Comment Dont forget "Erlang Programming" (Score 1) 63
Dont forget "Erlang Programming" http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518189/. Its been out for a while
Comment Re:pointing fingers (Score 3, Insightful) 361
The plumbing is not the problem here. It is the Quant models that _are_ the market in many cases (certainly where ever hedge funds are significant players).
Comment Re:pointing fingers (Score 4, Interesting) 361
What is tightly regulated? Half the Quant algo trading models get thought up in the evening, coded overnight and activated in the market the next morning.
If you try and slow them down they just run to the head of the desk bleating that the "nasty IT man stopped me making $1000,000,000 for the bank with his silly QA nonsense" and whoosh, its in production. It is prop trading so its their risk.
Submission + - Moore's Law has already stopped working
BigTom writes: The Reg has a report from the SC08 supercomputing event in Austin.
David Patterson of the Par Lab (Parallel Computing Laboratory) thinks that Moore's Law no longer applies (and he has the numbers to proove it) if you want to do more in future you have to go concurrent, and the future starts right now.
So, what to do? brush up your Erlang? Occam anyone? Or are AI optimisers going to eat our lunch?
David Patterson of the Par Lab (Parallel Computing Laboratory) thinks that Moore's Law no longer applies (and he has the numbers to proove it) if you want to do more in future you have to go concurrent, and the future starts right now.
So, what to do? brush up your Erlang? Occam anyone? Or are AI optimisers going to eat our lunch?
Comment Re:The underlying assumption is not true (Score 1) 1057
analytic and associative thinking and problem solving are not skills you can learn.
And your evidence for this statement is?
Submission + - We will all get rich taking in each others Laundry
BigTom writes: The register is running a report about the Stanford Summit where various VR luminaries Philip Rosedale, Craig Sherman and Jaron Lanier.
Among claims of VR environments running on "100 of millions of servers" Jaron Lanier made the prediction that: "In 25 years, robotics will be so good, we'll have no more manufacturing jobs. Software will be so good, there will be no more consulting jobs. But we will all get rich buying and selling virtual goods."
He had me going for a moment, but then "no more consulting jobs"? Yeah, right.
Among claims of VR environments running on "100 of millions of servers" Jaron Lanier made the prediction that: "In 25 years, robotics will be so good, we'll have no more manufacturing jobs. Software will be so good, there will be no more consulting jobs. But we will all get rich buying and selling virtual goods."
He had me going for a moment, but then "no more consulting jobs"? Yeah, right.
