Here's what was actually sent out to UF students about the decision. The link goes to the budget cut proposal. Currently the president of the University (Bernie Machen) is petitioning the state government to allow for tuition hikes above the already annual limit of 15%.
I suppose that could be where I end up down the road, but right now I am more interested in ( as you correctly concluded that I am without the large amounts of necessary capital for profiting from fractions of pennies) the daily/weekly volatility that is oftentimes seemingly unnecessary and counter to the longer term trends.
Hint: backtest on decades of data, not just the friendly waters we have now. Forward test your work for a few months before going live. Use the same amount of capital as you intend to trade with for all your tests.
Also, model with fat tails and decide if you're okay with those risks.
Testing my theory is the next step, as no theory is perfect and will certainly change over time. Theories come and go, and may even be true for a time, but I need the ability to effectively test/execute whatever theory that may be.
What is your experience in trading, if you don't mind me asking?
Yes thanks to hacker news I have come to know about Udacity and can't wait to sign up for next terms CS101. I am always reading I can't seem to get enough... per your recommendation I'll definitely check it out.
Yeah, I just started doing the course way late, since I just recently heard about it myself. You can still access the materials. It might be good motivation to haul through everything in time for the final exam. That's what I'm trying to do.
The way it works is that if your final grade is higher without incorporating your homework grades, they just take your final exam as your grade for the class. This is nice because I'm turning in every homework late and getting a 0.
I don't care about the grades anyways. I like the structure of the instruction for learning. You should sign up and just rock through Unit 1 and see what you think of it. It goes fast at the beginning.
So long as it has a C compiler it would be fine, the big point is that you want to manage memory as you want to understand how the memory and the hardware is managed. I personally like to have people learn by doing and then read the theory afterwards. For me at least the theory sticks better after someone has witnesses it. My recommendation was because you said that you want to learn computer science and to me that is the best way to do it. If you just want to learn how to program then my recommendation would be entirely different. But if you want to learn computer science then getting closer to the hardware will help you see the theory. To get closer to the hardware their is no better language than C, well you can do Assembly but at least with C you can learn higher order software only concepts that would be difficult to learn in Assembly.
Basic Stamps are also simple to program however if you have the choice I would recommend the Arduino. The difference being that with an Arduino you are learning in the C programming language from day one which is a very useful and powerful language in use in a number of fields including Game Development. By comparison the Basic Stamps are programmed in PBasic which is not used outside of Basic Stamp programming (and similar Basic languages such as Visual Basic and QBasic are outdated / no longer in wide usage).
Ok that makes perfect sense. I know basic has been largely set aside for quite some time now and I always wondered what the point of learning a useless language was... this is the kind of stuff that I am trying to avoid wasting time on.
While basic is a good language to learn the (pardon the pun) basics of programming, it's not a great language to learn computer science if that is your goal. For that I think the best two languages you can learn are C and then Lisp. Neither are huge languages as far as number of jobs go but both are fundamental and foundational languages. Mastery of both will allow you to master any other language quickly. C will help you understand the hardware and Lisp will help you understand pure software CS theory that is why I recommend C first and then Lisp, you want to build a foundation, then layer on from that foundation and the best way is to work from the hardware up. Once you understand how the hardware is controlled by the software, it makes it very easy to see how to optimize code when you are dealing with what looks like pure software problems.
The Arduino board has a lot of support and following, so that is why I recommended it, and it supports other languages as well so as you grow and learn new languages you can use your knowledge of the board to learn new languages on. If you find a different board that you like though and it has a C compiler then it will suffice, but Arduino does have a huge community that tend to help each other out.
Oh ok well that's reassuring because those are three languages I have toyed around with in the past. From a step one scenario (where I consider myself to be), do you have any recommended learning resources?
Here's what was actually sent out to UF students about the decision. The link goes to the budget cut proposal. Currently the president of the University (Bernie Machen) is petitioning the state government to allow for tuition hikes above the already annual limit of 15%.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwzZsds2XcGnMWFpcnFiNEhvQkk/...