Nerds on Wall Street : math, machines, and wired markets /
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| Author / Creator: | Leinweber, David, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009. |
| Description: | xlvi, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Investments -- Computer network resources. Investments -- Computer network resources. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) New York (State) -- New York -- Wall Street. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7709185 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Alpha from Innovation; Alpha, the ARPANET, and the Internet; Summary
- Chapter 5. A Gentle Introduction to Computerized Investing
- Chapter 6. Stupid Data Miner Tricks
- "Your Mama Is a Data Miner"; Strip Mining the S&P 500; Enough Regression Tricks; Is There Any Hope for Data Miners?; Summary (and Sermonette); Counting the Kiddies
- Part 3. Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification
- Chapter 7. A Little AI Goes a Long Way on Wall Street
- Chapter 8. Perils and Promise of Evolutionary Computation on Wall Street
- Chapter 9. The Text Frontier: AI, IA, and the New Research
- Ten Pounds of News in a Five-Pound Bag; Pre-News and Disintermediation; More Pre-News on the Internet
- Chapter 10. Collective Intelligence, Social Media, and Web Market Monitors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 11. Three Hundred Years of Stock Market Manipulations: From the Coffeehouse to the World Wide Web
- Part 4. Nerds Gone Wild: Wired Markets in Distress
- Chapter 12. Shooting the Moon: Stupid Financial Technology Tricks
- To Protect and to Serve; Stupid Engineering Tricks; Stupid Financial Engineering Tricks; Take Them Out and Shoot Them; Tech Hall of Shame; Quants Who Saw It Coming
- Chapter 13. Structural Ideas for the Economic Rescue: Fractional Homes and New Banks
- Fractional Home Ownership; New American Bank Initiative; Still Mad, but Ever Hopeful
- Chapter 14. Nerds Gone Green: Nerds on Wall Street, off Wall Street
- Accelerating Innovation; From the Vault; Billions of Dollars and Millions of Tons of Carbon; Epilogue; Web Site
- Index
- About the Web Site
- Introduction
- Part 1. Wired Markets
- Chapter 1. An Illustrated History of Wired Markets
- Chapter 2. Greatest Hits of Computation in Finance
- Chapter 3. Algorithm Wars
- Part 2. Alpha as Life
- Chapter 4. Where Does Alpha Come From?
