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Show HN: Terrapin – self-serve fixed income data API
Hi there,We've spent the last couple of years building our fixed income data API, but so far you had to contact us to get access.This release is targeted towards the fintech community. We understand the difficulties of sourcing fixed income data, and dealing with all the restrictions and countless calls with customer representatives.You can now register, get an API key, and start fetching bond...
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Show HN: DocExtract – Automatically extract structured data from financial docs
Show HN: I built a bond screener where you can search over 120k instruments
Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews.
Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.
BondScreen: Search 100k global government and corporate bonds
It's possible (likely) that Alameda has invested that money in iliquid assets or assets that have since lost value. Also, since the loans of FTX to Alameda were backed by FTT, which has since collapsed, even if FTX makes a margin call, the collateral has a fraction of the original value.
Understanding the turmoil in the UK pension market
The economic and market implications of the UK “mini budget”
Bank of America just launched a zero down payment mortgage in 21 cities
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of doing a PhD in the UK
Deckmill: Language Learning Flashcards Without Gimmicks
Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.
Nimbo docs: "In order to run this job on Nimbo, all you need is one tiny config file and a Conda environment file (to set the remote environment), and Nimbo does the following for you:"
SpotML docs: "In order to run this job on SpotML, all you need is one tiny config file and a Docker file (to set the remote environment), and SpotML does the following for you:"
Make of that what you will :).
I developed a tool to train neural networks on AWS with a single command
We decided to build this because we were frustrated with how cumbersome using AWS was, and we just wanted to be able to run jobs on AWS as easily as we run them locally (and make use of our credits). All in all, we didn't like the current AWS user experience, and we thought we could drastically simplify it for the machine learning/scientific computing niche.
For this reason, we also provide many useful commands to make it faster and easier to work with AWS, such as one-command Jupyter notebooks on EC2, easily checking prices, logging onto an instance, syncing data to/from S3, etc.
Unlike other similar services, we are solely client-side, meaning that the code runs on your EC2 instances and data is stored in your S3 buckets (we don't have a server; all the infrastructure orchestration happens in the Nimbo package).
We have tons of ideas for Nimbo, such as docker support and one-command neural network deployments.
We will be hosting a live Nimbo setup session, so if you are interested register here http://eepurl.com/hx-jyv.
I (Miguel) am an ML PhD from the University of Edinburgh and Juozas is a Software Engineer also from Edinburgh.
Together we developed Nimbo, a dead-simple CLI that wraps the AWS CLI, allowing you to run code on AWS as if you were running it locally. You can find the source code here (https://github.com/nimbo-sh/nimbo) and the docs here (https://docs.nimbo.sh).
We decided to build this because we were frustrated with how cumbersome using AWS was, and we just wanted to be able to run jobs on AWS as easily as we run them locally. At the same time, we wanted to make use of the cheap spot instances (on Nimbo, this is a single parameter). All in all, we didn't like the current user experience of working with AWS, and we believed it was possible to vastly improve it.
For this reason, we also provide many useful commands to make it faster and easier to work with AWS, such as launching notebooks on EC2, easily checking prices, logging onto an instance, or syncing data to/from S3 (you can see some useful commands at https://docs.nimbo.sh/useful-commands).
Unlike other similar services, we are solely client-side, meaning that the code runs on your EC2 instances and data is stored in your S3 buckets (we don't have a server; all the infrastructure orchestration happens in the Nimbo package). We are also open contribution, meaning that all the source code is publicly available on our GitHub, and we welcome community contribution.
We have tons of ideas for Nimbo, like adding docker support, and providing instances with preloaded datasets like ImageNet, so that you don't have to download and store it yourself - you simply spin the instance, and the dataset is available at /datasets. We are currently working on adding GCP support, so that you can use AWS or GCP with the same config file.
We are happy to receive any feedback and suggestions you have.