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		<title>Part 4 &#8211; Nerds Gone Wild &#8211; Wired Markets in Distress</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/global-financial-markets-in-distress-553/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Nerds Gone Wild &#8211; Global Markets in Distress
The original plan for this book stopped after the three parts that you’ve just read. These parts are about how markets became machines, and about using more machines to pick stocks and trade them electronically, bringing in an assortment of nifty ideas from finance and computer science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3 &#8211; Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification in Financial Markets
Securities Markets are Machinery Now.
This raises the question of how to best participate in the world’s new wired markets. People who use information technology most effectively will be rewarded.
Artificial intelligence (AI) as an academic discipline began at the famous 1955 Dartmouth conference organized by John McCarthy from Stanford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2 &#8211; Alpha as Life</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/alpha-returns-active-investing-519/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 21:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passive Investing &#8211; Active Investing &#8211; Alpha Returns
Index funds are passive investments; their goal is to deliver a return that matches a benchmark index. The Old Testament of indexing is Burton Malkiel’s classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street, first published in 1973 by W.W. Norton and now in its ninth edition. For typical individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1 &#8211; Wired Markets</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/wired-financial-markets-509/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Financial Markets &#8211; Electronic Markets
Not too long ago, going to a stock market meant you would meet lots of new people who were energetically shouting, running around, and making a mess with great quantities of paper. No more. Visiting a financial market now is more like visiting a telephone exchange. Computers and network gear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Nerds on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://nerdsonwallstreet.com/introduction-to-nerds-on-wall-street-479/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to &#8220;Nerds on Wall Street&#8220;
I hope people think of this book as sort of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to Wired Markets. There are no robots parking cars for six million years, but there are robots trading millions of shares in six milliseconds, so maybe that’s close enough.
In 2006, I got a call from another nerd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contents of &#8220;Nerds on Wall Street&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Ted Aronson	
Part 1 &#8211; Wired Markets	
Chapter 1: An Illustrated History of Wired Markets
Chapter 2: Greatest Hits of Computation in Finance
Chapter 3: Algorithm Wars	
Part 2 &#8211; Alpha as Life
Chapter 4: Where Does Alpha Come From?
Chapter 5: A Gentle Introduction to Computerized Investing
Chapter 6: Stupid Data Miner Tricks	
Part 3 &#8211; Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification	
Chapter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of &#8220;Nerds on Wall Street&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Leinweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology has transformed global markets, but this is nothing new. Markets have been shaped by machinery for hundreds of years, and this continues at a rapid pace today.
Author David Leinweber—a computer scientist who accidentally stumbled upon Wall Street and became an innovator in the application of modern information technology in trading and investing—is a well-qualified [...]]]></description>
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