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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Fixing Japanese Candlestick Charting
What is it:
A way that investors visualize and interpret open, high, low, and close (ohlc) price data and identify patterns.
Why:
There are a number of different patterns that can occur individually or in a short sequence that are expected to presage a large up or down moves.
Flaws:
There are a number of different flaws the most obvious is the lack of proper definitions. Candlestick...
Friday, August 1, 2014
Mike Schmidt - Is Eureqa a genetic algorithm?
Just saw Michael Schmidt speak at Pivotal Labs about Eureqa.
His presentation was very similar to this one at TEDx.
It was an interesting discussion about his algorithm which tries to distill understanding out of data not just accurate and mystical prediction as most machine learning algorithms do. In other words rather than hiding the prediction behind a trained black box, it seeks to reveal...
Saturday, March 1, 2014
BeautifulSoup - Cheat Sheet
BeautifulSoup - cheat sheet
parse HTML by default, can parse XML
Modules to Import:
BeautifulSoup
CData
ProcessingInstruction
Declaration
DocType
Basic Commands:
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# use the line below to down load a webpage
html = urllib2.urlopen('web address').read()
soup...