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- JEDI = joint enterprise defense infrastructure, a 10b contract for various cloud services that microsoft won a few months ago. Related to azure. Surprising, considering aws, hadoop, gcs. Anyway, Amazon filed a suit for unfair process, political interference, more.
- An invisible keyboard: uses the camera on your phone to analyze your fingers as you type in thin air. For faster messaging on the go. https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-selfie-type-demo-video-1071955/.
- Started Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Read about half today. Very interesting, relevant, and told well; almost like fiction. Michael Lewis is the same guy who did Moneyball and The Big Short.
- HFT, fiber between exchanges, jumping the gun on bids after they’re placed because you can get there first, dark pools (private brokers basically).
- Cool to see the impact of other non-software disciplines affecting this industry: optics, signals, comms.
- Scary to think about information that exchanges, brokers, HFTs, etc have that the average trader does not. You’re going against very big players. Not knowing the trading algorithms behind execution timing, bids/offers, spreads, so much can bite you.
- The state comptroller manages many assets that are often forgotten: uncashed checks, benefits, returns, deposit box contents, etc. https://sco.ca.gov/upd_download_property_records.html.
- Over 2GB of pure CSV is a lot of data. Searched for Mahlstedt. Maybe 100 items, but nothing to claim for anyone I know.
- Went to the original pancake house.
- Scheduled an engineering->finance consultation with Rob for tomorrow.
- Calendly is a cool tool. Was seamless from a user standpoint.
