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.

Dexy seems to offer an amazing solution to documentation that is Platform Independent. It’s a tool created by a Ana Nelson, an open source software developer, who happens to have a PhD in economics. Obviously a better output that star gazing and making predictions in economics , that anyway go wrong . Dexy’s USP in Ana’s words: There are many excellent tools for specific types of documentation, in particular many object-oriented languages have built-in tools for writing API reference documentation (e.