 million. If Dick and Jane both give their $1 million to T. Boone, how many millions will he claim he can turn it into?
Ho John Lee | March 20th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | March 19th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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A collection of intraday E-Mini S&P500 charts (ES) for the past several FOMC interest rate policy change days.
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I don’t know about the “Portal or opening accessing the Universal Consciousness and other dimensionalities”, but it looks like a cool piece of furniture.
Ho John Lee | March 18th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | March 17th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | March 15th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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A collection of interesting visualization applications from around the web.
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All about Daylight Savings Time, including when different countries change their clocks each year. US DST is very early this year, compared with Europe and Asia.
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“Why are people scared? Because they don’t know what the true value of assets are. They see the accountants forcing all these firms to write down their assets to zero, even though these things are still paying as contracted, they haven’t defaulted”
Ho John Lee | March 7th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Some thoughts on the Asus Eee, Linux-based low cost systems vs more expensive WinXP/Vista models, and changing use models
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A summary of reorganization and project themes for HPL going forward. Heavy emphasis on shift from devices to service-based applications.
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The ADP National Employment ReportSM is a measure of nonfarm private employment, based on a subset of aggregated and anonymous payroll data that represents approximately 392,000 of ADP’s 500,000 U.S. business clients and roughly 24 million employees.
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics non-farm payroll data. Each month surveys about 150,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 390,000 individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earning
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Notes and pictures from today’s iPhone SDK launch. Exchange integration via ActiveSync, development tools, investment fund. Apps delivered only via Apple Store?
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“In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.”
Ho John Lee | March 6th, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Assorted technical trade setups, mostly for short term trading with indicators.
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Summary of Intel earnings presentation, contains a lot of interesting trend and snapshot data for the personal computing universe, shifting use model (mobility) and geography
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Just what it says.
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A profile of a modern entrepreneurial guerilla in Nigeria. When they’re talking about unrest in Nigeria disrupting Shell oil production and spiking the price of crude, that’s him.
Ho John Lee | March 4th, 2008 | Comments are closed
Ho John Lee | March 3rd, 2008 | Comments are closed
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Star Trek – The Original Series, free streaming online!
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Good to know – on average, you need to have display cards with graphics chips from the same vendor to use multimonitor modes on Vista, unlike WinXP.
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Print 2.0 = print the Web 2.0 stuff? At first glance I’m a little unclear.
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Good stuff for QuoteTracker users.
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AM2 socket motherboard with NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE chipset, used in recent AMD-based HP Pavilion a61xx, a62xx, a63xx including a6110n and a6330f.
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Spring soccer league.
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“Our gain in net worth during 2007 was $12.3 billion…Over the last 43 years…book value has grown from $19 to $78,008, a rate of 21.1% compounded annually.
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“For a portfolio investor in non-trending trades, stoploss is a bad approach. It looks in the wrong place, leads to unprofitable turnover, increases transaction costs, decreases expected returns and increases volatility. Just say no.”
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Kira Detko, Wilson Ma, Guy Morita at UWash, undergrad research competition entry motivated by Macrae’s paper. This assumes single market, low slippage vs illiquid portfolio in Macrae?
Ho John Lee | February 22nd, 2008 | Comments are closed
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“Don’t think about what the market’s going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about … those things you want least to happen and on what your response will be.”
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Not dead yet! – “The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) has decided to continue the economicindicators.gov website. “
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An interesting attack on encryption keys retained in DRAM memory, which turns out to be less volatile after powering off than disk security designers assumed.
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Discussion and comments on DRAM encryption key attacks described by Ed Felten’s research group
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A collection of programming language cheat sheets.
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