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The level of commitment behind those orders is literally that of a mailing list, there is no deposit. That's bad reporting right there.

So, a tensor is kind of a Rubik Cube shaped matrix?

The Market Wizards series is great. I've just finished Hedge Fund market wizards. Niederhoffer's the education of a speculator is another great read.

Yeah, in a certain sense it's a lot like mathematics. You try your hand, perhaps you get it right the first time, more often than not you don't but at least you learn something out of it.

Don't worry, I've been living with the feeling for a long time ;)

I just checked a public library nearby and it occurs they might have a copy, thanks for the suggestion!

Amazon keeps recommending Realm of Racket (No Starch press). I'm checking your link and finding it useful, thank you!

Thank you, I guess trying won't hurt, nobody has ever regretted learning anything after all. As for feeling discouraged, being stupid (in various degrees) is part of the learning process I believe. Couldn't say I'm learning anything otherwise. I will try Haskell alongside Python to see how it goes.

Thank you! I fond the sneak peeks of number theory, algebra, probability, combinatorics and graph theory I've had so far to be quite enjoyable. But keep in mind my run with geometry hasn't gone past Euclid (the illustrated version of the Elements edited by Taschen) and I'm still in the dark about other fields (I'm using Professor Gowers' The Princeton Companion to Mathematics for direction).

Would you advise Haskell to someone who has just started programming (working on Learning Python the hard way) and is interested in learning mathematics (from the high school level onwards)?

P.S. I want to study algorithms too but I'm just a beginner and the priority is mathematics (as it's one of the few subjects I seem to be able to concentrate on). I found a secondhand copy of Professor Sedgewick's book for ten euros, it's the manual for one of his MOOCs , should I go with it?

Yeah, it reads like that kind of prose only a machine would write. Perhaps they were deliberately abstruse. One thing is certain, those guys are in dire need of an editor.

Get Jon Duckett's books. http://www.amazon.com/Jon-Duckett/e/B001IR3Q7I

A)Because with 160bln you're the market;

B) Change the point of view from the retail investor to the pension fund, funds have a very narrow and constrained mandate, they need to hedge risks and deal with the increasing negative cash-flows. They can't merely park their money somewhere and hope for the best.

> The idea was that after 4-5 years you leave for a buy-side gig (hedge funds, private equity) that pay you the same or more ($1-5M in your early to mid-30s) but with more reasonable hours.

That idea is now a myth, only a handful of wall-streeters break the 1-2 million mark according to various industry surveys (generally you can earn a lot more if you are a principal or a portfolio manager at a successful hedge fund, but those are outliers, the truth is that the belief everyone on the buyside is living a model and bottles lifestyle (or might be able to) is a huge misconception). IMHO, the best shot at becoming rich remains entrepreneurship.

In addition, get Israel Gelfand's books (http://gcpm.rutgers.edu/books.html).

Ah, Russell. I've always been put off by people complaining about his somewhat pedantic approach. I guess I'll give it a try. Thank you.

Care to share the title?

Yeah, that was such a powerful scene, though it wasn't an airport but the lobby of the Istanbul Hilton. We shared the same reaction.

How can the stock market be zero sum. What about dividends?

There is a fun chapter on this topic in Jordan Ellenberg's latest book "How not to be wrong". It's called the "Baltimore stockbroker fraud".