Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

GDB2222

Oh, and like PN, people management is not a strong point!

kabayiri

Can any NPs recommend MSE aligned tourist options when visiting NYC?

We are off in a few weeks, and I am sure we will have to compromise on what we see, timewise.

I've done the Empire State before. Does anyone have any experience of the Rockerfeller, for example?

GDB2222

kabayiri wrote: »

Can any NPs recommend MSE aligned tourist options when visiting NYC?

We are off in a few weeks, and I am sure we will have to compromise on what we see, timewise.

I've done the Empire State before. Does anyone have any experience of the Rockerfeller, for example?

MSE options in NYC - take the Staten Island ferry, for a free cruise in the harbour past the Statue of Liberty. It's also worth going to Governor's Island. MoMa is simply amazing!

kabayiri

GDB2222 wrote: »

Let me see. I like maths and science. I understand finance. I'm quite handy at DIY. Good with computers, including programming. I'm slightly autistic, but not too far on the spectrum.
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Have you any experience in test automation?

There is an awful lot of legacy software out there which still needs to function correctly, and be proven to do so, but won't attract further development resources.

That's an area ripe for regression suite development.

It's tricky for an individual to make inroads though, and gain work. I do know very successful freelance security specialists, but that's even more niche.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

Let me see. I like maths and science. I understand finance. I'm quite handy at DIY. Good with computers, including programming. I'm slightly autistic, but not too far on the spectrum.

Capital is more difficult to pin down. If the risk profile is right, I would try to find the capital.

Could you write a use-at-home quant trading program for day traders?

Idea would be to replicate what quants do but in the home. Allow people to take a large dataset (via Google/Yahoo finance for example) and run various ideas through it in order to find trading strategies.

Maybe it could be run as a crowd thing where people put up some trading capital into a pool and go away and run strategies before coming back to the group with winning strategies. Others in the group could confirm the back testing and then a portion of the group's money could be allocated to trading the strategy with the person who came up with the idea getting an extra share of profits. You get a few bps for running the platform.

mumps

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you decided to set up a self employed business now, what would it be?

I ask this because I am utterly bored with what I have been doing for the last forty years, but I am not ready to retire.

I have thought of setting up as a professional granny. I am on call, for free, to look after sick grandchildren who can't go to school, or get sick at school, or who need to see dentist/doctor/optician when parents are at work or pick up when parents are held up in traffic or whatever. I thought I could offer this service to other families at school, subscription for x number of calls plus reasonable call out charge for additional calls. I need to make the effort to work out a reasonable charge.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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Idea would be to replicate what quants do but in the home. Allow people to take a large dataset (via Google/Yahoo finance for example) and run various ideas through it in order to find trading strategies.
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I worked on AI based planning systems back in the 80s. The interest then was in running scenario based models to hypothesise new "worlds" from applying rules to existing base conditions.

It does have some advantages when it comes to analysing a problem space where there are multiple conflicting factors present.

I could bore people to death with a scheduling analogy here, but I don't want to kill the thread!

michaels

kabayiri wrote: »

I worked on AI based planning systems back in the 80s. The interest then was in running scenario based models to hypothesise new "worlds" from applying rules to existing base conditions.

It does have some advantages when it comes to analysing a problem space where there are multiple conflicting factors present.

I could bore people to death with a scheduling analogy here, but I don't want to kill the thread!

You'll be talking about travelling salesmen next....

The old person sitting / child sitting suggested by PN and mumps are both services that my not quite pa could organise for you.

kabayiri

michaels wrote: »

You'll be talking about travelling salesmen next....

The old person sitting / child sitting suggested by PN and mumps are both services that my not quite pa could organise for you.

I wish I was business savvy / entrepreneurial , but alas I'm not - just like millions of others.

I'm not sure why I should even profer advice.

Techno-types like me spend millions inventing a pen which can work in zero gravity.

Pragmatic Russians just use a pencil.

Spirit_2

Mse dilemma.
I posted that I had put a deposit on a car last week. An ex demonstrator from a main dealer .It was conditional on a test drive, OH is test driving it tomorrow and I expected to go go along to hand over my debit card and that would be it.

OH has had details emailed through of the identical car also demonstrator, same over the top spec and colour and £3000 cheaper he has arranged to see it tomorrow morning. Main dealer in neighbouring county near PN.

I do not renege on deals and feel a bit wobbly. Salesman did not have to do any work to sell to us ( another main dealer did that but would have to order in a new car (lower spec that met needs and was in our price range) and there was a relatively long lead time (for someone who wants to get on the road asap).

WWNP do?