After writing the option code, Peterffy began to set up a programming department and hired more programmers because they played an increasingly important role in the market. Under the leadership of Jerry, who is clever, and Peterffy, who is proficient in algorithmic construction, Mokata made millions of dollars and became one of the most influential commodity traders in the world. Mokata is growing, and so is the hacker corps in Peterffy. By 1975, they have hired 50 programmers and become one of the pillars of Wall Street's programming treasure house.
The Difficult Road of Hacker's Growth
Change the algorithm of Wall Street.
1980 hacking career on wall street: the right time, the right place and the right people.
Father of algorithmic trading
Algorithm spread to Hollywood
The pioneer of tablet computer
The algorithm spread from the east coast to the west coast.
A hacker who reached the top of Wall Street.
Unknown frontier in financial field
Chapter 2: A brief history of human and algorithm.
Where does the algorithm come from?
golden section
Godfather of modern algorithms
Gauss: the logic to realize the algorithm
Pascal, Bernoulli and the Game of Changing the World
Forming in an algorithm
Boolean logic machine
Chapter 3 Top 40 by Machine
There are three movies, and the prediction of the algorithm is very different from the actual situation; The other six are very accurate. A movie studio is expected to earn over 100 million yuan, but the actual box office is only 40 million yuan, which is very disappointing. The prediction of the algorithm is 49 million. There is also a forecast that does not differ from the actual box office of the movie by more than 6.5438+0.2 million. Suddenly, Epagogix has become a necessary tool for studios to analyze scripts (especially large-scale production scripts) before starting.
You have a 4 1% chance of becoming Lady Gaga.
A & ampr said it didn't hear a bill.
Bach machine
Solve the mystery of the Beatles
Chapter 4 The Secret Highway of Computer
The value of the algorithm is all reflected in its speed. If the algorithm can't complete complex tasks in microseconds or milliseconds, it won't be a force for innovation. Speed depends largely on one thing: computer hardware.
The deal is too big.
For better or worse, money, speed and technology always go hand in hand.
Speed incubator
Chapter V Game Theory in the System
1989, IBM approved a group of scientists to start building a computer, claiming to defeat the world chess champion. As we all know, this computer was finally named "Deep Blue". 1997, Deep Blue defeated the chess master Gary in its heyday. Kasparov, whose weight was 1.4 tons at that time, was running 256 processors at the same time, with an average of 200 million steps per second, while the chess master Gary? Kasparov can only think three times a second. Newsweek called this chess game "the last battle of the brain".
Make the algorithm tricky
sports betting
Algorithm: The Ghost of the Central Intelligence Agency
For algorithms, in the world of love and baseball, anything is possible.
Chapter 6 Calling the Robot Doctor
But even an old pedant who loves to study hard, it is difficult to digest and remember everything in the book. In all fairness, this book is only a reference for doctors who don't know much about a drug. But there is an algorithm, which can not only find the relevant content and remember it in a few seconds, but also make continuous and detailed adjustments by using the latest data of pharmaceutical manufacturers. Although it seems that medicine cannot be invaded by computer programs, this fact has been shaken by the algorithm-the real change has come.
Arbitrator of life
Your robot doctor
But what about the doctor I made an appointment with?
Chapter VII Classification of People
Everyone has his own personality type. In the eyes of real experts, everyone can be classified, labeled and catalogued like animals in a zoo. Are you a fickle orangutan or a docile deer? Are you scheming, or are you like Abe, the16th American President Abraham? Lincoln) as honest? A skilled psychiatrist can get an answer quickly by just saying a word to us. They know why we work, why we struggle and what kind of people we get along with. But there are few such diagnostic experts among those who usually give us personality tests. They are rare talents. But what if such a rare person can be imitated, copied and even developed stronger by a machine? What if there is an algorithm that can identify our personality, find our weaknesses, see through our thoughts and predict our behavior? What if we create a machine that can read minds?
Choose the right person: by science, not by luck
From NASA to daily life
Chapter 8 The contest between Wall Street and Silicon Valley
In 2000, the ratio of trading through computer programs was less than 10% of the trading volume in the American stock market. Wall Street tycoons knew about the existence of algorithms, but at that time, algorithms were not enough to shake the market. It is hard to imagine that one day it will integrate the whole financial system and trigger such an event as a flash crash.
The loss on Wall Street benefits all of us.
Fuxing technology is the place where the elites of quantitative analysis in financial circles are most concentrated. In fact, if you can work in this company for several years, your income must be millions or even tens of millions of dollars. Only employees of the company can buy the Renaissance Medal Fund. Since the medal was established in the early 1990s, the return on investment has increased by 30%. In Simmons' words, it uses algorithms to trade millions of shares "anything with price fluctuations". According to its development speed all the time, medals can turn 65,438+million dollars into 20 million dollars in just 20 years. When the extremely intelligent and calculating talents began to reject the wealth of the Renaissance and turned to Silicon Valley with uncertain results, the balance in people's minds had deviated from Wall Street.
They went to Silicon Valley.
The damage caused by Wall Street.
The future belongs to algorithms and their creators.
Jon, a professor of computer science at Cornell University? Kleinberg has compiled a set of algorithms to find clues in our vocabulary and phrases to distinguish who is the real influencer and who has the ability to influence public opinion, lead the trend and attract attention. These people can decide the election results and bring new products to the market. The algorithm monitors people's conversations and identifies who is in control of the situation and at what level others are.
All channels ...
The story of two coasts
Express gratitude/gratitude
Personal name index
Toponymic index