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These are my links for June 6th:

• You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger | The Awl - As a former actual curator, of like, actual art and whatnot, I think I'm fairly well positioned to say that you folks with your blog and your Tumblr and your whatever are not actually engaged in a practice of curation. Call it what you like: aggregating? Blogging? Choosing? Copyright infringing sometimes? But it's not actually curation, or anything like it. - VIA MAOXIAN. TRUE, YOU MUST CREATE TO CURATE - NOT REPACKAGE AND CLAIM IT AS CREATION.
• About WordNet - WordNet - About WordNet - WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. - MUST REVIEW AND SEE HOW TO USE WITH RAPIDMINER FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

These are my links for May 29th through June 5th:

• Spain Warns Market Access Being Shut - WSJ.com - In making this dramatic admission, Mr. Montoro joined recent calls by the Spanish government for direct aid from European Union institutions for Spanish banks as the government hopes to avoid a full-blown bailout package. - TIP OF THE ICEBERG FOR SPAIN
• Retreat From Stock Market Continues - NYTimes.com - “I’m just extremely skeptical about the ability of a retail purchaser to be able to play on a level field in the market,” said Mr. Tsesis, who is 45 and lives in Chicago. “I’m just trying to get out of stocks.” - CONTRARIAN INDICATOR?

These are my links for May 22nd through May 25th:

• Facebook's stock debut shows not all investors are equal - latimes.com - "Market theory is very simple," Spitzer said. "You can't give false and misleading material information to people, where you know it's false and you correct it only to some but not to others."
• Ambient Weather WS-1090-WHUB3-KIT Wifi Wireless Weather Station - For Father's Day - mine and my Dad's
• Information Extraction Rapidminer Plugin -
• Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Increase as Market Stabilizes - Bloomberg - Gains in employment, depressed prices and record-low mortgage rates may bring more properties within reach of buyers, eliminating a source weakness for the world’s largest economy just as risks from Europe’s debt crisis climb. At the same time, efforts to reduce foreclosures and free up financing are just beginning to take root, signaling a sustained housing recovery will take time to develop.- AT LEAST TWO MORE YEARS OF TEPID REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY IF YOU ASK ME.
• Americans Worried About Retirement Savings, But Saving More | AAII: The American Association of Individual Investors - The survey found an increase in the percentage of respondents who are worried about not having enough money to meet living expenses in retirement and outliving their retirement savings. - KEEP BUYING THOSE LATTES AT STARBUCKS.
• Kakha Bendukidze Holds Fate of Gene-Engineered Salmon - NYTimes.com - The animal biotechnology industry is anemic to begin with. AquaBounty is the only American company seriously trying to win approval for a transgenic animal for the food supply. - THIS SHIT BOTHERS ME.
• My Paper Trades: Volume by Price Charts using R - More interesting R code
• Volume by Price charts with R – first attempt | DataPunks.com - Ah, the original price/volume R code and author. Finally.
• Analyze Words - What does AnalyzeWords do? AnalyzeWords helps reveal your personality by looking at how you use words. It is based on good scientific research connecting word use to who people are. So go to town - enter your Twitter name or the handles of friends, lovers, or Hollywood celebrities to learn about their emotions, social styles, and the ways they think. - IT CRASHES FOR @NEURALMARKET. HMMMM.
• Twitter / Discover - Kinda of digging this new Twitter #Discover thing.

These are my links for March 22nd through May 17th:

• R: Quantitative Financial Modelling Framework - All you need to know about the quantmod package
• Housing crash is getting worse Brett Arends' ROI - MarketWatch - Zillow now predicts prices will fall about 8% this year and says it no longer expects the market to bottom before 2012. NO "S" SHERLOCK
• The Aleph Blog » Blog Archive » Why Amateurs Should Invest in Common Stocks - Now, some of the successes came with failures.  For a while, I told my kids never to mention the name “Caldor” to me.  Yeh, Michael Price may have lost a billion on that one, but I more than took my licks.  Until you lose a decent amount, you don’t really understand how the market works.  You can call it market tuition, but like tuition at college, you don’t know how much value you will get out of what you have paid.
• Student discovers new virus in ancient cave mud | MNN - Mother Nature Network - Further analysis proved to be even more remarkable. Lurking in the dank sample of cave mud she collected was a virus previously unknown to science — a bacteriophage that attacks bacteria from the same family as those that cause tuberculosis.
• Smart money left silver to tarnish retail buyers - MarketWatch - The trend suggests the so-called ’smart money,’ the large managed funds that report to the CFTC, had started to back away from silver and “retail investors picked up the slack,” said Tom Pawlicki, a precious metals analyst with MF Global in Chicago. - HOW TRUE BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE AT THE COIN SHOW.
• Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books - NYTimes.com - The deal would have allowed Google to make millions of out-of-print books broadly available online and to sell access to them, while giving authors and publishers new ways to earn money from digital copies of their works. Yet the deal faced a tidal wave of opposition from Google rivals like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as some academics, authors, legal scholars, states and foreign governments. The Justice Department also opposed the deal, fearing that it would give Google a monopoly over millions of so-called orphan works, books whose right holders are unknown or cannot be found.
• First North Pole Ozone Hole Forming? - The cold snap is no coincidence, research leader Rex added."This is the continuation of a long-term tendency that the cold Arctic winters have become colder," Rex said.And global warming may drive this trend, he added. As greenhouse gases trap heat in the lower levels of the atmosphere, the higher levels tend to cool, he said.Of course, the "process is more complicated than this simple explanation"—there may be many ways in which greenhouse gases influence high-altitude temperatures, he added. - WE BETTER MAKE CHANGES FAST!
• S.D. Requires Visit to Pregnancy Center Before Abortion - NYTimes.com - “South Dakota women should not need to submit to an in-person lecture from an unqualified, noncertified, faith-based counselor or volunteer at an antichoice crisis pregnancy center,,” Ms. Gibson said. - DA LOCAL GUBIMENT MESSING WIT MY WOMAN.
• Detroit suffers 25% loss, population lowest in 100 years - USATODAY.com -
• RClimate_GISS_temp_anom_map.png (1200×1000) - IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE

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1. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #1 – Introduction To Rapidminer
2. Calculating Historical Volatility
3. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #2 – Building a Gold Trend Classification Model Part 1
4. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #11 – Pattern Recognition & Landmarking Plugin
5. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #10 – Financial Time Series Modeling Part 2
6. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #8 – Financial Time Series Data Discovery
7. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #6 – Creating a Decision Tree with Rapidminer 5.0
8. Genetic Algorithm Excel Addin
9. Rapidminer 5.X Video Tutorial #12 – Using the Generate Attribute Operator to Create Trading Rules
10. Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #9 – Financial Time Series Modeling Part 1

These are my links for January 12th through January 13th:

• http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/186786/google_attack_part_of_widespread_spying_effort.html - Google's decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China. - MUST PROTECT INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL FROM CHINA. THEY JUST STEAL AND COPY.
• Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China - NYTimes.com - “Unless they turn themselves into a Chinese company, Google could not win,” she said. “The company has clearly put its foot down and said enough is enough.”
• http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/186786/google_attack_part_of_widespread_spying_effort.html - Google's decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China. - MUST PROTECT INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL FROM CHINA. THEY JUST STEAL AND COPY.
• Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China - NYTimes.com - “Unless they turn themselves into a Chinese company, Google could not win,” she said. “The company has clearly put its foot down and said enough is enough.”
• Haitians Confront Devastation of Quake - NYTimes.com - The quake, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, caused the collapse of the National Palace, leveled countless shantytown dwellings and brought more suffering to a nation that was already the hemisphere’s poorest and most disaster-prone. - WOW. I FEEL BAD FOR THE HAITIANS
• Official Google Blog: A new approach to China - We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China. - WOW GOOGLE TAKING ON CHINA

These are my links for January 11th:

• LaHood: Auto bailouts were a good investment - MarketWatch - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the Detroit auto show on Monday by telling reporters that the government's commitment to the car industry was "a good investment of taxpayer dollars." - UM, YEAH, RIGHT.
• Geithner Has Support of Obama, Democratic Lawmakers, Aides Say - Bloomberg.com - Asked yesterday for comment, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he stood by his earlier statements that the president had full confidence in Geithner. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, said “Secretary Geithner enjoys the strong support of the Senate Democratic caucus.” - ATROCIOUS!
• Stocks, Commodities Advance as China Imports Soar; Dollar Falls - Bloomberg.com - “The market doesn’t actually care if more or less Americans have jobs, it’s watching for rate hike signals,” Bill Blain, the joint head of fixed income at Matrix Corporate Capital in London, wrote in a research note. “Other aspects, such as U.S. retail sales or this morning’s dramatic growth in China’s exports, are equally valid indicators of just how strongly the global economy is recovering.” - YES, THE MARKETS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE USA, IT JUST CARES ABOUT $$$$, LIKE IT SHOULD!
• Chavez Devalues Bolivar 50%, First Time Since 2005 (Update1) - Bloomberg.com - Chavez said the bolivar will be devalued to 4.3 per dollar from 2.15 per dollar for most imports. A second, subsidized peg of 2.60 bolivars per dollar will be used for importing food, medicine and machinery intended to boost the economy’s competitiveness. - HA! SOCIALISM = SUCKS.
• New York Seeks National Effort to Curb Salt in Food - NYTimes.com - The plan, for which the city claims support from health agencies in other cities and states, sets a goal of reducing the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food by 25 percent over the next five years. - FOR A PALEO TYPE PERSON, TOO MUCH SALT IS DEADLY. I'M SURPRISED BY HOW MUCH SALT IS IN PROCESSED FOODS>
• Pimco move to sell gilts raises spectre of a UK sovereign debt crisis - Telegraph - The American investment group said it will be a net seller of UK Government bonds this year, at the very point when the Bank of England brings its £200bn programme of purchases to and end and the Treasury attempts to raise unprecedented sums through the capital markets. - I THINK WE'LL SEE EITHER A DEFAULT IN THE POUND STERLING OR THE USD.

These are my links for January 8th:

• http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/07/1425242/8-of-Your-DNA-Comes-From-a-Virus?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+Slashdot&utm_content=Google+Reader - A recent study on the 8 percent of human DNA that is derived from viruses may show a cause of cell mutation and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders, according to an article by The University of Texas at Arlington biology professor Cédric Feschotte published in the Jan. 7, 2010, issue of Nature magazine.
• Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Gives Herself B-Minus Grade in First Year - Bloomberg.com - Bartz, who marks her one-year anniversary as CEO next week, is striving to keep Yahoo’s 15-year-old site relevant in an era of Twitter and Facebook. Yahoo’s sales have fallen for four straight quarters, and its stock trailed the Nasdaq Composite Index in the past year. Bartz expects Yahoo’s sales and profit to grow in 2010 as it makes acquisitions and improves products. - DO THEY EVER GIVE THEMSELVES A "D" OR AN "F"?