Sunday, July 26, 2009

R&D E-trading game has arrived

So...The long awaited e-trading game has finally been officially released today! Writing the algorithm for the stock prices had been indeed extremely challenging and fun. I'm finally beginning to understand why mathematicians are so damn interested in functions that are continuous and yet un-differentiable.
The quest for such functions plagued my days of brainstorming. There were so many bs I had to deal with just to get it up. The MIT script server, being free, is very very very hard to configure and setup for deployment. Although, I have to thank the SIPB team for being very punctual and resourceful with my questions. I don't know about the students, I am personally very....very....VERY excited about this project. I really hope to blow it up into an intricate experiment: non-cooperative/cooperative solutions and such. I'm also hoping to hold an online auction at some point to test out auctioning theories in economics.

On another side note...I was just informed very recently about a peculiar lawsuit that took my favorite brand of cold medicine, Airborne, to court for consumer fraud...You can see where this is going. I have long been an endorser/consumer of their product - thanks to my spineless immune system. I have literally -*5*- empty cans (each can holds 10 tablets) of Airborne sitting next to my bed right now... My favorite flavor is zesty lime (you should try it, not for the medicinal purposes just for the flavor). After a lot of frustrated "but..." and "why..." and "...am so stupid!", I finally came to the realization of the truth: there is no spoon, jk, cure-all medicine to "boost" your immune system. I remember debating heatedly with my roommate about the efficacy of airborne. *Back then*, I held to my ground and refused to even consider the possibility of the medicine as a fraud...I was wondering how a elementary teacher get special biological/medical knowledge over night and develop a wonder drug presumed to be more potent than the million-dollar-drugs that come out of Merck or Pfiser. sigh...all I have to say is: "fooled again!". Let this be a warning to those of you believers still out there. Don't be fooled, just buying regular vitamin tablets will do just as well as airborne.

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