Good piece [LWN.net]

Good piece

Posted Nov 29, 2012 1:40 UTC (Thu) by cb064 (guest, #88059)
In reply to: Good piece by akeane
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

I would suppose it to be bell shaped, though not very certain about the amount of "mass" in the tails (not even sure if the only reason it's measureable being that markets do not run "forever" and are limited by the life-expectancy of human civilisation)

PS: for anybody interested:
https://www.student.gsu.edu/~gconnaughton1/Project2.htm

If i had plenty of time if would probably read: http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-16481...

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Good piece

Posted Dec 2, 2012 11:35 UTC (Sun) by akeane (guest, #85436) [Link]

>I would suppose

Rather than suppose why not try, the data is all there, it takes a few lines of a bash script to download the data (stuff that actually exists rather than supposition), do the counting and produce a csv file you can put into whatever graphing tool you like and see what you get?

And if you can't be bothered to do that, don't start whining when your pension or 401k plan, doesn't "perform" like you were told...

:-)