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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by digi_owl on Friday December 26, 2014 @12:02PM (#8799316)
While fun to watch on Amazon, this is a cruder version of what HFT does on the stock market.
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Re:The Tears of Donald Knuth by quotemstr on Friday December 26, 2014 @03:57PM (#8800340)
Sure, but Amazon pricing is more amusing: the results are visibly and clearly absurd. HFT done right is much subtler.
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