Since84
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Post by Since84 on Jun 10, 2016 2:14:49 GMT -8
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2016 6:22:04 GMT -8
I am by no means knowledgable in AI. But all these articles about Apple falling behind in developing AI got me thinking, a somewhat dangerous proposition.
Is it possible that there is confusion regarding Siri's intelligence due to the fact that Siri is not integrated with more apps and not available to developers? For apps she is tied to I don't have issues when I ask questions that I know she has access to the information.
Just a random thought.
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Post by chinacat on Jun 10, 2016 6:37:12 GMT -8
!!!WARNING!!! Boring personal story follows; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
The esteemed Prof. Negroponte is a primary reason why you must suffer my participation in this forum. Reading his articles in the Journal of the AACM about the work of his Architecture Machine group at MIT was the first thing that brought computer graphics into my life. In 1976, he declined my application for grad work in his AM group, so I called him and asked where I could get a job doing similar things. He graciously pointed me to the nascent CAD/CAM industry in the Boston area (which at that time was still all "green screen" technology), and I ended up getting job that gave me at least as much knowledge about computer graphics as grad school would have, including writing software for their first bit-mapped display (2 planes, 4 shades of grey!) and GPU. Naturally, as soon as Apple computers came out I knew that they represented the future direction of the industry. Without the debt of grad school to overcome, I had a small amount of savings for my first investment in our favorite fruit company, and was able to make a series of early small investments in AAPL, which blessed me with my current favorable cost basis.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled moaning.
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Post by mrentropy on Jun 10, 2016 6:48:15 GMT -8
!!!WARNING!!! Boring personal story follows; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! The esteemed Prof. Negroponte is a primary reason why you must suffer my participation in this forum. Reading his articles in the Journal of the AACM about the work of his Architecture Machine group at MIT was the first thing that brought computer graphics into my life. In 1976, he declined my application for grad work in his AM group, so I called him and asked where I could get a job doing similar things. He graciously pointed me to the nascent CAD/CAM industry in the Boston area (which at that time was still all "green screen" technology), and I ended up getting job that gave me at least as much knowledge about computer graphics as grad school would have, including writing software for their first bit-mapped display (2 planes, 4 shades of grey!) and GPU. Naturally, as soon as Apple computers came out I knew that they represented the future direction of the industry. Without the debt of grad school to overcome, I had a small amount of savings for my first investment in our favorite fruit company, and was able to make a series of early small investments in AAPL, which blessed me with my current favorable cost basis. We now return you to our regularly scheduled moaning. Thanks for sharing! I got my start in computer graphics by summer interning for a company called Alliant computer systems in Boston. The had an SGI 3130 sitting in a lab that I learned how to use to write GL (pre OpenGL) in C. That lead to a job at SGI and ultimately a career in Visual Effects. A coworker of mine had invested in Apple and the burgeoning success of the iPod piqued my interest. I started accumulating and that's how I got started.
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2016 7:08:20 GMT -8
!!!WARNING!!! Boring personal story follows; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! The esteemed Prof. Negroponte is a primary reason why you must suffer my participation in this forum. Reading his articles in the Journal of the AACM about the work of his Architecture Machine group at MIT was the first thing that brought computer graphics into my life. In 1976, he declined my application for grad work in his AM group, so I called him and asked where I could get a job doing similar things. He graciously pointed me to the nascent CAD/CAM industry in the Boston area (which at that time was still all "green screen" technology), and I ended up getting job that gave me at least as much knowledge about computer graphics as grad school would have, including writing software for their first bit-mapped display (2 planes, 4 shades of grey!) and GPU. Naturally, as soon as Apple computers came out I knew that they represented the future direction of the industry. Without the debt of grad school to overcome, I had a small amount of savings for my first investment in our favorite fruit company, and was able to make a series of early small investments in AAPL, which blessed me with my current favorable cost basis. We now return you to our regularly scheduled moaning. Negroponte's loss your gain.
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Post by mrentropy on Jun 10, 2016 9:16:42 GMT -8
Don't look now, but APPL is pushing the highs of the day. I'm surprised it is able to get over 99, but the real Call wall is 100 (in case you didn't catch the hint with this week's price action.)
In other news, Dougie Kass is once again under water on his short.
Bless his little heart.
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2016 9:47:25 GMT -8
Don't look now, but APPL is pushing the highs of the day. I'm surprised it is able to get over 99, but the real Call wall is 100 (in case you didn't catch the hint with this week's price action.) In other news, Dougie Kass is once again under water on his short. Bless his little heart. Unless volume picks up it appears max pain is the story today.
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Post by mrentropy on Jun 10, 2016 10:03:25 GMT -8
And there we go. I'll keep my mouth shut from now on.
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Post by mrentropy on Jun 10, 2016 10:20:54 GMT -8
Although this seems general market driven and we are holding up better than most. Nice to see AMZN react so well to its "upgrade". Here I was thinking it was just AAPL that responded that way.
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2016 11:41:02 GMT -8
I have a plan and I need everyone's help.
Let's start a power to the BAS (Battered AAPL Syndrome) group. We need a lot, I mean a lot of participants.
On days like today which appears a likely pin @ $99, we organize a group of say 50,000 participants. The call wall is at $100 so we spread the word to each participant to place orders for AAPL at $100.10. Each participant patiently waits at their keyboards with the orders loaded up ready to go. With exactly 1 second left before market close everyone simultaneously enters the limit order, or if they choose multiple limit orders. Should guarantee the closing price is above $100/ share.
It is left up to each participant to buy the appropriate calls or sell the appropriate spreads, whatever, to ensure maximum profit rather than sit idly by for max pain.
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Since84
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Post by Since84 on Jun 10, 2016 12:48:00 GMT -8
!!!WARNING!!! Boring personal story follows; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! The esteemed Prof. Negroponte is a primary reason why you must suffer my participation in this forum. Reading his articles in the Journal of the AACM about the work of his Architecture Machine group at MIT was the first thing that brought computer graphics into my life. In 1976, he declined my application for grad work in his AM group, so I called him and asked where I could get a job doing similar things. He graciously pointed me to the nascent CAD/CAM industry in the Boston area (which at that time was still all "green screen" technology), and I ended up getting job that gave me at least as much knowledge about computer graphics as grad school would have, including writing software for their first bit-mapped display (2 planes, 4 shades of grey!) and GPU. Naturally, as soon as Apple computers came out I knew that they represented the future direction of the industry. Without the debt of grad school to overcome, I had a small amount of savings for my first investment in our favorite fruit company, and was able to make a series of early small investments in AAPL, which blessed me with my current favorable cost basis. We now return you to our regularly scheduled moaning. Have you thanked Negroponte?
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Post by mark on Jun 10, 2016 13:02:03 GMT -8
I have a plan and I need everyone's help. Let's start a power to the BAS (Battered AAPL Syndrome) group. We need a lot, I mean a lot of participants. On days like today which appears a likely pin @ $99, we organize a group of say 50,000 participants. The call wall is at $100 so we spread the word to each participant to place orders for AAPL at $100.10. Each participant patiently waits at their keyboards with the orders loaded up ready to go. With exactly 1 second left before market close everyone simultaneously enters the limit order, or if they choose multiple limit orders. Should guarantee the closing price is above $100/ share. It is left up to each participant to buy the appropriate calls or sell the appropriate spreads, whatever, to ensure maximum profit rather than sit idly by for max pain. I'm not sure how this would work. First of all, getting 50,000 people would be tough. But even if you get 50,000 people, and even if each put in a limit order at 100.10 for 1 share, or for 10 shares, or whatever. If you place a bid at 100.10, but the ask is 99.10, you will probably be filled at whatever the market price is at the time ... maybe 99.11, and perhaps the ask would climb somewhat in that last second, but as long as there are 50,000 (or 500,000) shares available at prices between 99.11 and some price below 100.10, they will execute at the ask price. So if there are 500,000 shares at asks between 99.11 and 99.43, then the last of the group of 50,000 will be executed at 99.43, and that's where the stock will close (barring some other larger trades that may happen "at the close").
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Post by Since84 on Jun 10, 2016 13:04:24 GMT -8
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Post by macster on Jun 10, 2016 14:24:43 GMT -8
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Post by rickag on Jun 10, 2016 14:45:48 GMT -8
I have a plan and I need everyone's help. Let's start a power to the BAS (Battered AAPL Syndrome) group. We need a lot, I mean a lot of participants. On days like today which appears a likely pin @ $99, we organize a group of say 50,000 participants. The call wall is at $100 so we spread the word to each participant to place orders for AAPL at $100.10. Each participant patiently waits at their keyboards with the orders loaded up ready to go. With exactly 1 second left before market close everyone simultaneously enters the limit order, or if they choose multiple limit orders. Should guarantee the closing price is above $100/ share. It is left up to each participant to buy the appropriate calls or sell the appropriate spreads, whatever, to ensure maximum profit rather than sit idly by for max pain. I'm not sure how this would work. First of all, getting 50,000 people would be tough. But even if you get 50,000 people, and even if each put in a limit order at 100.10 for 1 share, or for 10 shares, or whatever. If you place a bid at 100.10, but the ask is 99.10, you will probably be filled at whatever the market price is at the time ... maybe 99.11, and perhaps the ask would climb somewhat in that last second, but as long as there are 50,000 (or 500,000) shares available at prices between 99.11 and some price below 100.10, they will execute at the ask price. So if there are 500,000 shares at asks between 99.11 and 99.43, then the last of the group of 50,000 will be executed at 99.43, and that's where the stock will close (barring some other larger trades that may happen "at the close"). My post was meant as a joke, my bad, it must not be funny.
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Post by mark on Jun 10, 2016 15:40:51 GMT -8
I'm not sure how this would work. First of all, getting 50,000 people would be tough. But even if you get 50,000 people, and even if each put in a limit order at 100.10 for 1 share, or for 10 shares, or whatever. If you place a bid at 100.10, but the ask is 99.10, you will probably be filled at whatever the market price is at the time ... maybe 99.11, and perhaps the ask would climb somewhat in that last second, but as long as there are 50,000 (or 500,000) shares available at prices between 99.11 and some price below 100.10, they will execute at the ask price. So if there are 500,000 shares at asks between 99.11 and 99.43, then the last of the group of 50,000 will be executed at 99.43, and that's where the stock will close (barring some other larger trades that may happen "at the close"). My post was meant as a joke, my bad, it must not be funny. 50,000 is funny. What's not funny is that sometimes, with thinly traded issues, there are folks in the trade that play such games all the time. It's nearly impossible with very liquid stocks (like Apple), but thinly traded ones are pretty easy to play with bids and asks to make demand or supply appear to be there when it might not really be there.
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Post by macster on Jun 10, 2016 23:17:52 GMT -8
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