michaelwsherman

AI in toasters is better than many use cases being considered or publicized.

I would welcome a toaster that let me say "too burnt" or "too raw" or "just right" after each toasting, adjusted the cooking time and temperature accordingly, and generalized well to new kinds of bread and such.

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I intentionally went in this direction when I made a website for my band. I think it's high time this aesthetic came back into fashion.

https://www.smock-frock.com

I did some regulatory work as well, for an upcoming regulation called Reg CAT. CAT will require all brokers, traders, exchanges, etc. to report essentially everything that happens--orders, cancellations, trade executions, etc. Right now the SEC really has no way to catch the majority of regulatory hijinx (look at the years-long attempt to track down the cause of the 2010 "flash crash").

Hopefully this will improve the ability to regulate in the future. But it probably won't result in significantly more enforcement--the regulation is written in such a way that the exchanges and FINRA will carry the primary regulatory burden rather the SEC itself. This means that despite there soon being a system that could, say, give you every reg NMS violation via a database query matched to a log of historical latencies, very little will likely change.

Make sure you try the pizza at Coppola's at the bottom of Murray Hill on Central Ave.

A bit late to the convo here, but one of the things that really impressed me about the Bloomberg (my employer) Terminal is how they manage this old user vs. new user problem well.

The terminal looks like this now: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/economics/images/bloomberg...

You can still do everything with the same keyboard shortcuts that have worked for 30+ years (pretty much everything with a number in front of it), and the layout of the screens generally don't change. But now everything on the mostly text-based view is clickable as well--everywhere you see a number you can click with a mouse.

Additional shortcuts are hidden behind menus, like "Settings" in the photo. But if you know the shortcut, no need to look at "Settings" first (which itself can be opened by typing 97 or clicking it).

Awesome. Mac Plus was my first real computer as a kid, played a lot of games. World Builder scripting was the first programming I ever did.

I'm a bit late here, but maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Drill ?

Hey, a bit late to the game here, but I just want to say I'm a huge fan of your work.

At my last job I worked on one of the Reg CAT bids, and I spent a lot of time looking at Nanex Research--totally mind blowing. The markets would be a better place if the regulators were doing Nanex-style analysis. Keep up the good work!

Hey. I'm one of the "guys from SunGard", although I'm no longer there. The longer version is this: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/pdf/ConsolidatedAuditTrail... . A lot of it is related to the use case, but yeah, Bigtable handled pretty much whatever we wanted to throw at it. No other cloud provider can offer this sort of scale and performance right now without a ton of manual management or significant compromises, something that seems to have yet to sink in (although few companies need the scale we went up to).

It did take a lot more work than "a couple weekends" though :).

Would be cool if you could rotate the charts in all 3 axes, especially the scatterplot.

Yay.

Currently you can use the BigQuery Hadoop connector and write a MapReduce job to scan Bigtable and write everything to BigQuery. Works quickly. I'm sure dataflow support is in the works, since Google internally doesn't really use MR and therefore likely has this on the back end already.

Source--I wrote one of the whitepapers on the BigTable homepage.

Nevermind the clickbait title, I think there are some pretty important ideas here that aren't commonly discussed.