>anti-intellectual culture I agree- I really wish there wasn't such a stigma against, as you phrased it, "five-dollar words". I love reading older writing because (maybe without the internet and things like…
>“These studies were based on really hyperactive young white boys who were taken to clinics,” Littman says. I don't really get what lines like this are supposed to be getting at. Why is race mentioned here at all? I'm…
Ah, I read that but didn't parse it as the author trying to make the distinction between (misnamed) "front-running" and actual front-running. Probably still worth pointing out, since one of the activities is illegal and…
Disclaimer: I work in HFT The article uses the term "front-running" incorrectly. Front-running is where a firm places their own trades ahead of trades they're placing for a client, to capitalize on the price movement…
LCS stands for "Longest Common Subsequence". I don't know why their docs say "substring". Maybe they just made a mistake? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_pro...
>anti-intellectual culture I agree- I really wish there wasn't such a stigma against, as you phrased it, "five-dollar words". I love reading older writing because (maybe without the internet and things like…
>“These studies were based on really hyperactive young white boys who were taken to clinics,” Littman says. I don't really get what lines like this are supposed to be getting at. Why is race mentioned here at all? I'm…
Ah, I read that but didn't parse it as the author trying to make the distinction between (misnamed) "front-running" and actual front-running. Probably still worth pointing out, since one of the activities is illegal and…
Disclaimer: I work in HFT The article uses the term "front-running" incorrectly. Front-running is where a firm places their own trades ahead of trades they're placing for a client, to capitalize on the price movement…
LCS stands for "Longest Common Subsequence". I don't know why their docs say "substring". Maybe they just made a mistake? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_pro...