BMDS has a new production opening up on August 30, 2007. We have another imported directory for this one, Suzann McLean. The Sisterhood is a "farce about cultural elitism and the triumph of true love over snobbery. One of Molière.s most popular comedies." The play has been modernized and is set in a chic 1980's salon. I'm assisting Doug Parker on this one. We had our first production meeting with the director earlier this month. Continue reading "The Sisterhood ("Les Femmes Savantes")" »
Friday, August 10. 2007
The Sisterhood ("Les Femmes Savantes")
Thursday, August 9. 2007
Lighting Assistant at Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society
Since the beginning of the year, I've been helping out with Lighting Design with the Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society at the Daylesford Cinema on Dundonald Street in Hamilton. The first production was a straight forward, almost as simple as white lights on-white lights off, lighting requirement for Sordid Lives (A Black Comedy about White Trash). The lead lighting designer, Mary Brier, came down with pnemonia just prior to opening night. As such, I 'ran' the lights for the 10 nights the show was open. No big deal. Press the 'go cue' button when called to do so by the stage manager. Stage manger was Nicola Wilkinson, who was great to work with. Continue reading "Lighting Assistant at Bermuda Musical &..." »
Trading Site of the Day -- QWAFAFEW: A four letter word for those who can't count?
Really, that means: Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education, and Wisdom. Quite a mouthful. Anyway, this appears to be a current and running site for quants in various stages of the game. Regular meetings are held, and the site is chock full of presentations regarding Hedge Funds, Regression, Portfolio Construction, Simulations, etc. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- QWAFAFEW: A four..." »
Tuesday, August 7. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Market Delta: See Inside the Chart
I am now, quite simply, amazed. I knew what I was for and was thinking that it wasn't truly original, but I had not been able to find it. Until now. Of course, it was already there, but I just didn't know what to look for. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Market Delta: See..." »
GenAlgo: Genetic Algorithms
I found a link to GenAlgo.com through a link at the Google group comp.ai. They advertised themselves as a site for people to publish their 'rejected papers'. I suppose one could be concerned about the quality, but I think there is enough substance there that it is a decent site with content relating to: Continue reading "GenAlgo: Genetic Algorithms" »
Sunday, August 5. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Trader's Narrative
I was pointed to Trader's Narrative through a link at Elite Trader via a thread regarding margins and haircuts (the two being the same thing). This link points to a list of proprietary trading firms, where Genesis Securities is listed as one. I guess I have an exam to write to get a better haircut! Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Trader's Narrative" »
Shopping by Night Owls
I'm not sure who dreamed this one up, here is a good one: Continue reading "Shopping by Night Owls" »
Trading System Design Thoughts: Price - Volume - Time
I spent a couple of years using SmartQuant's QuantDeveloper (now owned by QuantHouse) to evaluate the viability of various technical analysis based trading systems. I had great success with tweaking simulations to make in-band solutions work, but when it came to using the developed scenario for out-of-band data, the attempted solutions became woefully inadequate. Continue reading "Trading System Design Thoughts: Price - Volume..." »
Saturday, August 4. 2007
Trading Site of the Day -- Futures & Options Trader: A Magazine for Free
Who says the best things in life aren't free. I'd rank the monthly Futures & Options Trader magazine as good bang for the buck. By signing up, you get a monthly email with a link to download a pdf file full of the type of content you'd see in regular glossy magazine. For free. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Futures &..." »
Open Source Site of the Day -- Xen: OS Virtualization
VMWare is probably the pre-eminent hypervisor. Microsoft is trying to catch up with their VM. At one point, you couldnt' get Linux based guests to run (something that has now changed due to popular demand). Continue reading "Open Source Site of the Day -- Xen: OS..." »
Open Source Site of the Day -- PowerTOP: Saving Power with Linux on Intel Platforms
Intel spent some time analyzing the causes of power usage of Linux applications on laptops. To help users maximize laptop battery life, Intel came up with a helpful utility called PowerTOP. Continue reading "Open Source Site of the Day -- PowerTOP:..." »
Friday, August 3. 2007
Personal Co-location Registry
Paul Vixie hosts a Personal Co-location Registry. If you have a personal 1U server running, say, a trading program or some such, then looking for place for it could be as easy as looking at the site. Continue reading "Personal Co-location Registry" »
EDDY: End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY
Carnegie Mellon has a development project called EDDY which is touted for "... allowing information about the operation of disparate components in the computing infrastructure to be brought together for analysis, research, and audit. This enables a system manager to more easily pinpoint problems as they occur, allows autonomic processes to assist in prediction, management, and maintenance." Continue reading "EDDY: End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY" »
Trading Site of the Day -- Currency Trading: Under-hyped, for once
This is site is 'different'. I can't put my finger on it. I'm sure it has corporate backing of some sort, but that could be and probably is totally irrelevant. The definite good thing about CurrencyTrading.net is that it has a good intro reference library to currency trading. It discusses such things as the fundamental pip, how to spot forex scams, and how to choose a broker and open an account. The site is a quick read. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Currency Trading:..." »
Am I Smarter Than I Really Am?
That cuts two ways according to a paper published in 1999 by Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell University. In Unskilled and Unware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, they say that incompetent people rank themselves as more competent than they really are, and that competent people rank themselves as less then they really are. Continue reading "Am I Smarter Than I Really Am?" »