IEX is a stock exchange most famous for introducing a “speed bump” to deter high-frequency trading, as told in Flash Boys. But they also made their exchange data available to a degree unmatched by more traditional players like NYSE and NASDAQ. IEX published both a JSON REST API for current quotes and a daily archive of raw packet captures, free, no credentials required.
For Christmas my brother gave me a toy robotic arm kit, a Raspberry Pi 3, and an Xbox controller. The gift was really the project: he studied electrical engineering in college, and the plan was that he would teach me how to design the circuit that connects those three things together. We spent the rest of the holiday on the couch building it.
Every family has a game. Growing up, we played a lot of Rummy 500, and over Christmas 2016 we played enough of it to develop standings, grievances, and a general reluctance to let the tournament end when everyone went home.
Our trip to Martinique. L’île est magnifique.
I came to kinetic Monte Carlo while studying how nucleosomes are arranged in budding yeast. Nucleosomes are proteins around which DNA is wrapped in eukaryotic cells (think the “spindle” in a “spool of (DNA) thread”).
