[CentralOH] 2016-09-02 道場 Scribbles 落書/惡文? embedded justification quant finance jptimer context manager pandas_datareader geany Nassim Nicholas Taleb Michael Lewis Roger Lowenstein corzine meriwether dabeaz zeno's paradox recursion GEB

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

If it seems too complicated, it probably is too complicated.

Python vs. C/C++ in embedded systems
https://opensource.com/life/16/8/python-vs-cc-embedded-systems

Compare attendance
    http://www.meetup.com/Central-Ohio-Python-Users-Group/events/228901519/
    http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/228901718/

Using Python for justification of text.
http://xkcd.com/1676/

Stupid Patent Of The Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160831/15355335408/stupid-patent-month-elsevier-patents-online-peer-review.shtml

http://search.creativecommons.org/

python for quant finanace
http://python-for-finance.com/
Analyze Big Financial Data
http://tpq.io/
http://oreilly.quant-platform.com/nb/portal/register
https://github.com/yhilpisch/py4fi
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032441.do

JPTimer jeff pershing peery??? timer

as variable survives past end of context

C# is a warmed over version of java with everything renamed

pandas_datareader
    https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader

wp:Geany
    editor/IDE for Python

wp: prefix means Wikipedia
To get good answers, consider following the advice in the links below.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
    Antifragile
    The Black Swan
    The Bed of Procrustes

Michael Lewis
    Liar's Poker
    The New New Thing
    Moneyball
    The Big Short
        Dr. Michael Burry
        wp:Meredith Whitney

Roger Lowenstein
    When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
    Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

wp:Jon Corzine
wp:John Meriwether

wp:Zeno's paradoxes
http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-09-03

David Beazley’s Keynote Talk at PyData Chicago 2016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VSAsKAj98

Windows is so cute.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/29/bsods_at_scale_we_laugh_at_your_puny_five_storeys_heres_our_six_storey_fail/