Sure, kill Daylight Savings.
But keep timezones.
The date ( 8th ) and day (Tuesday) changes at midnight ( 00:00 ). Having the day change in the afternoon is stupid.
"Do you work this Saturday?"
"Yes, and no!"
That would be awesome!
The thing would flop around on the table until solved.
I think it would require a larger cube ( like the coffee table style novelty cube ) or some seriously small steppers.
That would be a good prank cube. Build it and don't tell anyone. Let someone solve it. At 2:00am it will secretly scramble itself. Hilarity ensues.
Paul Rose ( the silent one in the video ).
That is a valid point of view.
The modifications are within those allowed by the WCA for human competitions.
Also the current Guinness record holder has done an even deeper modification ( which was the inspiration for us to go this route ).
Paul Rose ( the one from the video that doesn't talk )
Mansfield Cumming,... was "making enquiries for invisible inks at the London University".
In October he noted that he "heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen", which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available
I can't speak for all of HFT, but for the most part they would be more than happy to get filled, but they don't get filled because they move too fast.
They are calculating a theoretical price and placing orders that would theoretically be good to fill and that are very close to or at the "inside" (best bid or best offer). The inputs into their theoretical model change frequently and they cancel and replace their orders frequently, most often before they have a chance to get filled.
The difference is that for the duration of the order (even if it is small) the HFT wants to get filled and isn't trying to necessarily push the price around. They know the likelyhood of a fill is small, but in a way they still "intend" to get filled and don't have the goal of manipulating the price.
The guys who got in trouble put in orders that they hoped would not fill in order to cause another automated participant to follow along, and then quickly cancel their own order and hit the target order.
>>So these guys figured out how to second-guess somebody's trading algorithm. How in hell is that a crime?
Not quite.
If they had figured out how to predict where somebody else's algorithm was trading, and trade against it for profit, they would not be in trouble.
What they did was figure out how somebody else's algorithm would react to stimulus, then entered created that stimulus, then traded against the result.
They entered orders that had no intention of getting a trade (and indeed would have been unhappy to have traded because they were unnaturally high bids or low offers). These orders gave the impression to both people and software that the market had changed for real. The algorithm followed the "fake" data and made too high of a bid or too low of an offer. They then cancelled their "fake" orders and instantly entered real orders on the opposite side to hit the algorithm.
This has been going in (sans computers) for decades, and is illegal in most regulated markets.
It is similar to the idea of leaking fake news and trading against the move and then making a profit when people figured out it was fake.
Study?
Did they grant super powers to a set of people and observe the results?
I skimmed TFA and didn't see anything about a study. Just a bunch of reasoning about what would probably happen.
Mod parent up
The summary and article were correct, but a bit confusing. 30,000 RPM was the record for spinning a crystal with light, not an overall RPM record.
which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm's conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness
They profile is not based on analysis of actual iPad owners, just collected opinions of what people thought iPad owners were like. The opinions of 20,000 people were collected, regardless of whether that person had an iPad or not.
Disclaimer:
* I own an iPad
* would qualify as wealthy compared to 98% of the world population
* college educated
* work in financial industry (but not overly interested in business / finance)
* it hard to self-judge kindness
* but do give to charity
so the profile (despite being stupid) isn't too far off in my case
>> Am I doing something wrong
Maybe. For me these break when I'm too lazy to properly detangle a pile of wiring, and I resort to pulling the cable out of the pile. The connector goes through backwards and often damages the retainer. I've never had one get damaged any other way.
However, patents aren't the real issue, it's the closed and proprietary nature of the vocoder. Patent it all you like, the encoding technique needs to be published in order to be in compliance with US FCC rules, a fact that escapes the FCC and ARRL.
Just saying that the "spirit of ham radio" certainly has never excluded patented modes or gear in the past.
Very yrue, I should worded my objection more clearly.
In the past I could homebrew an FM exciter and demodulator, perhaps even using the patent as my schematic. It would even be legal if I didn't sell my radio. I could even publish an article about it in QST and be in the clear.
Now, because of DMCA I can get in trouble just for building my own D-Star, and certainly for publishing my version of the codec (even for free).
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Sure, kill Daylight Savings. But keep timezones. The date ( 8th ) and day (Tuesday) changes at midnight ( 00:00 ). Having the day change in the afternoon is stupid. "Do you work this Saturday?" "Yes, and no!"
That would be awesome!
The thing would flop around on the table until solved.
I think it would require a larger cube ( like the coffee table style novelty cube ) or some seriously small steppers.
That would be a good prank cube. Build it and don't tell anyone. Let someone solve it. At 2:00am it will secretly scramble itself. Hilarity ensues. Paul Rose ( the silent one in the video ).
That is a valid point of view.
The modifications are within those allowed by the WCA for human competitions.
Also the current Guinness record holder has done an even deeper modification ( which was the inspiration for us to go this route ).
Paul Rose ( the one from the video that doesn't talk )
What a relief! So if I use Dvorak I'm safe, right?
BZTCbavrf!!
Webster (a US dictionary) shows the 4th definition of the adjective dear:
high or exorbitant in price : expensive "eggs are very dear just now"
It is called a "canary trap"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
Couldn't have asked for a better name...
... was "making enquiries for invisible inks at the London University".
From the last link:
Mansfield Cumming,
In October he noted that he "heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen", which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available
n/m
Wish I had mod points. Nice job. Asimov from the 1940's. Paraphased, but just barely.
Encyclopedia => Wikipedia
Periphery => America
Gamma Andromeda => Japan
I'll grant you your distinction between "fake" and "false".
The orders (and news) were indeed "real".
If the intent was not to move the price without seeking a fill, however, the securities law says that is wrong.
Philosophically is it the right way? I don't know, but there is a legal basis for the prosecution.
Almost.
I can't speak for all of HFT, but for the most part they would be more than happy to get filled, but they don't get filled because they move too fast.
They are calculating a theoretical price and placing orders that would theoretically be good to fill and that are very close to or at the "inside" (best bid or best offer). The inputs into their theoretical model change frequently and they cancel and replace their orders frequently, most often before they have a chance to get filled.
The difference is that for the duration of the order (even if it is small) the HFT wants to get filled and isn't trying to necessarily push the price around. They know the likelyhood of a fill is small, but in a way they still "intend" to get filled and don't have the goal of manipulating the price.
The guys who got in trouble put in orders that they hoped would not fill in order to cause another automated participant to follow along, and then quickly cancel their own order and hit the target order.
>>So these guys figured out how to second-guess somebody's trading algorithm. How in hell is that a crime?
Not quite.
If they had figured out how to predict where somebody else's algorithm was trading, and trade against it for profit, they would not be in trouble.
What they did was figure out how somebody else's algorithm would react to stimulus, then entered created that stimulus, then traded against the result.
They entered orders that had no intention of getting a trade (and indeed would have been unhappy to have traded because they were unnaturally high bids or low offers). These orders gave the impression to both people and software that the market had changed for real. The algorithm followed the "fake" data and made too high of a bid or too low of an offer. They then cancelled their "fake" orders and instantly entered real orders on the opposite side to hit the algorithm.
This has been going in (sans computers) for decades, and is illegal in most regulated markets.
It is similar to the idea of leaking fake news and trading against the move and then making a profit when people figured out it was fake.
Yes, but 31km (19 miles) is only 20% short It seems strange that hold IP on the idea of breaking 50 year old record by only 20%
Nevermind -- should have thought about it for 10 seconds before posting...
>>monotonically decreases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(chess)
Study? Did they grant super powers to a set of people and observe the results? I skimmed TFA and didn't see anything about a study. Just a bunch of reasoning about what would probably happen.
Mod parent up The summary and article were correct, but a bit confusing. 30,000 RPM was the record for spinning a crystal with light, not an overall RPM record.
What's wrong with dying? We all do it sooner or later as individuals. Why should the race last forever?
read headline as ADA for web -- immediately thought they were going to push an interpreted ADA as a Javascript replacement -- need more sleep
From the summary:
which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm's conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness
They profile is not based on analysis of actual iPad owners, just collected opinions of what people thought iPad owners were like. The opinions of 20,000 people were collected, regardless of whether that person had an iPad or not.
Disclaimer:
* I own an iPad
* would qualify as wealthy compared to 98% of the world population
* college educated
* work in financial industry (but not overly interested in business / finance)
* it hard to self-judge kindness
* but do give to charity
so the profile (despite being stupid) isn't too far off in my case
I lost 4% of my body weight in just one week, but it was just .0000000040 megatons, so not significant
>> Am I doing something wrong Maybe. For me these break when I'm too lazy to properly detangle a pile of wiring, and I resort to pulling the cable out of the pile. The connector goes through backwards and often damages the retainer. I've never had one get damaged any other way.
Just saying that the "spirit of ham radio" certainly has never excluded patented modes or gear in the past.
Very yrue, I should worded my objection more clearly.
In the past I could homebrew an FM exciter and demodulator, perhaps even using the patent as my schematic. It would even be legal if I didn't sell my radio. I could even publish an article about it in QST and be in the clear.
Now, because of DMCA I can get in trouble just for building my own D-Star, and certainly for publishing my version of the codec (even for free).