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19 March 2010 View Comments

TinEye: Reverse Image Search Engine

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather [...]

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17 March 2010 View Comments

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance)

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance)

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition (Quantitative Finance)
By Stephen Satchell, John Knight

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2007-04-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 075066942X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750669429

Product Description:
This new edition of Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key principles and methods of understanding volatility measurement [...]

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16 March 2010 View Comments

Howto Upload Files Using FTP Command Line

Have you find upload file using your FTP client extremely slow? Do you interested to use FTP command line instead? Useful to impress girls with CLI skills :p. This is a visual guide of how to do just about that. Here is the scenario, I would like to upload a file C:\Users\Dean\Desktop\temp\Nelson2002.pdf.

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16 March 2010 View Comments

General Rules for File Permissions

Setting file permissions is very important in getting CGI scripts to work on your web site. Follow the below step to understand file permissions.
To begin:
Pages should be readable/writeable by the owner and readable by the web visitor.
Scripts should be readable/writeable/executable by the owner and readable/executable by the web visitor.
The following are abbreviations for permissions:
— (or [...]

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14 March 2010 View Comments

Ubiquity: Command the Web with Language

Ubiquity is an experimental interface for the browser, allowing users to control the web with language. The presentation will include demos for end users and developers to experience the power and extensibility of the Ubiquity platform. Particular focus will be placed on the difficulties of working with natural language as well as Ubiquity’s natural language [...]

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14 March 2010 View Comments

Visualizing Finance Crisis Using Processing

Data-Based Video Manipulation. How fall of stocks changes expression.
Experiment in visualizing data the josef ackermann statement is pitched in relation to the share price value of deutsche bank. Build with processing, data is read from a share price chart image taken from the web.

13 March 2010 View Comments

Financial Markets: Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation (Part 8)

Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which [...]

12 March 2010 View Comments

Entrepreneur Visas, UK, US and Other Developed Countries

Entrepreneurship is one of the most significant contributors to a nation’s prosperity [6]. In an increasingly globalized economy, many of the advanced nations in the world are racing to attract the brightest entrepreneurial minds, regardless of their country of origin. The startups created by these highly skilled immigrants will generate most of the jobs and [...]