This puzzle has appeared in many forms but here is one variant: Five sailors were cast away on an island. To provide food, they collected all the coconuts they could find. During the night one of the sailors awoke and decided to take his share of the coconuts. He divided the nuts into five equal piles and discovered that one nut was left over, so he threw this extra one to the monkeys.

This book is a ~160 page tirade against the book “Flash Boys” that has captured everyone’s mindshare with the marketing slogan - ”U.S. stock market is rigged”. The author, Peter Kovac, has worked with a HFT firm for eight years and claims to be an industry insider. Since “Flash Boys” was basically anti-HFT book, it is natural to expect someone from the HFT to criticize the book. So, there we have Peter Kovac with a book length treatment that has similar title with Lewis book but a different tagline.

There is a difference between an R user and an R programmer. The former is usually concerned with writing R scripts, using existing R libraries, in order to do data wrangling / model development / back testing or creating an reproducible research document. R programmer on the other hand is usually interested in creating a package / reusable code that can be used by others in his company / by R community.

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Introduction: windows on the world Michael Lewis starts off by saying that the mental picture of stock market that most people away from Wall Street carry has changed dramatically over the last decade. He claims that his intent of writing this book is to draw a picture that is the new reality of U.S markets. Hidden in plain sight Only Michael Lewis can take a “laying a fiber optic cable” story and make it in to a page turner.