Re: [FRIAM] Deafening silence re downgrade -

2011-08-11 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Its very well known that (Equity) Markets are often schizophrenic (oscillating between manic optimism and pessimism). This is a very good time to make money by taking advantage of volatility (and assuming unsystematic risk). PS: Is there negative schizophrenia too ? On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:04

[FRIAM] Hijinks Ensue-

2011-08-11 Thread Victoria Hughes
BBC News - Animal's genetic code redesigned The first few sentences- Researchers say they have created the first ever animal with artificial information in its genetic code. The technique, they say, could give biologists atom-by-atom control over the molecules in living organisms. One

Re: [FRIAM] Hijinks Ensue-

2011-08-11 Thread Roger Critchlow
That's very cute, they've engineered a transfer RNA for a messenger RNA quadruplet. http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7566.full -- rec -- On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.comwrote: BBC News - Animal's genetic code

Re: [FRIAM] Sage Introduction

2011-08-11 Thread Owen Densmore
Well, as much as it may look like an application, Sage really is an IDE for Python + All the existing open source math packages. So for looking at a spreadsheet, the numpy package has an importer that does a great job of CSV's. After loading the CSV as an array, you can do a LOT with it.