I had used LaTeX for a few documents many years ago, but the interfaces were so daunting that I never felt like writing a TeX document, unless it was a thesis or a assignment submission or some compulsory requirement. Needless to say MS Word happened to my ally , though a painful ally. Then two things happened in my life simultaneously. One, a chance encounter with a TeX enthusiast , who suggested that I make a conscious decision to avoid MS Word for at least a month and try to use TeX irrespective of the pain that entails a beginner.

This book gives a quick intro to Python and one does not need any prior programming knowledge to go over the contents. I quick read the book in an hour’s time and it served as a syntax F5er. Some of the GUI libraries mentioned that I need to explore are PyQT, PyGTK, wxPython, TkInter Need to check out Charming Python link mentioned in the book There is no char datatype in Python.

Via ET Securities and Exchange Board of India’s chief UK Sinha reiterated on Friday that the regulator is considering imposing speed limits on high-frequency trading of listed Indian shares. “Earlier, it was 200 micro second speed, then 20 micro second and then 8 micro seconds, and there are still demands to reduce it even further. At some stage, this has to stop. What we need to look at is whether it is serving any public good,” Sinha said at the International Bar Association Conference.

Thanks to Ravi, came to know about an old wired article on Netflix prize, where Gavin Potter used fundas from Behavioral economics to crack the problem A deeper part of Potter’s strategy is based on the work of Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, pioneers of the science now called behavioral economics. This new field incorporates into traditional economics those features of human life that are lost when you think of a person as a rational machine, or as a list of numbers representing cinematic taste.