2008 – Mike's home page

Trading Strategy Backtest

2008-12-062008-12-06 by mike

Update 2022/01/04: Backtest is a desktop Windows app I developed in the late 2000s. A couple of colleagues and I were studying futures day trading and we wanted to test strategies against historical data. We collaborated for a couple of years while experimenting, trading and evolving Backtest. Some screen shots of my Trading Strategy Backtest […]

Dual Quad is up

2008-12-052008-12-05 by mike

March 2009: Up to 16G Dec2008: Just built this dual quad machine for running my financial simulation app.

Games

2008-11-132008-11-13 by mike

Mini golf Play minigolf Bloxorz Play Bloxorz GetBlackOut Play Get black out. Fantastic Contraption This is a very cool puzzle/game. Basically you build an autonomous machine to perform a simple task, with the tasks becoming increasingly difficult… FantasticContraption.com site some contraptions

Disorder in the American Courts

2008-11-102008-11-10 by mike

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. Q: Are you sexually active? A: No, I just lie there. […]

I thought that you may enjoy this little fable.

2008-10-312008-10-31 by mike

Once upon a time, in a place overrun with monkeys, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to […]

Dove types

2008-10-212008-10-21 by mike

Unix guru test

2008-09-082008-09-08 by mike

I actually used this for hiring at one time.

command line interface

2008-09-072008-09-07 by mike

Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same reason that only children read books with only pictures in them. Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks. Bill Garrett

Mars to appear as big as the moon!

2008-07-272008-07-27 by mike

Not! http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/25/will-the-mars-look-as-big-as-the-moon-on-august-27-nope And, my own debunking; img

Get over it

2008-07-232008-07-23 by mike

Pluto is not a planet. Get over it. While there is some ambiguity in the definition of planet especially in the middle, there is little ambiguity at the extremes of the definition. Pluto is way out there. We were wrong to call it a planet. Now we know better. Let it go people. This is […]