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Re:Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:51PM (#39146396)
They provide a service to the market and that’s just a pretty basic description of it. Obviously they hope to make money from doing so, but so does every company.

No different to saying McDonald’s focuses on delivering quick and easy food to customers.

Re:Formalizing 100 Theorems on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:11AM (#38151771)
That’s not true either. Coq’s logic is significantly different to HoL.
Re:Formalizing 100 Theorems on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:58PM (#38134187)
They definitely don’t all compile to the same thing. Some do, most don’t.
Re:Formalizing 100 Theorems on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:57PM (#38134173)
It also just follows from X being >= 30.
January 2023 is an age ago in terms of generative AI. DALL-E 3 has been out what, a month? I just tried and it generated hands no problem.
Re:Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:51PM (#38090503)
You’re saying that based on what? All the code and assets are AI.
Re:Ridiculous captcha at GitHub to reset your password on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:02AM (#37235194)
Dice is plural, and common games have you roll two dice at a time. So you’re looking for a pair of pairs.
Re:Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:47PM (#36116699)
C is definitely a high level language.
Obviously not in reality, but their (wrong) definition refers to ‘time to do so’.
Under your definition they can just hold the bonds to maturity to be solvent.
No one is claiming it is a tautology for all X and Y, it just happens to be true in this particular case.
Re:Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:36AM (#34064068)
Lisp is not very functional at all.
Re:Argentina Wins the Football World Cup on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:33PM (#34042918)
How is it hilarious? I doubt the average English person is a massive fan of Canary Wharf and it’s owners.
Tether can be liquidated via the Tether Foundation.
Re:Binance Acquires FTX on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:16PM (#33523029)
How is a prop crypto firm a bank? Laughable
That has nothing to do with not knowing which assertion in a given test has failed.
They don’t need to claw back the money as long as Twitter services the debt.
Re:A Geometrically Natural Uncomputable Function (2008) on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:02AM (#33271967)
Equality on reals is not computable.
Re:The technology behind Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:24PM (#33071598)
Would shredded fabric and paint ordinarily form a dress when sprayed?
Re:Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:30AM (#32411584)
The whole point is that he secured funding from third parties for the Twitter deal. He was never buying it alone.
Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:07AM (#32411263)
Why? That says financial assets aren’t included in reporting of inflation. Why would one think they would be?
Re:Understanding Jane Street on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:09AM (#32317553)
Market makers and retail traders have aligned incentives. Stop scaremongering.
Re:Understanding Jane Street on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:20AM (#32316633)
To even have those ‘best alphas’ in the first place and then select them in advance for your best fund is the impressive part. The returns are insane even if the fund is capped.
Re:Understanding Jane Street on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:52AM (#32316475)
How exactly would this fraud work? Most HFT firms only trade their own capital and distribute gains internally, there’s no one to defraud. Also it’s been going on a lot longer than a decade.
For ‘financial stuff’ where proximity matters (which is a small fraction of it) you would be colocated with the exchange, and there’s no need for that data centre to be in London.
What? The European economic outlook is substantially more dire than in the US. The knock-on effects of EUR depreciation alone will be massive.
Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:19AM (#32033317)
That’s Musk’s fault. The market cap will be calculated the way it would in any other scenario. You’ve just made up some weird rule that doesn’t exist.
Re:Brain.js: GPU Accelerated Neural Networks in JavaScript on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:08PM (#32016578)
Well no, but what’s your point?
It’s not, it just makes it easier. Should be pretty simple to modify the code to work the way you want.
Re:What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:19AM (#31859016)
This seems like the opposite of a cautionary tale, if anything it makes Rust seem an even better choice.

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